De Kalkoen van Breda
A Dutch farce with music, by Carel Alexander Van Ray. Full Dutch title: De Kalkoen van Breda, of Menig Voordeel Komt Onverwacht ("The Turkey of Breda, or many advantages come unexpectedly")
Original text
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), repeated on 28 May 1831 (as afterpiece to Robert , of De Struikroovers by Lamartélière, tr by Witsen Geysbeek).
Other performances:
2 August 1844 by Het Privaat Hollandsch Tooneellievend Gezelschap in the Roeland Street Theatre, as afterpiece to Eleonora van Rosalba, of de puinhopen van Paluzzi
30 April 1846 by Het Privaat Hollandsch Tooneellievend Gezelschap in the Roeland Street Theatre as afterpiece to Volsan***;
23 October 1851 by Tot Oefening en Vermaak in the Garrison Theatre, as afterpiece to De Toveres Sidonia (Zschokke), as a charity performance.
Sources
Bosman, 1928: pp 241, 447, 455.
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