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JEAN-CLAUDE GRUMBERG (1939 - ) |
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Nationality: French Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Jean-Claude Grumberg |
Dreyfus | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1982 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19002 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Claude Grumberg | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dreyfus | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30135 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Claude Grumberg | |||||
Synopsis: | it tells the story of a group of small-time amateur actors in 1930s Poland trying to come to terms with the 1890s military scandal in Paris, the one that unleashed a wave of anti-Semitism which, it could be argued, was still in evidence 50 years later in Vichy France. The trouble is that in the end Grumberg doesn't seem to want to face any of those issues fully enough; he is more concerned with an update of Shakespeare's rustic players in A Midsummer Night's Dream in which we now get Harry Towb as the bully-Bottom figure, a local barber intent on hijacking the play, along with some very good jokes about the ways in which amateur dramatic societies are the same the world over and always have been. But the serious side of Dreyfus, and what it says about the ways of a world about to go up in the flames of the late 1930s, sits uneasily alongside the Yiddish sentimentality of a kind of non-musical Fiddler on the Roof | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dreyfus In Rehearsal | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC | 1974 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #18606 | |||
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Genre: | comedy/drama Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Claude Grumberg | |||||
Synopsis: | The play is set in a Jewish ghetto in Vilna, Poland, in 1931. A group of amateur actors are rehearsing a new play, written by their ambitious young director, about Alfred Dreyfus, the French-Jewish military officer whose persecution was opposed by the eloquent Emile Zola. The performers in this play-within-a-play are all good, kindly people, but they have difficulty in accepting the relevance of the "Dreyfus Affair" to their own situation and, furthermore, are preoccupied with the concerns of their personal liveswhich leads to a series of very funny and often ironic exchanges with their high-strung director. However their placid conviction that anti-Semitism could not exist in the Poland of their time is abruptly shattered when drunken hoodlums break into their rehearsal and attack themafter which the project is abandoned and the shaken cast members flee, one to the Soviet Union, others to England and Germany, but all now deeply disturbed and apprehensiveand nervously facing a future clouded by the menacing spectre of Nazi Germany. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Free Country, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19007 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Claude Grumberg | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Free Zone | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ubu Repertory Theater, New York | 1993 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #91469 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Claude Grumberg | |||||
Synopsis: | When the Germans invaded France a Jewish family fled from Paris to the south of France. They change their names and are taken on by a farmer and given a one room hut to live in. Simon the head of the family worries that they will be discovered - his mother-in-law keeps slipping into Yiddish. He thinks his nephew looks too Jewish and what will happen when his daughter-in-law gives birth and it is a boy? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Workroom, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Organisations: | The Unbound Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84632 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Claude Grumberg. American version by Daniel A. Stein with Sara O'Connor | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Workroom, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Organisations: | The Unbound Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33177 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Claude Grumberg. American version by Daniel A. Stein with Sara O'Connor | |||||
Synopsis: | simple story about seamstresses struggling to recover from the aftermath of world War II | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Workroom, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Drama Contemporary: France" published by PAJ Publications, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #91470 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Claude Grumberg | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Workshop, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oxford Playhouse | 1980 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19025 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Claude Grumberg. aka The Workroom | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in the finishing room of a men's tailoring workshop in Paris after the last war. There is no plot as such; instead, the life ofthe workshop is shown gently unfolding over seven years from the immediate post-Liberation period through the rigours of rationing until 'reality' is restored-and it's business as usual. But the workshop's owner and one of his women employees are Jews, and underneath the cosy, bickering surface of workshop camaraderie the play powerfully depicts the tribulations of those Jews who have survived themselves but have lost loved ones: the process of leaming the meaning of the word 'deported: - Steve grant, Tinme Out | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume I Issue 01 Page 11 | |||||
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