FRANCOIS ARCHAMBAULT   (1968 - )
adaptations/translations by modern playwrights


Francois Archambault
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Adaptations - Translations of Plays by Francois Archambault

BOBBY THEODORE
15 Seconds
1st Produced:
1999
Company:
-
1st Published:
Talon Books, Vancouver B.C, 2000
ISBN
-
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Genre:
translation
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Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Francois Archambault
Synopsis:
Claude and Mathieu are brothers. Claude is successful in love, Mathieus never kissed a girl. Mathieu is successful professionally and used to getting what he wants. Claude is unemployed and at the end of his tether as he slips from one McJob to the next. Mathieu has cerebral palsy. Claude is turning 30 and having his mid-life crisis early. Then Claude meets Charlotte. So does Mathieu. When she moves into the brothers flat, everything becomes complicated. Very complicated. Even more complicated when Mathieu offers Claude a deal that no brother should. A deal no brother should accept
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SHELLEY TEMPERMAN
Fast Lane, The
1st Produced:
National Arts Centre Atelier, Ottawa
1995
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Francois Archambault
Synopsis:
Six twenty somethings overindulging in drugs, booze and sex
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ISABEL WRIGHT
Fifteen Seconds
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
Traverse TC
1st Published:
Traverse Publishing, 2003
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Scots English Adaptation
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Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Francois Archambault
Synopsis:
Claude and Mathieu are brothers. Claude is successful in love, Mathieus never kissed a girl. Mathieu is successful professionally and used to getting what he wants. Claude is unemployed and at the end of his tether as he slips from one McJob to the next. Mathieu has cerebral palsy. Claude is turning 30 and having his mid-life crisis early. Then Claude meets Charlotte. So does Mathieu. When she moves into the brothers flat, everything becomes complicated. Very complicated. Even more complicated when Mathieu offers Claude a deal that no brother should. A deal no brother should accept
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BOBBY THEODORE
Leisure Society, The
1st Produced:
2005
Company:
-
1st Published:
Talon Books, Vancouver, B.C., 2005
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Francois Archambault
Synopsis:
At a dinner party a thirty something couple who seem to have everything come to a crisis point
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SHELLEY TEMPERMAN
Winners, The
1st Produced:
-
1997
Company:
Ruby Slippers (Vancouver)
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Francois Archambault
Synopsis:
Philippe is searching for a job, a girlfriend and the meaning of life.
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