Krotoa
A one-woman performance by Antoinette Pienaar (1995).
A full-length play by John van der Ross (2006).
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Krotoa (or "Eva") (c.1642-1674) was a Khoi woman who worked, when she was young, as a playmate and babysitter in the household of Jan van Riebeeck, the first governor of the Cape Colony. As a teenager, she learned Dutch and Portuguese and like her uncle, Autshumato (a Khoi leader and trader) worked as an interpreter for the Dutch. In April 1664 she married Pieter van Meerhoff, a Danish surgeon. [1]
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Performance history in South Africa
The one-woman performance by Antoinette Pienaar, with Derek Fordyce was first staged at the KKNK and the Grahamstown Festival in 1995 and later, in December 1995 in the Castle in Cape Town.
The play by John van der Ross was staged by For Him Productions in various Eastern Cape venues, directed by the author, in February 2006.
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