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J.T. Martens (19**-) was church minister and a dramatist.
Biography
Born Jan Thomas Martens, he was the first minister of the Waterval NG congregation (1921 – 1928) and other congregations.
Contribution to theatre, film, media and performance
He wrote the religious-didactic one-act play Twee is Beter as Een, first performed in 1967 in the church in Wolseley. Later performed in the Old Apostolic church in March 1968 by a group that would become Môrester Amateur Toneelgroep (MAT), and in Malmesbury in June 1968.
Sources
January 1997.
Annotated copy of the typed text of the play, found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department archives in 2022.
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