Jeanne Goosen - Elders aan Diens

Jeanne Goosen - Elders aan Diens is a cabaret about the poetry of Jeanne Goosen (-2020).

The original text

The cabaret was developed by Albert Maritz and based on Elders aan Diens, a collection of new poetry by Jeanne Goosen, published by Genugtig! Uitgewers in 2007. The poems were set to music and performed by Nicole Holm, Frieda van den Heever and Luna Paige.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

2008: It was performed at the KKNK directed by Albert Maritz, with Nicole Holm, Luna Pieterse and Frieda van den Heever. Performances at various other festivals and theatrew venues also followed.

2009: Broadcast on the RSG Kunstefees in 2009, though no recording was made at the time.

2013: A video recording of a performance of the show was made in the Klein Libertas Theatre, Stellenbosch, and broadcast during the RSG Kunstefees in celebration of Jeanne Goosen's 75th birthday.

2020: After Goosen's death on 3 Junie 2020, the 2013 filmed recording of the cabaret was broadcast online by Iluminar Produksies, the broadcasting arm of the Drostdy Teater in Stellenbosch, on 26 June, during the lockdown of theatres in the time of COVID.