Kon-Tiki
Kon-Tiki is a Dutch play for young people by Tone Brulin (1926-2019)[1]
The title also found as Kontiki.
Contents
The original text
Am educational play about eight young people who undertake an improvised performance about the explorer Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002) and the Kon-Tiki expedition of 1947[2].
The Dutch play was published as Kon-tiki: hoger secundair onderwijs by De Sikkel in 1973 (credited to by Tone Brulin and A. Fruithof) as part of a series called Toneel in de klas ("theatre in the class").
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Afrikaans as Improvisasie Kontiki ("Improvisation Kontiki") by Ben Dehaeck (1922-2017).
The text is unpublished, but a typed copy is held in the archive of the Drama Department at Stellenbosch University
Performance history in South Africa
1983: Performed in Afrikaans by drama students and/or school children from the Drama Group of the Cloetesville Senior Secondary School (the group renamed the Breughel Teatergroep in that year), and directed by Dehaeck. The production won the first prize at the annual Department of Culture's Theatre Festival.
Sources
https://theaterencyclopedie.nl/wiki/Tone_Brulin
Ben Dehaeck. Improvisasie Kontiki, a typed copy held in the archive of the Drama Department at Stellenbosch University
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_expedition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl
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