Jan Alleman
Alleman or Jan Alleman is an Afrikaans expression referring to the "common man" ("common joe" in America) or "everyman", and has often been used as an Afrikaans translation for the English play title Everyman or the Dutch Elckerlijc. (Other versions found for this concept in Afrikaans are Elkeman and Iedereen.)
(Not to be confused with "Allemand", the French word for "German")
A number of theatre and film texts have therefore used the term in their titles, including:
The term has also been used as the name of a character in some works, e.g. the play Putsonderwater by Bartho Smit,
Also used as a pseudonym by writers, critics and actors on occasion, for example:
The theatre caretaker J. Stigling used R.S. Alleman as his stage name.
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