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''[[Kon-Tiki]]'' is a [[Dutch]] play for young people by [[Tone Brulin]] (1926-)
 
''[[Kon-Tiki]]'' is a [[Dutch]] play for young people by [[Tone Brulin]] (1926-)
  
The title aslo found as '''''[[Kontiki]]'''''.
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The title also found as '''''[[Kontiki]]'''''.
  
 
==The original text==
 
==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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_expedition].  
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Am educational 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 [[Dutch]] play was published as ''[[Kon-tiki : hoger secundair onderwijs]]'' by De Sikkel in 1973 (credited to by [[Tone Brulin]] and A. Fruithof).
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The [[Dutch]] play was published as ''[[Kon-tiki: hoger secundair onderwijs]]'' by De Sikkel in 1973 (credited to by [[Tone Brulin]] and A. Fruithof) as part of a series called ''Toneel in de klas'' ("theatre in the class").
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 06:25, 4 July 2022

Kon-Tiki is a Dutch play for young people by Tone Brulin (1926-)

The title also found as Kontiki.

The original text

Am educational 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].

The Dutch play was published as Kon-tiki: hoger secundair onderwijs by De Sikkel in 1973 (credited to by Tone Brulin and A. Fruithof) as part of a series called Toneel in de klas ("theatre in the class").

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The text is unpublished, but a typed copy is held in the archive of the Drama Department at Stellenbosch University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

19Performed in Afrikaans by drama students and/or school children from the Drama Group of the Cloetesville Senior Secondary School, directed by Dehaeck.

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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