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''[[Vermaak se kind]]'' ("Child of entertainment/The child of Vermaak"?) is a  3-act comedy in [[Afrikaans]] by [[W.A. de Klerk]] (1917-1996).  
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''[[Vermaak se kind]]'' ("Entertainment's child/Vermaak's child"?) is a  3-act comedy in [[Afrikaans]] by [[W.A. de Klerk]] (1917-1996).  
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The title is makes use of the double entendre presented by the Afrikaans surname Vermaak and the Afrikaans word for entertainment, as well as being a reference to the [[Afrikaans]] expression "ek's nie vermaak se kind nie" (lit "I am not entertainment's child", i.e. "I am no fool")
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
Published: [[Nasionale Boekhandel]], 1963.
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Published as ''[[Vermaak se Kind: Die kroniek van 'n soeker]]'' (Vermaak's child: the chronicle of a searcher") by [[Nasionale Boekhandel]], 1963.
  
  

Revision as of 16:22, 13 January 2021

Vermaak se kind ("Entertainment's child/Vermaak's child"?) is a 3-act comedy in Afrikaans by W.A. de Klerk (1917-1996).

The title is makes use of the double entendre presented by the Afrikaans surname Vermaak and the Afrikaans word for entertainment, as well as being a reference to the Afrikaans expression "ek's nie vermaak se kind nie" (lit "I am not entertainment's child", i.e. "I am no fool")

The original text

Published as Vermaak se Kind: Die kroniek van 'n soeker (Vermaak's child: the chronicle of a searcher") by Nasionale Boekhandel, 1963.


Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on

Sources

Afrikaans Wikipedia [1]

De Beer, 1995;

Kannemeyer, 1983)

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