Adelaide van Beijeren

A Dutch version of Adélaïde de Bavière, a drama in four acts by Joseph-Marie Loaisel de Tréogate

The original text

First presented at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique in 1801, and published and sold at the theatre in the same year.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch as Adelaide van Beijeren by an unknown author, and published in Amsterdam by Gerrit Warnars, (1801) A copy also in volume 28 of the play series Spectatoriaale schouwburg: behelzende eene verzameling der beste zedelyke tooneelstukken, byeen gebragt uit alle de verscheiden taalen van Europa published in 1801. (Some authors, e.g. Bosman, 1928, give the title as Adelaide van Beyeren.)

Performance history in South Africa

1854: Performed by Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst in Cape Town in the Bree Street Theatre (cnr of Dorp Street), on 12 October 1854, with De Dronkaard, of De Boer Edelman (Von Kotzebue) as an afterpiece.

1865: Produced by Door Ijver bloeit de Kunst = D.Y.b.d.K. at the Theatre Royal on 29 August 1865,

1869: Produced at the Odd Fellows’ Hall on 3 February 1869, by De Eendracht

1876: Produced at the Odd Fellows’ Hall on 28 December 1876

1897: Produced by Door Ijver bloeit de Kunst in the Good Hope Hall on 31 August 1897.