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A play about eight young people who undertake an improvised performance about the explorer Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002) and the Kon-Tiki expedition of 1947[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_expedition].  
 
A play about eight young people who undertake an improvised performance about the explorer Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002) and the Kon-Tiki expedition of 1947[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_expedition].  
  
The [[Dutch]] play was published by De Sikkel in 1973 (credited to by [[Tone Brulin]] and A. Fruithof).
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The [[Dutch]] play was published as ''[[Kon-tiki : hoger secundair onderwijs]]'' by De Sikkel in 1973 (credited to by [[Tone Brulin]] and A. Fruithof).
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 06:21, 4 July 2022

Kon-Tiki is a Dutch play for young people by Tone Brulin (1926-)

The title aslo found as Kontiki.

The original text

A play about eight young people who undertake an improvised performance about the explorer Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002) and the Kon-Tiki expedition of 1947[1].

The Dutch play was published as Kon-tiki : hoger secundair onderwijs by De Sikkel in 1973 (credited to by Tone Brulin and A. Fruithof).

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Afrikaans as Improvisasie Kontiki ("Improvisation Kontiki") by Ben Dehaeck (1922-2017).

The text is unpublished, but a typed copy is held in the archive of the Drama Department at Stellenbosch University

Performance history in South Africa

19Performed in Afrikaans by drama students and/or school children from the Drama Group of the Cloetesville Senior Secondary School, directed by Dehaeck.

Sources

Ben Dehaeck. Improvisasie Kontiki, a typed copy held in the archive of the Drama Department at Stellenbosch University

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_expedition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl

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