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 == Sources ==
-[[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1980. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage",  in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
+[[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage",  in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
 [[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. 462-3

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 Presumably first performed at the Hoftheater,  in Leipzig in 1800, and  published in Leipzig in 1800. It is not often cited among his better works.
 (Confusingly: Vulpius also produced the French one-act opera ''[[Le Secret]]'' (Hoffman and Solié, 1796),  under the title ''[[Das Geheimnis]]'' the Hoftheater,  in Leipzig in 1805.)
 == Translations and adaptations ==

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 == Performances in South Africa ==
-: Performed as ''[[Het Geheim]]'' on Tuesday 12 June by [[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]] in the [[Garrison Theatre]], Cape Town. It was stipulated as a tragedy in five acts and credited to "the author of ''[[Rinaldo Rinaldini, The Robber Captain|Rinaldini]]''" (i.e. Vulpius).  Also performed were  ''[[De Helleveeg]]'' (Loosjes) and ''[[Het Groot Ballet]]''. The evening was in support of the "Patriotic Fund" for the Crimean War (see ''[[Balaclava Benefit Performances]]''). The production was possibly repeated on 28 June. [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] (1928,: 462) does however suggest this may have been ''[[Het Geheim]]'' by F.B.Hoffman.
+: Performed as ''[[Het Geheim]]'' on Tuesday 12 June by [[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]] in the [[Garrison Theatre]], Cape Town. It was stipulated as a tragedy in five acts and credited to "the author of ''[[Rinaldo Rinaldini, The Robber Captain|Rinaldini]]''" (i.e. Vulpius).  Also performed were  ''[[De Helleveeg]]'' (Loosjes) and ''[[Het Groot Ballet]]''. The evening was in support of the "Patriotic Fund" for the Crimean War (see ''[[Balaclava Benefit Performances]]''). The production was possibly repeated on 28 June. ([[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: 462,  does mention ''[[Het Geheim]]'', a one act Dutch version of ''[[Le Secret]]'' by F.B.Hoffman, but this is unlikely to have the play performed.)
 From here on there is some uncertainty about any further productions of this work in South Africa. From 1867 onwards [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980), and presumably the company ([[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]]),  claim that the play performed by various incarnations of [[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]] between 1855 and 1910 was a "tragedy in five acts". If this is correct, it does suggest that the play produced '''was''' in actual fact this 5-act tragedy by Vulvius, and not ''[[Un Secret]]'' ("A Secret") , a '''three act''' play by Fournier and Arnould,  as Bosman states in his 1980 history.  (The [[Dutch]] version is also a three act play.)

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 == Performances in South Africa ==
-: Performed as ''[[Het Geheim]]'' on Tuesday 12 June by [[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]] in the [[Garrison Theatre]], Cape Town. It was stipulated as a tragedy in five acts and credited to "the author of ''[[Rinaldo Rinaldini, The Robber Captain|Rinaldini]]''" (i.e. Vulpius).  Also performed were  ''[[De Helleveeg]]'' (Loosjes) and ''[[Het Groot Ballet]]''. The evening was in support of the "Patriotic Fund" for the Crimean War (see ''[[Balaclava Benefit Performances]]''). The production was possibly repeated on 28 June.
+: Performed as ''[[Het Geheim]]'' on Tuesday 12 June by [[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]] in the [[Garrison Theatre]], Cape Town. It was stipulated as a tragedy in five acts and credited to "the author of ''[[Rinaldo Rinaldini, The Robber Captain|Rinaldini]]''" (i.e. Vulpius).  Also performed were  ''[[De Helleveeg]]'' (Loosjes) and ''[[Het Groot Ballet]]''. The evening was in support of the "Patriotic Fund" for the Crimean War (see ''[[Balaclava Benefit Performances]]''). The production was possibly repeated on 28 June. [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] (1928,: 462) does however suggest this may have been ''[[Het Geheim]]'' by F.B.Hoffman.
 From here on there is some uncertainty about any further productions of this work in South Africa. From 1867 onwards [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980), and presumably the company ([[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]]),  claim that the play performed by various incarnations of [[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]] between 1855 and 1910 was a "tragedy in five acts". If this is correct, it does suggest that the play produced '''was''' in actual fact this 5-act tragedy by Vulvius, and not ''[[Un Secret]]'' ("A Secret") , a '''three act''' play by Fournier and Arnould,  as Bosman states in his 1980 history.  (The [[Dutch]] version is also a three act play.)

