Improvisasie Kontiki

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Improvisasie Kontiki ("Improvisation Kontiki") is an improvised play, facilitated by Ben Dehaeck (1922-2017).

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[1]. The text probably written by Dehaeck and refined through improvisation with drama students and/or school children from the Drama Group of the Cloetesville Senior Secondary School in the 1980s.

The text is unpublished, but a typed copy is held in the archive of the Drama Department at Stellenbosch University

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

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

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