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May-Britt Akerholt

MAY-BRITT AKERHOLT

  
Nationality:    Norwegian
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Born and raised in Norway, May-Brit Akerholt now lives in Australia, where she is a recipient of a Fellowship from the Theatre Board of Australia Council. She has lectured on theatre at NIDA, worked as a Dramaturg and Literary Manager at Sydney Theatre Company and has translated numerous plays.

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         Afternoon         Beautiful         Dead Dogs, The         Death Variations         Dreamed Life Of Nora Schahrazade, The         Government Inspector, The         Italian Straw Hat, An         Living Secretly         Meanwhile the Lights Go Down And Everything Becomes Black         Mother And Child         Red Butterfly's Wings         Sleep         Sleep My Baby Sleep         Suzannah         Telemakos         Unscrupulous Murderer Hasse Karlsson Reveals the Gruesome Truth Of the Woman Who Froze To Death On A Railway Bridge, The         Warm

Afternoon

Afternoon
In afternoon characters come and go in a flat that is for sale, and in Beautiful the past disrupts the present when a man and his family go back to his childhood valley.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jon Fosse

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2004) >>>    978-1840024784

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Beautiful

Beautiful
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jon Fosse

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2004) >>>    978-1840024784

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Dead Dogs, The

Dead Dogs, The
In the Dead Dogs, lives are shockingly disrupted by an event that changes the directions of their future.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jon Fosse

1st Produced:
Rogaland Theatre    30 Apr 2004

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Oberon Books (2011) >>>    978-1849430746

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Death Variations

Death Variations
Death Variations explores different aspects of the themes of death: death of love, death of a relationship, death of happiness, and finally the death of a young person.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jon Fosse

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2004) >>>    978-1840024784

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Dreamed Life Of Nora Schahrazade, The

Synopsis:
a popular Swedish play for young people, this moving script tells the tale of a couple broken by grief at the death of their daughter, Nora. a mystery girl whose imagination knows no bounds comes into their life and together they play out the life of Nora Schahrazade throughout her childhood, until she is old enough to marry and go on a honeymoon far, far away.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Mia Tornqvist. Translator: May Brit Akerholt

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Genre:
Childrens Youth audience

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Government Inspector, The

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Nicolai Gogol. (translated by Neil Armfield, Geoffrey Rush, Lech Mackiewicz And May-Britt Akerholt)

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Italian Straw Hat, An

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Music by Patrick Nellestein; Based on the play by Eugene Labiche

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Genre:
translation/adaptation Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/71182

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Living Secretly

Living Secretly
Living Secretly asks questions about how to live with and open up to one's actions through sequences of time

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jon Fosse

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2011) >>>    978-1849430746

Music:
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Genre:
Translation, short monologue

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Meanwhile the Lights Go Down And Everything Becomes Black

Synopsis:
a sad, simple and beautiful play about the breakdown of two relationships, and the formation of a new one.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jon Fosse

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Mother And Child

Mother And Child
Mother and Child is the intense journey of two individuals trying to connect. Like strangers on a first date, mother and son stalk each other, confronted with a shared history they cannot ignore.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jon Fosse

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2004) >>>    978-1840024784

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Red Butterfly's Wings

Red Butterfly's Wings
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jon Fosse

1st Produced:
aristas UNIDAs, Lisbon, Portugal    2005

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Oberon Books (2011) >>>    978-1849430746

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  3 characters

Further Reference:
-

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Sleep

Sleep
In Sleep, one day captures the lives of a young woman and a young man as they grow into middle-age and old age

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jon Fosse

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2011) >>>    978-1849430746

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Sleep My Baby Sleep

Sleep My Baby Sleep
n Sleep my Baby Sleep three people are in strange unnamed place; through visual and linguistic association they try to decipher their predicament.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jon Fosse

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2004) >>>    978-1840024784

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Suzannah

Suzannah
the whole life of Suzannah Ibsen unfolds as she waits for her playwriting husband to come home

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jon Fosse

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2011) >>>    978-1849430746

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Translation, a kind of monologue for three actors

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Telemakos

Telemakos
Telemakos reinvents an old classic from a contemporary point of view. Fosse's damatic voice is full of poetic intensity, yet wryly ironic, and with a sense of the comedy of the human condition.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jon Fosse

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2011) >>>    978-1849430746

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Unscrupulous Murderer Hasse Karlsson Reveals the Gruesome Truth Of the Woman Who Froze To Death On A Railway Bridge, The

Synopsis:
Hasse Karlsson is on his way to his mother's death bed. During a break in his journey he tells the story of their long-standing disagreement. It is told from the perspective of a bleak childhood landscape where two boys, Hasse and SvAlan meet on the doorstep to another world - and how they practice being adults. To be grown up, is, according to Svalan, to expose the deserving to terror and revenge. Hasse reluctantly becomes ensnared by Svalan's thoughts and is guided towards crimes he does not want to commit.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henning Mankell. Part of the Swedish embassy's Small Feet Go Far Festival. Translator: May Brit Akerholt

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Organisations:
National Theatre Rehearsed Readings

1st Published:
Colombine Teaterforlag,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Warm

Warm
a house, a pier, an ocean. Two men lingering at the edge of the sea. they wait for the woman they can barely recall but will never forget. as forgotten memories and secret desires once more float to the surface, so too does a love story in all its beautiful and heartbreaking forms. Jon Fosse is europe's most prolific and most performed living playwright. He has been likened to 'Ibsen for a new generation and this play is no exception. This is a play of tender precision, a dreamscape, a play stripped down to its emotional essentials, a play for our age and for the people we have become.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jon Fosse

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Presence

1st Published:
Oberon Books (2011) >>>    978-1849430746

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:

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