Les Frères à l'Épreuve
Les Frères à l'Épreuve ("The brothers tested") is a prose play in 3 acts by Benoît Pelletier-Volméranges (1756-1824).
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The original play
First performed in the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, Paris, on 6 September 1806. Published in Paris by Setier, 1806.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Dutch as De Broeders op den Toets by Cornelis van der Vijver, published in Amsterdam in 1807 by Van Esveldt Holtrop. (Also written wrongly as De Broeders op de Toets by Bosman, 1928, or his original source).
Performance history in South Africa
1818: Performed in Cape Town in Dutch as De Broeders Op Den Toets on 23 May 1818 by Tot Nut en Vermaak, with the one-act farce Het Misverstand, of Elk is Een Dief in Zyn Neering ("K")
1825: Performed in Dutch as De Broeders op de Toets by Tot Nut en Vermaak on 4 June in De Liefhebbery Toneel, with as afterpiece Uilenspiegel (Von Kotzebue).
Sources
Published text of Les Frères à l'Épreuve (1806), Google E-Book[1]
Published text of Broeders op den Toets (1807), Google E-Book[2]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp. 132, 236,
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