Johannes Jakobus de Kock

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(17**-18**) Songwriter, amateur dancer and actor, and administrator.

A supporter of C.E. Boniface in the 1830s, he became the secretary of the amateur company Vlyt en Kunst in about 1833/34. However, he is oned of a number of persons named De Kock active in theatre at the time. Who precisely he was beyond this role as secretary to Vlyt en Kunst is therefore unclear. He was possibly the same person billed variously as J.J. de Kock, J. de Kock or J. de Kock C. zoon.


Roles as J. de Kock, C. zoon. included "Leonora" in Clasius, of Het Proces om een Komedielootjie , performed by Vlyt en Kunst in the African Theatre on 19 July 1834;

Roles as J.J. de Kock included "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.

A manager he was a supporter of C.E. Boniface in the 1830s, 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), ;



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