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Anne Carson

ANNE CARSON

  (1950 - )
Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    United Talent Agency  subiasm@unitedtalent.com

Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987. She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow. and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She has also won a Lannan Literary Award.

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below is a list of Anne Carson's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Agamemnon         Alcestis         Antigonick         Bakkhai         Electra         Goat At Midnight, The         Hecuba         Heracles         Hippolytus         Orestes         Supernatural Wife

Agamemnon

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Aeschylus

1st Produced:
Classic Stage Company, New York    22 Mar 2009

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Translation

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Alcestis

Alcestis
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Original Playwright - euripides

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Contained in: "Grief Lessons" published by New York Review of Books 2008   978-1590172537

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Translation

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Antigonick

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a contemporary version of Sophokles's tragedy, translated afresh by T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet Anne Carson. When her dead brother is decreed a traitor, his body left unburied beyond the city walls, Antigone refuses to accept this severe punishment. Defying her uncle who governs, she dares to say 'No!'

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Original Playwright - Sophocles. Based on "Antigone"

1st Produced:
Grand Theatre de Luxembourg    Feb 2015

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Oberon Books, London   -

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Bakkhai

Bakkhai
Pentheus has banned the wild, ritualistic worship of the god Dionysos. A stranger arrives to persuade him to change his mind. Euripides electrifying tragedy is a struggle to the death between freedom and restraint, the rational and the irrational, man and god. Using three actors and a chorus, echoing the original performance model

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Original Playwright - Euripides

1st Produced:
Almeida Theatre, London    23 Jul 2015

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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2015) >>>    978-1783199150

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  4            Female:  9            Other:  -

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Electra

Electra
entrapped by her grief and a burning sense of injustice, elektra battles to find purpose in life after the murder of her father. Will revenge bring her relief and freedom? Or will it continue to trap her family in an endless cycle of violence?

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Original Playwright - Sophocles

1st Produced:
The Daryl Roth Theatre In New York.    2005

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1st Published:
Oxford University Press, 2003   978-0195049602

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Genre:
Translation

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Goat At Midnight, The

Goat At Midnight, The
the King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the english language. the KJV was composed as a collective project and written to be spoken. Sixty-Six Books has been created, in the spirit of the original, in the same way. Pulpit to print; stage to page; mediated through many forms oral and written, the KJV has, since its inception, been a fundamental part of written and spoken english.This is a work that has travelled to every continent of the globe. It has been shared as a melodic instrument of inspiration, illumination and mutual understanding; and it has also been wielded as a tool of colonial oppression. Sixty-Six Books is a fresh interpretation of the KJV for the new millennium, celebrating and challenging the traditions and achievements of this great work on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. the curators of this project have gathered together a formidable and inspiring line-up of the best established and emerging writing talent to produce a new version of the KJV for thetwenty-first century. each writer has created anew a book of the KJV - as prose, poetry, Drama, performance, song, or ground-breaking digital form. each writer has spoken back to the KJV with untrammeled inventiveness of the imagination. the voices of Sixty-Six Books, drawn from across five continents, innovate, transmute, transpose, reinvent and talk back to four hundredyears of history. all the works that make up Sixty-Six Books are written to be spoken. Culminating in major performance events at the Bush theatre and Westminster abbey in 2011 in London, Sixty-Six Books is a contribution towards the mutual curiosity, tolerance, and force of collective enterprise and shared humanity that characterizes the international and ancient Arts of writing and spoken performance

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Part of Sixty-Six Books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible. Play is A response to the King James Bible book of Jude

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Oberon Books (2011) >>>    978-1849432276

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Hecuba

Hecuba
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Original Playwright - euripides

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Contained in: "Grief Lessons" published by New York Review of Books 2008   978-1590172537

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Genre:
Translation

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Heracles

Heracles
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Original Playwright - euripides

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Grief Lessons" published by New York Review of Books 2008   978-1590172537

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Hippolytus

Hippolytus
the Goddess Aphrodite is angry that Hippolytus worships Artemis and not her. So she makes Hippolytus' stepmother Phaedra to fall in love with him. When Phaedra discovers what has happened she commits suicide but not before leaving a suicide note in which she says Hippolytus raped her. theseus asks his Father Poseidon to punish Hippolytus who has him killed. Artemis who knew the truth and could have intervened then tells theseus what really happened

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Original Playwright - euripides

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Grief Lessons" published by New York Review of Books 2008   978-1590172537

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Translation

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Orestes

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Original Playwright - euripides

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Supernatural Wife

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annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar's Big Dance theater makes its BaM debut with the New York premiere of Supernatural Wife. This dance-theater adaptation of euripides' alkestis tells the tale of King admetos, who avoids death by sending a surrogate, his wife, in his stead. Utilizing anne Carson's spare and immediate translation of one of the great Dramatic works based on Greek mythology - and harnessing the gestures of early cinema and the dark meloDrama of Yiddish theater to relate the play's tragicomic events - Supernatural Wife explores the timeless themes of death, grief, and self-sacrifice through a fluid mix of dance, theater, music, and video.
- nytheatre.com

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Original Playwright - euripides

1st Produced:
Bam Harvey Theatre, 651 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, Ny 11217    29 Nov 2011

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Genre:
dance theatre

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