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''[[Kon-Tiki]]'' is a [[Dutch]] play for young people by [[Tone Brulin]] (1926-)

The title also found as '''''[[Kontiki]]'''''.

==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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_expedition]. 

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The text is unpublished, but a typed copy is held in the archive of the Drama Department at [[Stellenbosch University]]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 ==

[[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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