De Wees van Brussel

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De Wees van Brussel ("The orphan of Brussels") is a Dutch drama in four acts by Arie Ruysch (or Arie Ruisch, 1797-1871)[1]

The original text

Based on an episode in the last days of Alva's reign of terror in the Netherlands, the play was published in aid of the association for unemployed workers in Vlissingen and first performed in the Koninklijken Schouwburg, at Den Haag, in 1848.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1879: Performed by Aurora II in the Athenaeum Hall, Cape Town, on 3 April, as part of the "Koperen Feest" of Aurora II. (I.e. the "Copper Festival", a celebration the 12.5 years since its founding.)

Sources

Van Ishoven, 1847. De Vlaemsche rederyker: tydschrift ter bevordering van tael-, dicht- en letterkunde, Volume 8, p. 21: Google E-book[2]

Gerd Aage Gillhoff. 2013. The Royal Dutch Theatre at the Hague 1804–1876. Springer, Google E-book[3]

http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bran038biog01_01/bran038biog01_01_3539.php

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

Facsimile version of the 1869 Dutch text, Google E-book[4]

"Uitgave van J. Schuitemaker te Purmerende voor Rederijkers!" in Purmerender Courant, 17 September, 1879: p. 3[5]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 466, 468.

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