Laat die Kerse Brand!
Laat die Kerse Brand! is an Afrikaans nativity play[1] ("'n Kersspel" = lit: "A Christmas Play") by Gerhard J. Beukes (1913 - 1998).
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The original text
A one-act play about a mother who hands over her child to the soldiers of Herod in order to rescue the baby Jesus.
First performed in 1945 and first published in the collection Laat die Kerse Brand! en Ander Eenbedrywe ("Let the Candles Burn! and Other One-act Plays") by J.L. van Schaik, 1945.
Also included in a range of play collections over the years, including Kerse Teen die Wind: Tien Eenbedrywe (1950), Skerm en Masker (1958), Vyfling by Nasboek (1966); Viertal (1968), Kortgesprek (1978) and Kollig: Vyf Eenbedrywe Tafelberg (1982).
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativity_play
Copy of a catalogue (handwritten by various hands) of the F.C.L. Bosman collection held at the Nasionale Afrikaanse Letterkunde Museum en Navorsingsentrum (NALN) in Bloemfontein.
Google Books (1953 print)[2]
J.C. Kannemeyer, Geskiedenis van die Afrikaanse literatuur 2. Academica, Pretoria / Cape Town / Johannesburg 1983, p45[3]
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