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Jean-Marie Besset

JEAN-MARIE BESSET   (1959 - )

Nationality:   French    Email:   n/a   Website:   n/a

Literary Agent:  United Agents  represented by Nicki Stoddart

Born in Carcassonne, Jean-Marie Besset spent his childhood and adolescence in the nearby small town of Limoux, in Southwest France, until his Baccalaureat (1977). With degrees in business (Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales, 1981) and political sciences (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, 1984), he divided for twelve years his time between Paris and New York. In 1999-2000, he returned to France to become the artistic director of the Théâtre de l'Atelier, a landmarked Paris theatre acquired by Laura Pels. Since 2000, in partnership with producer/director Gilbert Désveaux, he has formed the company BCDV THEATRE to initiate and mount projects (among which, a summer theatre festival, NAVA -New Authors in the Aude Valley.) In 2001-04, he was elected on the board of the Society of French Playwrights (SACD). He's a literary consultant for the Theatre du Rond Point and has just been appointed Director of the Centre-Dramatique National du Languedoc-Roussillon in Montpelier (from Jan 1 2010). DICATE OF DRAMA CRITICS. Besset is also laureate of the ACADEMIE FRANCAISE (New Theatre Prize, 1998; Grand Theatre Prize, 2005), and was made Chevalier (1995), then Officier (2002) in the ORDER OF ARTS AND LETTERS. With fellow playwright Mark O'Donnell, he completed a new English version of Feydeau's A FLEA IN HER EAR directed by Bill Irwin at the Roundabout Theatre (New York, Feb-May 1998). For the screen, Besset co-wrote THE PROPRIETOR, an original screenplay for Merchant Ivory Productions (1995), and has developed film version of his plays, GRANDE ECOLE (Robert Salis; 2004), COMMENTAIRE D'AMOUR (in project), and his stageplay RER was filmed (THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN /André Téchiné, 2009). More recently, Jean-Marie has adapted Alan A|yckbourn's LIFE OF RILEY (to be made into a film by Alain Resnais). Recent translations for the stage include Oscar Wilde's THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (to be produced in 2013 in Montpellier and Paris), Will Eno's MIDDLETOWN, Edward Albee's AT HOME AT THE ZO0 and Pinter's ASHES TO ASHES. Jean-Marie has also written two new stageplays, LE BANQUET D'AUTEUIL, LE KINE DE CARCASSONNE (in collaboration with Regis de Matrin-Donos), ROCHE FERRE, A CASE OF LEGAL MEDICINE and he is just completing a four-hander, LA FILLE ET LE GARCON.

Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Jean-Marie Besset

DAVID ELDRIDGE  

Babylone

1st Produced:

Coventry: Belgrade Theatre, Belgrade Square, Coventry CV1 1GS >>>" target="_blank">Coventry: Belgrade Theatre, England, Eur >>>

27 Oct 2009

Organisations:

The Fish Patnership

1st Published:

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

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2

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Notes:

Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset. Written in 2002

Synopsis:

A safe bourgeois existence collapses as, on a cold Christmas Eve, two men meet in the foyer of an appartment block in the well-healed Rue de Babylone in Paris.

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JEAN-MARIE BESSET  

Baron

1st Produced:

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1997

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JEAN-MARIE BESSET  

Best Of Schools

1st Produced:

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1990

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MARK O'DONNELL  

Best Of Schools

1st Produced:

UBU Repertory Theatre

1993

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

UBU Repertory Theater (January 1, 1993)

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0913745342

Music:

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

Male

4

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2

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Notes:

Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset

Best Of Schools

Dangerous liaisons among six students during their first term at a French Ivy League school

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CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY  

Commentaire d'Amour

1st Produced:

reading at Tristan Bates Theatre, London

2006

Organisations:

Operating Theatre Company, London

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

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Genre:

Translation

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2

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Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset. part of Autumns Writers' Block. Written by Jean-Marie Besset, Translated by Christopher Ashley and Jean-Marie Besset

Synopsis:

In Commentaire d'Amour the battle of the sexes is updated to the battle of the sexualities, and explores the limits of friendship. Guillaume, grieving for the love of his life, turns to his friend Mathilde for comfort. When Guillaume chooses to love again, he jeopardizes his friendship with Mathilde, who finds herself in a complex maze of modern relationships and all their possibilities. It is a profoundly human story, analysing relationships between friends of opposite genders and diving into the complexities of sexual roles and passion.

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MARK O'DONNELL  

Flea In Her Ear, A

1st Produced:

Roundabout Theatre, New York

1998

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

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Notes:

Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset. An adaptation of "A Flea In Her Ear" by Georges Feydeau

Synopsis:

n/a

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JEAN-MARIE BESSET  

Foreign Fair, A

1st Produced:

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1986

Organisations:

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JEAN-MARIE BESSET  

French Heart, A

1st Produced:

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1995

Organisations:

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RICHARD MILLER  

Function, The

1st Produced:

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1985

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

Contained in: "Gay Plays: An International Anthology" published by Ubu Repertory Theatre Publishers 1989

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0913745211

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:

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Parts other:

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Notes:

Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset

Synopsis:

n/a

Further Reference:

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LISA FORRELL  

Greeks, The

1st Produced:

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2003

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

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Genre:

Translation

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Parts other:

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Notes:

Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset

Synopsis:

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JEAN-MARIE BESSET  

Marie Hasparren

1st Produced:

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1992

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

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JEAN-MARIE BESSET  

New York School, The

1st Produced:

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2000

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

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JEAN-MARIE BESSET  

Rer

1st Produced:

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2005

Organisations:

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LISA FORRELL  

Rue De Babylone

1st Produced:

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2002

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

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-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset

Synopsis:

n/a

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JEAN-MARIE BESSET  

Villa Luco

1st Produced:

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1984

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

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-

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Notes:

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JEAN-MARIE BESSET  

What You Get And What You Expect

1st Produced:

- - -

1988

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

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-

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HAL J WITT  

What You Get And What You Expect

1st Produced:

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- - -

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-

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

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Female

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Parts other:

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Notes:

Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset

Synopsis:

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