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''[[Het Dansende Ezeltje]]'' is a full-length [[Dutch]] children's play by Erik Vos ()
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''[[Het Dansende Ezeltje]]'' is a full-length [[Dutch]] children's play by Erik Vos (1929-)[https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Vos]
  
 
(The title written in lower script as ''[[Het dansende ezeltje]]'' in [[Dutch]] publications).
 
(The title written in lower script as ''[[Het dansende ezeltje]]'' in [[Dutch]] publications).
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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
Described as a "toneelspel met liedjes voor kinderen", the play is based on the one-act play ** by Leon Chancerel
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Described as a "toneelspel met liedjes voor kinderen", the play was Vos's first play and was  an adaptation, based on the one-act play ** by Leon Chancerel
  
  
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Revision as of 14:45, 3 March 2025

Het Dansende Ezeltje is a full-length Dutch children's play by Erik Vos (1929-)[1]

(The title written in lower script as Het dansende ezeltje in Dutch publications).

The original text

Described as a "toneelspel met liedjes voor kinderen", the play was Vos's first play and was an adaptation, based on the one-act play ** by Leon Chancerel


Written in the style of the Italian commedia dell'arte, it tells of a donkey is stolen by two scoundrels, who disguise themselves afterwards to sell the stolen donkey back to its original owner.

The Dutch version published by Heijnis, 1965.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into English from the Dutch by Bill Honeywood as The Dancing Donkey.[2]

Translated into Afrikaans from the Dutch by Wilma Stöckenstrom as Die Dansende Donkie.

Performance Hisotory in South Africa

1966: Performed in Afrikaans by PACOFS as Die Dansende Donkie, directed by with Henk Hugo, Wilson Dunster, Francesca Bantock, Marie Pentz.

1968: Performed in Afrikaans by PACT as Die Dansende Donkie, directed by with [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]].

Sources

https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Het_dansende_ezeltje_toneelspel_met_lied.html?id=BFMQAQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y

https://origintheatrical.com.au/work/7055

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Vos


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