Een Oujaarsavond

Een Oujaarsavond ("One old Year's eve") is a play in three acts by Mello Dikema (1848-1908)

The original text
Written for the Rederijkerskamer Braga in Groningen, and published in Groningen by J.B. Huber, 1872. (His biography dates the play 1870.)

Performance history in South Africa
1880: Performed by Aurora II in the Athenaeum Hall, Cape Town, on 27 July, with Het Bedrogen Drietal (Gillissen) as afterpiece.

1882: Performed, as part of a benefit performance for the widow and children of ex-President T.F. Burgers of the Republic of the Transvaal, by Aurora II in the Oddfellows Hall, Cape Town, on 8 June, with Het Bedrogen Drietal (Gillissen) as afterpiece.

1882: Performed, as part of a benefit performance for the Paarl Concordia Scherpschutters Vereniging (the "Paarl Concordia Sharpshooters Acssciation") by Aurora II in the Oddfellows Hall, Cape Town, on 13 June, with Het Bedrogen Drietal (Gillissen) as afterpiece.

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