De Keukenhelden

De Keukenhelden ("Heroes of the kitchen") is a one-act Dutch farce by C. van Foreest.

The original text

Based on Les Héros de Cuisine, ou L'enfant de l'Amour, a "tragédie burlesque en 1 acte et en vers" by Jacques André Jacquelin, published by Fages, Paris, 2 March 1799 and by Delavigne in 1815. According to Charles Etienne Boniface (cit. Bosman, 1928: p. 276), the French play was itself a parody of Voltaire's five act tragedy Tancrède.

The Dutch text was published anonymously in Amsterdam by Pieter Johannes Uylenbroek, in 1799.

Performance history in South Africa

1823: Performed in Dutch by Boniface's company Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense in the African Theatre, Cape Town theatre as on 20 March, with Het Geweten (Iffland).

Sources

Facsimile of the 1799 Dutch text[1]

http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/Dutch/Ceneton/CenetonIncipits.html

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 275-6

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