Rudens
Rudens (The Rope) is a play by Titus Maccius Plautus, (254-284 BC).
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The original text
The play tells the pathetic story of Palaestra who, having been stolen from her home in childhood, has fallen into the clutches of the procurer Labrax. She is eventually restored to her father and to her lover after a shipwreck.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into English as The Rope by E.F. Watling.
Translated into Afrikaans by Nerina Ferreira as Die Tou, from Watling's English version.
Translated into German as Der Schiffbruch ("The Shipwreck") by J.J.C. Donner. (Rudens)(Leipzig und Heidelberg, C.F. Winter'sche Verlagshandlung: 1864).
Performance history in South Africa
1992: Die Tou presented by CAPAB in the Nico Malan Theatre Arena in November 1992. Directed by Marthinus Basson, lighting by Malcolm Hurrell, music by Charl-Johan Lingenfelder. Members of the cast were Mary Dreyer, Jan Ellis, Neels Coetzee, Sizwe Msutu, Peter Butler, Elma van Wijk, Michelle Scott, Louw Verwey, Blaise Koch, Royston Stoffels and others.
Sources
World Drama by Allardyce Nicoll, 1949.
http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/der-schiffbruch-rudens-1782/1
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