Johannes Jakobus de Kock
(18**-18**) Songwriter, amateur dancer and actor, and administrator.
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Biography
Born in Cape Town, he is one of a number of persons named De Kock active in theatre in the 1830s. However, it is unclear whether the individuels referred to variously as J.J. de Kock, J. de Kock or J. de Kock C. zoon by F.C.L. Bosman (1928) are possibly all the same person, or possibly siblings or children. Possibly a local businessman.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
As a manager he was a supporter of C.E. Boniface in the 1830s, was a member of the amateur society Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense in Cape Town, and became the secretary of the amateur company Vlyt en Kunst in about 1833/34. He sold the tickets at his offices for performances, e.g. for a presentation of A Fatasmagorie (M. Decanis).
As an performer his roles under the various names include:
"Leonora" in Clasius, of Het Proces om een Komedielootjie , performed by Vlyt en Kunst in the African Theatre on 19 July 1834;
As J.J. de Kock: He performed "certain amusements" undertaken as part of an evening's entertainment, following on a presentation of A Fatasmagorie by M. Decanis of the "theatre Royal, Paris", on 7 March, 1837 in Cape Town.
As J. de Kock: member of the amateur society Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense For them he played one of the "snydersjongens" and a "Dansende Turk" in De Burger Edelman (1825), C.E. Boniface's translation of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Molière).
Performed for the Dutch amateur company Vlyt en Kunst, appearing in Clasius (by C.E. Boniface) on 19 July 1834.
Sources
Bosman, 1928 pp 282, 328 & 272;
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