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''[[De Kalkoen van Breda, of Menig Voordeel Komt Onverwacht]]'' ("The Turkey of Breda, or many advantages come unexpectedly") is a [[Dutch]] farce with music, by Carel Alexander Van Ray (1780-1842)[http://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=ray_001].  

Often cited simply as '''''[[De Kalkoen van Breda]]'''''. 

== Original text ==

Partly based on the one-act French [[vaudeville]]-style comedy ''[[La Bonne Aubaine]]'' by Jean Baptiste Radet (first performed at the Théatre du Vaudeville on 28 January, 1793). The earliest production of Van Ray's play found was in Leyden in 1826, but the text was first published in Amsterdam by Abraham Mars in 1816, and a second edition, by Van Kesteren, was published in 1829.

== South African performances ==

1829: Produced in the [[De Liefhebbery Toneel]], Cape Town, South Africa  by [[Tot Nut en Vermaak]] on 6 June  alongside ''[[De Lasteraar]]'' (Von Kotzebue), 

1831: Produced in the [[De Liefhebbery Toneel]], Cape Town, South Africa by [[Tot Nut en Vermaak]] on 28 May 1831 (as afterpiece to ''[[Robert , of De Struikroovers]]'' by Lamartélière, tr by Witsen Geysbeek).

1844:  Produced on 2 August by [[Het Privaat Hollandsch Tooneellievend Gezelschap]] in the [[Roeland Street Theatre]], Cape Town, as afterpiece to ''[[Eleonora van Rosalba, of De Puinhopen van Paluzzi]]'' 

1846: Performed in Cape Town in [[Dutch]] by  [[Tot Nut en Vermaak en Door Yver Vruchtbaar]] on 30 April, in the [[Roeland Street Theatre]], as afterpiece to ''[[Volsan, of De Menschenhater Door Tegenspoed]]'' (Villenhoven). 

1851: Produced on 24 July  by [[Tot Oefening en Vermaak]] in the [[Garrison Theatre]], Cape Town, as afterpiece to ''[[De Toveres Sidonia]]'' (Zschokke), as a charity performance.

1873:  Produced on 23 October  by [[De Eendracht]] in the [[Oddfellows Hall]], Cape Town, as afterpiece to ''[[Robert, of De Struikrovers]]'' (Geysbeek), interspersed with a "Saizoensdans" ("seasonal dance").

== Sources ==

Facsimile text of ''De Kalkoen van Breda'', ''[[Google Books]]''[http://books.google.co.za/books?id=RTVTAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false]

[[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.241-243, 375, 447-455, 497

[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p.448


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