Jean-Pierre-Diogenes, of L'Orateur dans un Tonneau

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("Jean-Pierre-Diogenes, or The Speaker in a Barrel").

The text

A comic prologue/epilogue by an anonymous author, based on the life/works of Diogenes, apparently written in three languages (Dutch, English and French).


Perfomances in South Africa

Spoken after a performance of De Struikroovers van Kalabrien, of De Onveilige Wildernis (Tréogate) by Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense in Cape Town on Saturday 11 November, 1815. The presentation was delivered by Een Zwart Heer ("A Black Gentleman"), claimed to have been one of the foremost performers in the Kingdom of Acte.

F.C.L. Bosman (1928[1]) believes it to have been the first appearance on the formal stage by a black actor in the Cape, and places the "Kingdom of Acte" in Madagascar.

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928[2]: p. 140

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