Een Oujaarsavond

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Een Oujaarsavond ("One old Year's eve") is a play in three acts by Mello Dikema (1848-1908)[1]


The original text

Written for the Rederijkerskamer Braga in Groningen, and published in Groningen by J.B. Huber, 1872. (His biography dates the play 1870.)

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1880: Performed by Aurora II in the Athenaeum Hall, Cape Town, on 27 July, with Het Bedrogen Drietal (Gillissen) as afterpiece.

1882: Performed, as part of a benefit performance for the widow and children of ex-President T.F. Burgers of the Republic of the Transvaal, by Aurora II in the Oddfellows Hall, Cape Town, on 8 June, with Het Bedrogen Drietal (Gillissen) as afterpiece.

1882: Performed , as part of a benefit performance for the Paarl Concordia Scherpschutters Vereniging (the "Paarl Concordia Sharpshooters Acssciation") by Aurora II in the Oddfellows Hall, Cape Town, on 13 June, with Het Bedrogen Drietal (Gillissen) as afterpiece.

Sources

Facsimile version of the 1872 text, Google E-book[2]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 468.

Ingmar Koch. 1997. Het ochtendgloren boven Kaapstad. Nederlandse rederijkers in Kaapstad, Tydskrif vir Nederlands & Afrikaans. (4de Jaargang, Nommer 2. Desember)[3]

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