Kan Jy die Maan en die Sterre Hoor?
Kan Jy die Maan en die Sterre Hoor? ("Can you hear the moon and the stars?") is an Afrikaans play by Hennie Aucamp ().
Title also written Kan jy die maan en die sterre hoor? in Afrikaans.
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The original text
The text, collated and written by Hennie Aucamp in 2002, celebrates the life and value systems of the Bushman people (aka San) and is based on the writings of a a number of Afrikaans writers, celebrating the Bushmen in South Africa. The authors included by Aucamp are the literary figures G.R. von Wielligh, Eugène Marais, P.J. Schoeman, Uys Krige and Antjie Krog and the anthropologist Coral Fourie. Music composed by Peter Louis van Dijk
The play does not seem to have been published. A copy of the typed text is held in the archives of the Drama Department at the University of Stellenbosch.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
Hennie Aucamp. 2002. Kan Jy die Maan en die Sterre Hoor?. A copy of the text, held in the archives of the Drama Department at the University of Stellenbosch.
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