B.J. Van de Sandt

B.J. Van de Sandt (fl.1820s-1830s) was a Cape Town businessman, publisher, actor and translator.

Biography

Van de Sandt was apparently a Cape Town businessman and possibly the publisher of an "Almanac" in Cape Town.

Contribution to South African theatre

He was an amateur actor and a translator of texts, inter alia a member of the amateur company Het Zuid-Afrikaansche Tooneel Gezelschap (formerly known as Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense, for which he appeared as "Dorante" in De Burger Edelman (by Molière) in 1825.

He is listed as the translator of Monsieur Tonson (by Montcrieffe) from the English into Dutch, for performance in 1835, perhaps commissioned for the company Kunst en Smaak. Bosman (1828, p374) suggests that the Dutch translation/ of the satirical English one-act playlet Warren's Blacking, 30 Strand (1835) may also have been by him.

The same surname (without the initials) occurs later (1848 -1851) suggesting that he (or the Van de Sandt family) had premises in Kasteel Street, where tickets were sold for productions by the company Hoop en Trouw.

Sources

Bosman, 1928: pp 249, 262-282, 372-374; 502.

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