J.T. Martens

J.T. Martens (19**-) was church minister and a dramatist.

Biography

Born Jan Thomas Martens, he was the first minister of the Waterval NG congregation (1921 – 1928) and other congregations.

Contribution to theatre, film, media and performance

He wrote the religious-didactic one-act play Twee is Beter as Een, first performed in 1967 in the church in Wolseley. Later performed in the Old Apostolic church in March 1968 by a group that would become Môrester Amateur Toneelgroep (MAT), and in Malmesbury in June 1968.

Sources

Cornelius January 1997. 'n Vergelykende studie ten opsigte van die aktiwiteite van stedelike swart amateur gemeenskapsgroepe en plattelandse Swart amateur gemeenskapsgroepe in die apartheidsjare. ("A comparative study regarding the activities of urban black amateur community groups and rural black amateur community groups in the Apartheid years") Unpublished master’s thesis. Bellville: University of the Western Cape: pp. 26-27, 36-38.

Annotated copy of the typed text of the one-act play Twee is Beter as Een, found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department archives in 2022.

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