EUGENE LABICHE   (1815 - 1888)
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Eugene Labiche
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Adaptations - Translations of Plays by Eugene Labiche

EUGENE LABICHE
Coaldust Affair, The
1st Produced:
Chelsea Centre, London
1993
Company:
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1st Published:
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ISBN
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Parts:
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Female
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche
Synopsis:
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ALLAN STRATTON
Friends Of A Feather
1st Produced:
Shaw Festival, Mainstage
1984
Company:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press , Toronto, 1984
ISBN
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Genre:
Adapatation/translation
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Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
2 extras
Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche and A Delacour (Celimare). Performance Rights : The Core Group Talent Agency
Synopsis:
Newlywed Celimare dodges former flames, jealous husbands and suspicious in-laws in this hilarious adaptation of the classic French farce
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RAY COONEY
Italian Straw Hat, An
1st Produced:
Shaftesbury, London
1986
Company:
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1st Published:
Unpublished,
ISBN
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Genre:
Adapatation/translation
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche
Synopsis:
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LYNN HOFFMAN
Italian Straw Hat, An
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,
ISBN
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Genre:
Translation
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Parts:
Male
9
Female
5
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche. Adapted by Lynn and Theodore Hoffman
Synopsis:
the hero is about to get married when two lovers turn up and announce his horse as eaten her hat and they will not leave the bridal chamber until he produces another one
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THEODORE HOFFMAN
Italian Straw Hat, An
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,
ISBN
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Genre:
Translation
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Parts:
Male
9
Female
5
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche. Adapted by Lynn and Theodore Hoffman
Synopsis:
the hero is about to get married when two lovers turn up and announce his horse as eaten her hat and they will not leave the bridal chamber until he produces another one
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NORMAN R SHAPIRO
It's All Relative
1st Produced:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "A Flea In Her Ear and Other Vintage French Farces" published by Applause Books, New York,
ISBN
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Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche
Synopsis:
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MICHAEL HURST
Just Good Friends
1st Produced:
East Grinstead
1967
Company:
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1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
Adapatation/translation
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Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche
Synopsis:
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FRED PARTRIDGE
Men of Letters
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
New Playwrights Network, 1975
ISBN
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Genre:
Adapatation/translation
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche, "La Grammaire" (1867)
Synopsis:
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GEORGE ABBOTT
New Girl In Town
1st Produced:
New York
1957
Company:
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1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
Musical Adaptation
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene O'Neill. music and lyrics by Bob Merrill, adaptation of the play Anna Christie
Synopsis:
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DAVID NICHOLSON
Perrichon's Travels
1st Produced:
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1st Published:
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ISBN
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Genre:
Comedy
Translation
Parts:
Male
3
Female
6
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche. A translation of Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon, written by leading Paris playwright Eugène Labiche and collaborator Édouard Martin in 1860. Performed at the Comédie-Française in Paris as recently as the 2008-9 season, this jewel of 19th century French "boulevard comedy" has been too long neglected in the English-speaking world.
Synopsis:
Perrichon is the proverbial successful businessman - comfortable, excessively sure of himself, spectacularly devoid of self-awareness, who can soldier on through any calamity except being obliged to feel grateful. As the play opens, Perrichon is leading his wife and daughter Henriette on their first ever vacation - to Mont Blanc by train. Armand and Daniel show up at the train station - two young men who have both fallen in love with Henriette and agree to be friendly adversaries for her hand. Armand gains the first advantage by rescuing Perrichon from a crevasse on the glacier. Daniel shrewdly arranges an opportunity to fall in a crevasse himself, so that Perrichon can be a hero (a more congenial role than that of rescued victim). Perrichon rashly writes a note insulting a travelling military man, who ends up challenging him to a duel back in Paris. Armand comes close to ruining his chance to marry Henriette by extricating her father from this danger as well - until Perrichon overhears Daniel laughingly assess him as "an imbecile who can only bear the crushing weight of gratitude for a few minutes at a time".
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ALBERT BERMEL
Pots Of Money
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
in "A Dozen French Farces" French, New York,
ISBN
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Genre:
Translated
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Parts:
Male
13
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche and A Delacour; aka The Piggy Bank
Synopsis:
about a group of rural card cheats who pool their money to go on a spending spree in Paris, they go afoul of the law when they run up bills they cannot pay
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NEIL BARTLETT
Threesome, The
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
606 Theatre
1st Published:
Oberon Books, London, 2000
ISBN
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Genre:
Adapatation/translation
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Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche (Le Plus Hereux Des Trois)
Synopsis:
Paris, 1870. Adultery ought to be a serious business& But its hard to keep your dignity when the cleaning lady has a fireman in your kitchen and she suspects that something is up. Not to mention the fact that your lover is not only stuck halfway up a drainpipe but is also your husbands very best friend. And as for the blackmailing taxi driver - he knows everything! The Threesome is a feast of finely tuned extra-marital mayhem from the master of French farce.
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