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''[[De Keukenhelden]]'' ("Heroes of the kitchen") is a one-act [[Dutch]] farce by C. van Foreest.  


== The original text ==

Based on ''[[Les Héros de Cuisine, ou L'enfant de l'Amour]]'', a "tragédie burlesque en 1 acte et en vers" by Jacques André Jacquelin.  First performed in Paris, on 2 March 1799 and published by Fages in the same year. Also by Delavigne in  1815.  According to [[Charles Etienne Boniface]] (''cit.'' [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: p. 276), the French play was itself a parody of Voltaire's five act tragedy  ''[[Tancrède]]'' (First performed at the Théâtre de la Rue des Fossés in Paris, on 9 March, 1760.) 

The [[Dutch]] text was published anonymously in Amsterdam by Pieter Johannes Uylenbroek, in 1799.

==Translations and adaptations==


== Performance history in South Africa ==


1823: Performed in [[Dutch]]  by [[Charles Etienne Boniface|Boniface's]] company [[Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense]] in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town theatre as  on 20 March, with ''[[Het Geweten]]'' (Iffland).

== Sources ==

http://telechargerpdf2017.info/livre/B001C74KEM-les-heros-de-cuisine

Facsimile of the  French text (4th edition, 1823), Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=IEJoAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=Les+h%C3%A9ros+de+cuisine,+ou+L'enfant+de+l'amour&source=bl&ots=_yIylzIAAk&sig=LnKuzQVDPRmxbPj-ocrFWUoSY3Y&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjlqMzN_KzSAhWpJ8AKHYI7CNsQ6AEIQDAH#v=onepage&q=Les%20h%C3%A9ros%20de%20cuisine%2C%20ou%20L'enfant%20de%20l'amour&f=false]

Facsimile of the 1799 [[Dutch]] text[http://resources4.kb.nl/resources403/dpo/2787/pdf/dpo_2787.pdf]

http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/Dutch/Ceneton/CenetonIncipits.html

[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika'', Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 275-6

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