Het Dansende Ezeltje
Het Dansende Ezeltje is a full-length Dutch children's play by Erik Vos (1929-)[1]
(The title written in lower script as Het dansende ezeltje in Dutch publications).
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The original text
Described as a "toneelspel met liedjes voor kinderen", the play was Vos's first dramatic work and is apparently a full-length adaptation of a one-act play by Léon Chancerel (1886 1965)[2]
Written in the style of the Italian commedia dell'arte, which Chancerel championed, it tells of a donkey is stolen by two scoundrels, who disguise themselves afterwards in order to sell the stolen donkey back to its original owner.
The Dutch version published by Heijnis, 1965.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into English from the Dutch by Bill Honeywood as The Dancing Donkey.[3]
Translated into Afrikaans from the Dutch by Wilma Stockenström as Die Dansende Donkie.
Performance History in South Africa
1966: Performed in Afrikaans by PACOFS as Die Dansende Donkie, directed by with Henk Hugo, Wilson Dunster, Francesca Bantock, Marie Pentz.
1967/8: Performed in Afrikaans by PACT Youth Theatre as Die Dansende Donkie, directed by with [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]].
Sources
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Chancerel
https://origintheatrical.com.au/work/7055
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Vos
https://theaterencyclopedie.nl/wiki/Erik_Vos:_Repertoire_-_Regies
George Ballot scrapbooks. (Provisionally held in the ESAT Archive, with the kind permission of Prof Muller Ballot[4] and consulted 2024-1925).
PACOFS Drama 25 Years, 1963-1988
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