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Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Improvisasie Kontiki]]'' ("Improvisation Kontiki") by [[Ben Dehaeck]] (1922-2017).
 
Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Improvisasie Kontiki]]'' ("Improvisation Kontiki") by [[Ben Dehaeck]] (1922-2017).
 
A 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 text probably written by Dehaeck and refined through improvisation with drama students and/or school children from the Drama Group of the [[Cloetesville Senior Secondary School]] in the 1980s.
 
  
 
The text is unpublished, but a typed copy is held in the archive of the Drama Department at [[Stellenbosch University]]
 
The text is unpublished, but a typed copy is held in the archive of the Drama Department at [[Stellenbosch University]]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 ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==

Revision as of 06:11, 4 July 2022


The original text

A play about eight young people who undertake an improvised performance about the explorer Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002) and the Kon-Tiki expedition of 1947[1].


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The text is unpublished, but a typed copy is held in the archive of the Drama Department at Stellenbosch University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

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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