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| − | 1819: Announced for performance in [[Dutch]] as ''[[Uilenspiegel]]'' in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town on 5 June. However it was postponed, taking place 12 June 1819, as afterpiece to ''[[Menschenhaat en Berouw]]'' (Von Kotzebue). | + | 1819: Announced for performance by [[Tot Nut en Vermaak]] in [[Dutch]] as ''[[Uilenspiegel]]'' in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town on 5 June. However it was postponed, taking place 12 June 1819, as afterpiece to ''[[Menschenhaat en Berouw]]'' (Von Kotzebue). |
1825: Performed in [[Dutch]] as ''[[Uilenspiegel]]'' by [[Tot Nut en Vermaak]] on 4 June in the [[African Theatre]], as afterpiece to ''[[De Broeders Op Den Toets]]'' (Pelletier-Volméranges). | 1825: Performed in [[Dutch]] as ''[[Uilenspiegel]]'' by [[Tot Nut en Vermaak]] on 4 June in the [[African Theatre]], as afterpiece to ''[[De Broeders Op Den Toets]]'' (Pelletier-Volméranges). | ||
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1852: Performed by [[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]] in the [[Bree Street Theatre]], Cape Town on 16 September, with ''[[De Onechte Dochter]]'' (J.P. Meijer). | 1852: Performed by [[Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst]] in the [[Bree Street Theatre]], Cape Town on 16 September, with ''[[De Onechte Dochter]]'' (J.P. Meijer). | ||
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A German dramatic farce in one act by August von Kotzebue (1761 – 1819),
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The original text
Originally apparently written by Von Kotzebue as a libretto for an opera by this name, with music by Ludwig Wilhelm Tepper von Ferguson, and produced by Von Kotzebue in the German Theatre in St Petersburg in 1801 (to no great success).
Possibly reworked as a one-act farce, published in German in Berlin 1807, first performed in this form in the Königliches Schauspielhaus, Berlin in 1806.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Dutch as Uilenspiegel by Jan Steven van Esveldt Holtrop, and published by J.S. van Esveldt Holtrop, Amsterdam, 1812.
Performance history in South Africa
1819: Announced for performance by Tot Nut en Vermaak in Dutch as Uilenspiegel in the African Theatre, Cape Town on 5 June. However it was postponed, taking place 12 June 1819, as afterpiece to Menschenhaat en Berouw (Von Kotzebue).
1825: Performed in Dutch as Uilenspiegel by Tot Nut en Vermaak on 4 June in the African Theatre, as afterpiece to De Broeders Op Den Toets (Pelletier-Volméranges).
1852: Performed by Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst in the Bree Street Theatre, Cape Town on 16 September, with De Onechte Dochter (J.P. Meijer).
Sources
Opening Night! Opera & Oratorio Premieres, Stanford University Libraries[1]
Stanley Hochman 1984 McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama: An International Reference Work in 5 Volumes, Stanley Hochman, Volume 1: p. 182 [2]
http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Uilenspiegel.html?id=p3YMtwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_von_Kotzebue
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 134, 236, 456-7,
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