The Storm

There are several theatrical works with The Storm as title.

The Storm by Plautus

The Storm is one of the English titles used for Rudens ("The Rope") by Plautus

The text

Normally translated into English as The Rope and Der Schiffbruch (The Shipwreck) in German. A new translation by Peter Oswald, however, was entitled The Storm, and was produced at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London as part of the "World and Underworld" Season in 2005.

Performances of Rudens in South Africa

See Rudens

The Storm (or The Thunderstorm) by Ostrovsky

(Russian: Гроза, sometimes translated as The Thunderstorm) [1] is an 1859 play by Russian playwright Aleksandr Nicolaevich Ostrovsky (1823-1886) [2].

The original text

Originally published in Russian in in 1860,

Translations and adaptations

Translated into English by Constance Garnett and published in 1898.

Adaptation in Afrikaans by Braam Cilliers as Die Storm.

Performance history in South Africa

1978: The Afrikaans adaptation performed by the University of Pretoria Drama Department, directed by Braam Cilliers, with Lochner de Kock, Ben Kruger, Pieter Brand, Eben Cruywagen, Alida Theron, Schalk Schoombie, Selma van der Vyver, Alwina van Wyk, André Retief, Marlise Erwee, Karin Cronje, Suzette de Waal and others.

Sources

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Storm, by Aleksandr Nicolaevich Ostrovsky (Garnett translation)Release Date: April, 2005 (EBook #7991)[3]

University of Pretoria Drama Department theatre programme, 1978.

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