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[[Tot Leering en Vermaak]] ("For learning and entertainment") was the [[motto]] under which [[Het Hollandsch Liefhebbery Genootschap]] ("the Dutch amateur company")  performed in Cape Town (1803-1804).  

This was the oldest known [[Dutch]] theatre company in the Cape.  While ''[[Zaïre]]'' by Voltaire may have been its very fist production (on 29 January, 1803), its first (stated) performance was ''[[De Papegaay]]'' (Von Kotzebue) on March 5 1803.  This was followed ''inter alia'' by a performance on 18 July 1803 (unknown play) and one on 24 September (''[[De Elfde Junius]]'' by Holberg). Their last official performance was apparently a performance of  ''[[Bramarbas, or De Snoevende Officier]]'' (a [[Dutch]] translation of ''[[Jacob von Tyboe, eller Den Stortalende Soldat]]'', also by Holberg) on May 18, 1804, performed as a charity event in aid of the burnt down Drostdy of Stellenbosch.  

From 1804 to 1809 there were no new [[Dutch]] theatre companies at the Cape.  [[Tot Leering en Vermaak]] can most likely be seen as the predecessor of what later became known as the influential [[Dutch]] company [[Tot Nut en Vermaak]] in 1809. 

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== Sources ==

[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928[http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 81-2

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