Kon-Tiki

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Kon-Tiki is a Dutch play for young people by Tone Brulin

The title aslo found as Kontiki

The original text

A play about eight young people who undertake an improvised performance about the explorer Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002) and the Kon-Tiki expedition of 1947[1].

The Dutch play was published by De Sikkel in 1973 (credited to by Tone Brulin and A. Fruithof).

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Afrikaans as Improvisasie Kontiki ("Improvisation Kontiki") by Ben Dehaeck (1922-2017).

The text is unpublished, but a typed copy is held in the archive of the Drama Department at Stellenbosch University

Performance history in South Africa

19Performed in Afrikaans by drama students and/or school children from the Drama Group of the Cloetesville Senior Secondary School, directed by Dehaeck.

Sources

Ben Dehaeck. Improvisasie Kontiki, a typed copy held in the archive of the Drama Department at Stellenbosch University

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_expedition

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

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