Tatsie
Tatsie is an anthropomorphic play text by an unnamed author.
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The original text
The play appears to be a work written for performance by children or puppets, and is set in Southern Africa, featuring a range of speaking animals among its characters. The Afrikaans dialogue also utilises some Khoi and San terminology.
A set of 9 copies of the text were found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department's theatre archives and 1 copy is now held in the Performing Arts Research Collection (PARC) at the Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation, with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
To date no record of performances of the play have been found.
Sources
Copy of the text held in the Performing Arts Research Collection (PARC) at the Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation, Stellenbosch.
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