Een Oom uit Californië

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Een Oom uit Californië ("an uncle from California") is a Dutch comedy in three acts by Johannes Hoek (1813-1893)[1].

Gillhoff (2013) lists a play De Oom uit Californië. Probably the same work.

The original text

A comedy written for the Rederijkers, published in Kampen, 1870.

Translations and adaptations

Hoek also wrote a five act play/adaptation called Een Oom uit Amerika[2] which was published by Van Hulst in 1875 (as Volume 23 of Tooneelfonds Van Hulst).

Performance history in South Africa

1872: Performed on 5 September by Aurora II in the Germania Hall, Cape Town, with a fragment of two acts from Gustaaf Wasa by Van Heyst.

Sources

Gerd Aage Gillhoff , 2013. The Royal Dutch Theatre at the Hague 1804–1876 Springer: p. 198.

Johannes van Abkoude. 1878. With Vervolge Alphabetische naamlijst van boeken, welke sedert 1790 (tot 1875) in Noord-Nederland zijn uitgekomen Amsterdam: C.L. Brinkman. Google E-book[3]

P.J. Blok, P.C. Molhuysen. 1912. "Hoek, Johannes" in Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek. Deel 2(1912)Google E-book[4]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 462, 464, 467

https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Een_oom_uit_Amerika.html?id=uUwYci8Zma8C&redir_esc=y

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