Kerse Teen die Wind

Kerse Teen die Wind ("Candles against the wind") can refer to an Afrikaans one-act play by Gerhard J. Beukes (1913 - 1998) om 1950, or to a collection of ten one-act plays compiled by Beukes in 1950, called Kerse Teen Die Wind: Tien Eenbedrywe.

Also referred to as Kerse Teen die Wind! in some sources.

The play

The original text

Published in the collection Kerse Teen Die Wind: Tien Eenbedrywe by J.L. van Schaik, Pretoria in 1950.

Performance history in South Africa

1959: Produced by Rykie Lötter for the Jansenville Dramavereniging. Starring Helen Booysen, Jannie van Zyl, Ice Lötter and Johannes Slabbert.

The play collection

Published as Kerse Teen Die Wind: Tien Eenbedrywe the book contains the following ten one-act plays, all written by Beukes:

Kerse Teen die Wind, Die Vrees, As Nefie Kom Kuier!, Die Hand Wat Hy Eenmaal Geneem Het, Die Braaiboud, Oktobernag, In My Dae, Die Ligblou Vaas, Mamma het planne and Laat die Kerse Brand!.

The volume first published by J.L. van Schaik in 1950

Sources

https://kakkerlak.co.za/product/kerse-teen-die-wind-tien-eenbedrywe-gerhard-j-beukes/

Gerhard J. Beukes (1913–1998) by Erika Terblanche, in LitNet 2014-08-21

Copy of a catalogue (handwritten by various hands) of the F.C.L. Bosman collection held at the Nasionale Afrikaanse Letterkunde Museum en Navorsingsentrum (NALN) in Bloemfontein.

Senekal, Jan and Van Aswegen, Karien (eds.). 1980. Bronne by die Studie van Afrikaanse Dramas 1900-1978. Johannesburg: Perskor

http://www.stellenboschwriters.com/beukes.html

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