Thespis

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The name is found BOTH as the name of a theatre and debating society in Paarl and as the pseudonym used by a Cape Town theatre critic


Thespis: the theatre and debating society

The first Dutch language "Rederijkerskamer" or theatre and debating society in South Africa, established in the Paarl. Mentioned for the first time in a poem by J. Suasso de Lima entitled "De Paarl en 'Thespis' Rederijkers", dated 6 July 1858.

[TH, JH]

Sources

Fletcher, 199*;

Du Toit, 1988

F.C.L. Bosman, 1980: pp.


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Thespis: The theatre critic

"Thespis" was the pseudonym of a number of theatre critics in South Africa.

In the 1850s someone wrote under this name for The Monitor in the Cape Town (e.g ).


In the 1940s-1950s a critic for the Helikon wrote under this name, e.g. on Much Ado about Nothing (Helikon 1(2):13-14) and Deep are the Roots (Helikon, 1(2):114-15).


Sources

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 402-3;


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