Di Neef als Oom

Encore des Ménechmes is a French play in three acts by Louis-Benoît Picard (1769-1828)[1].

Translations and adaptations

Adapted into German by Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)[2] as

Translated from the German into Afrikaans by D.G. Conradie as Di Neef als Oom ("The cousin as uncle") in 1909.

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on

Sources

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Beno%C3%AEt_Picard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205

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