De Kalkoen van Breda
De Kalkoen van Breda is a Dutch farce with music, by Carel Alexander Van Ray (1780-1842)[1].
Original text
Full Dutch title: De Kalkoen van Breda, of Menig Voordeel Komt Onverwacht ("The Turkey of Breda, or many advantages come unexpectedly")
Published in Amsterdam by Abraham Mars in 1816.
South African performances
1829: Produced in the African Theatre, Cape Town, South Africa by Tot Nut en Vermaak on 6 June alongside De Lasteraar (Von Kotzebue),
1831: Produced in the African Theatre, Cape Town, South Africa by Tot Nut en Vermaak on 28 May 1831 (as afterpiece to Robert , of De Struikroovers by Lamartélière, tr by Witsen Geysbeek).
1844: Produced on 2 August by Het Privaat Hollandsch Tooneellievend Gezelschap in the Roeland Street Theatre, as afterpiece to Eleonora van Rosalba, of de puinhopen van Paluzzi
1846: Produced on 30 April by Het Privaat Hollandsch Tooneellievend Gezelschap in the Roeland Street Theatre as afterpiece to Volsan***;
1851: Produced on 23 October by Tot Oefening en Vermaak in the Garrison Theatre, as afterpiece to De Toveres Sidonia (Zschokke), as a charity performance.
Sources
Facsimile text of De Kalkoen van Breda, Google Books[2]
Bosman, 1928: pp 241, 447, 455.
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