Krotoa
A play by John van der Ross. Full-length. Cast: mixed.
A one-woman performance by Antoinette Pienaar, first staged at the KKNK in 1995 and later, in December 1995 in the Castle in Cape Town.
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Krotoa (or "Eva") (c.1642-1674) was a Khoi woman who worked, when she was young, as a playmate and babysitter in the household of Jan van Riebeeck, the first governor of the Cape Colony. As a teenager, she learned Dutch and Portuguese and like her uncle, Autshumato (a Khoi leader and trader) worked as an interpreter for the Dutch. In April 1664 she married Pieter van Meerhoff, a Danish surgeon. [1]
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