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 : ''[[Het Geheim]]'' produced  by [[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]] at the new [[Opera House]], Cape Town on 7 July, with ''[[De Sint Nicolaas Avond, of Het Bezoek door den Schoorsteen]]'' (Kup).
-: ''[[Het Geheim]]'' produced  as the last production by [[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]] under the leadership of the 71 year old [[J.C. Combrink|Johan Combrink]], at the [[Good Hope Theatre]] 2 June and repeated on 4 June, followed by a ballet by 16 children, accompanied by the musical corps of [[F.H. Boonzaier]]. The critic [[D.C. Boonzaier]] wrote a devastating criticism of what was apparently a ludicrous melodrama, badly presented, though other critics weren't as negative.
+: ''[[Het Geheim]]'' produced  as the last production by [[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]] under the leadership of the 71 year old [[J.C. Combrink|Johan Combrink]], at the [[Good Hope Theatre]] 2 June and repeated on 4 June, followed by a ballet by 16 children cheoreographed by [[Jno Combrink]] and  accompanied by the musical corps of [[F.H. Boonzaier]]. The critic [[D.C. Boonzaier]] wrote a devastating criticism of what was apparently a ludicrous melodrama, badly presented, though other critics weren't as negative.
 == Sources ==

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 : Performed as ''[[Het Geheim]]'' on Tuesday 12 June by [[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]] in the [[Garrison Theatre]], Cape Town. It was stipulated as a tragedy in five acts and credited to "the author of ''[[Rinaldo Rinaldini, The Robber Captain|Rinaldini]]''" (i.e. Vulpius).  Also performed were  ''[[De Helleveeg]]'' (Loosjes) and ''[[Het Groot Ballet]]''. The evening was in support of the "Patriotic Fund" for the Crimean War (see ''[[Balaclava Benefit Performances]]''). The production was possibly repeated on 28 June.
-From here on there is some uncertainty about any further productions of this work in South Africa. From 1867 onwards [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980), and presumably the company ([[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]]),  claim that the play performed by various incarnations of [[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]] between 1855 and 1910 was a "tragedy in five acts". If this is correct, it does suggest that the play produced '''was''' in actual fact this 5-act tragedy by Vulvius, and not ''[[Le Secret]]'', a '''three act''' play by Fournier and Arnould,  as Bosman states in his 1980 history.  (The [[Dutch]] version is also a three act play.)
+From here on there is some uncertainty about any further productions of this work in South Africa. From 1867 onwards [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980), and presumably the company ([[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]]),  claim that the play performed by various incarnations of [[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]] between 1855 and 1910 was a "tragedy in five acts". If this is correct, it does suggest that the play produced '''was''' in actual fact this 5-act tragedy by Vulvius, and not ''[[Un Secret]]'' ("A Secret") , a '''three act''' play by Fournier and Arnould,  as Bosman states in his 1980 history.  (The [[Dutch]] version is also a three act play.)
-However, since we have nothing but these contradictory assertions by Bosman to go on, we list all productions of the play called ''[[Het Geheim]]'' here and as well as under ''[[Le Secret]]'',  for the record.
+However, since we have nothing but these contradictory assertions by Bosman to go on, we list all productions of the play called ''[[Het Geheim]]'' here and as well as under ''[[Un Secret]]'',  for the record.
 : ''[[Het Geheim]]'' produced by [[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]] at the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town on 26 June, with ''[[Uilenspiegel]]'' (Von Kotzebue).

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 [[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1980. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage",  in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
 [[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II: 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 443-4, 452
 Facsimile version of the French text of 1840 (Google eBook)[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=-w5fAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Le+Secret+par+Fournier+et+Arnould&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q=Le%20Secret%20par%20Fournier%20et%20Arnould&f=false]
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 Facsimile version of the 1840 [[Dutch]] translation by De Bruine, Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=abJkAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=A.H.+de+Bruine+Het+Geheim&source=bl&ots=xPDLGVsJZE&sig=du1YYLlsIejNWDe7NES2S13xWPs&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiYvOigxIPNAhUJIsAKHX0sDSIQ6AEIQDAG#v=onepage&q=A.H.%20de%20Bruine%20Het%20Geheim&f=false]
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