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ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT (1960 - ) |
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Nationality: French Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Within a decade, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt has become one of the most read and acted French-language authors in the world. Born in 1960, he attended the prestigious Ecole Normale Superieure where he was awarded a doctorate in Philosophy and the top French teaching qualification. Schmitt first made a name for himself in the theatre with The Visitor, a play that posits a meeting between Freud and - possibly - God; the work soon became a classic and is now part of international repertoire. Further successes quickly followed, including Enigma Variations, The Libertine, Between Worlds, Partners in Crime, My Gospels and Sentimental Tectonics. Acclaimed by audiences and critics alike, his plays have won several Moličres and the French Academy's 'Grand Prix du Theātre'. His works are now played in over 40 countries. More recently, the four novellas that make up his Cycle de l'Invisible, a series of tales dealing with childhood and spirituality, have met with huge success both on stage and in the bookshops. These are Milarepa, Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Oscar and the Lady in Pink and Noah's Child. Much of his literary career has been devoted to writing novels. An early novel, The Sect of the Egoists, was followed by novels of light, The Gospel According to Pilate, and shadows,
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Between Worlds | ||
| 1st Produced: | Union Theatre, London | 2006 | ||||
Organisations: | Melmoth Productions | |||||
| 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 | #57478 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Eric-Emanuel Schmitt | |||||
Synopsis: | The play presents a hotel lobby as an afterlife cliche, where the spirits of coma victims await an elevator to take them up to death or back down to their bodies | |||||
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Enigma Variations | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30647 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Eric-Emanuel Schmitt | |||||
Synopsis: | Nobel Prize-winning author Abel Znorko lives as a recluse on a remote island in the Norwegian Seas. For fifteen years, his one friend and soulmate has been Helen, from whom he has been physically separated for the majority of their affair. Journalist Erik Larsen arrives to interview Znorko about his latest book, which is, in fact, a transcript of correspondence between the author and Helen. As Larsen seeks to unmask the identity of Helen, Znorko becomes infuriated. Evasions and lies twist into increasingly complex puzzles. Is Larsen really a journalist? Is it possible that both Znorko and Larsen love the same woman? Is Helen still alive? Slowly the barriers between the two men begin to fall as the profound mysteries of intimacy rise in their place. | |||||
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Enigmatic Variations | ||
| 1st Produced: | Savoy, London | 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 | #58083 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Eric-Emanuel Schmitt | |||||
Synopsis: | A revered author entertains a tame journalist. They shared the same woman, who has died of cancer. And they wrote letters to each other. | |||||
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Monsieur Ibrahim And The Flowers Of The Qur'an | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | - - - | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413775900 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #46918 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Eric-Emanuel Schmitt. Translated by Patrick Driver and Patricia Benecke | |||||
Synopsis: | Paris in the 1960s. Thirteen-year-old Moses lives in the shadow of his less-than loving father. When he's caught stealing from wise old shopkeeper Monsieur Ibrahim, he discovers an unlikely friend and a whole new world. Together they embark on a journey that takes them from the streets of Paris to the whirling dervishes of the Golden Crescent. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Monsieur Ibrahim And The Flowers Of The Qur'an | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | - - - | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413775900 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #46917 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Eric-Emanuel Schmitt. Translated by Patrick Driver and Patricia Benecke | |||||
| Paris in the 1960s. Thirteen-year-old Moses lives in the shadow of his less-than loving father. When he's caught stealing from wise old shopkeeper Monsieur Ibrahim, he discovers an unlikely friend and a whole new world. Together they embark on a journey that takes them from the streets of Paris to the whirling dervishes of the Golden Crescent. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Monsieur Ibrahim And The Flowers Of The Qu'ran | ||
| 1st Produced: | McGinn/Cazale Theatre, New York | 18 Jan 2003 | ||||
Organisations: | The Play Company | |||||
| 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 | #124301 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Eric-Emanuel Schmitt. Translated by Patrick Driver and Patricia Benecke | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Oscar and the Pink Lady | ||
| 1st Produced: | Florence Gould Hall | 2009 | ||||
Organisations: | FIAF in association with Eightyone Productions | |||||
| 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 | #84634 | |||
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Genre: | Monolgue play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Eric-Emanuel Schmitt. Based on the book "Oscar" by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt | |||||
Synopsis: | Oscar is terminally ill with cancer. He is befriended by a hospital visitor Granny Rose. She has him believe that each day is a decade of his life and each evening Oscar writes to God about what has happened. | |||||
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