EUGENE LABICHE (1815 - 1888)
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| Nationality: | French |
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Adaptations - Translations of Plays by Eugene Labiche
Coaldust Affair, The |
| 1st Produced: | Chelsea Centre, London | 1993 | ||||
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| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche | |||||
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Friends Of A Feather |
| 1st Produced: | Shaw Festival, Mainstage | 1984 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press , Toronto, 1984 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | 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 | |||||
Italian Straw Hat, An |
| 1st Produced: | Shaftesbury, London | 1986 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Unpublished, | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche | |||||
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Italian Straw Hat, An |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Translation | - | 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 | |||||
Italian Straw Hat, An |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Translation | - | 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 | |||||
It's All Relative |
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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: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Just Good Friends |
| 1st Produced: | East Grinstead | 1967 | ||||
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| 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: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche | |||||
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Men of Letters |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | New Playwrights Network, 1975 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche, "La Grammaire" (1867) | |||||
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New Girl In Town |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1957 | ||||
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| 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: | Musical Adaptation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Eugene O'Neill. music and lyrics by Bob Merrill, adaptation of the play Anna Christie | |||||
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Perrichon's Travels |
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| 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: | Comedy | Translation | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 6 |
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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". | |||||
Pots Of Money |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in "A Dozen French Farces" French, New York, | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Translated | - | Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| 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 | |||||
Threesome, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
| Company: | 606 Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London, 2000 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| 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. | |||||