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JEAN-MARIE BESSET (1959 - ) |
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Nationality: French Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: United Agents represented by Nicki Stoddart |
Born in Carcassonne, Jean-Marie Besset spent his childhood and adolescence in the nearby small town of Limoux, in Southwest France, until his Baccalaureat (1977). With degrees in business (Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales, 1981) and political sciences (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, 1984), he divided for twelve years his time between Paris and New York. In 1999-2000, he returned to France to become the artistic director of the Théâtre de l'Atelier, a landmarked Paris theatre acquired by Laura Pels. Since 2000, in partnership with producer/director Gilbert Désveaux, he has formed the company BCDV THEATRE to initiate and mount projects (among which, a summer theatre festival, NAVA -New Authors in the Aude Valley.) In 2001-04, he was elected on the board of the Society of French Playwrights (SACD). He's a literary consultant for the Theatre du Rond Point and has just been appointed Director of the Centre-Dramatique National du Languedoc-Roussillon in Montpelier (from Jan 1 2010). DICATE OF DRAMA CRITICS. Besset is also laureate of the ACADEMIE FRANCAISE (New Theatre Prize, 1998; Grand Theatre Prize, 2005), and was made Chevalier (1995), then Officier (2002) in the ORDER OF ARTS AND LETTERS. With fellow playwright Mark O'Donnell, he completed a new English version of Feydeau's A FLEA IN HER EAR directed by Bill Irwin at the Roundabout Theatre (New York, Feb-May 1998). For the screen, Besset co-wrote THE PROPRIETOR, an original screenplay for Merchant Ivory Productions (1995), and has developed film version of his plays, GRANDE ECOLE (Robert Salis; 2004), COMMENTAIRE D'AMOUR (in project), and his stageplay RER was filmed (THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN /André Téchiné, 2009). More recently, Jean-Marie has adapted Alan A|yckbourn's LIFE OF RILEY (to be made into a film by Alain Resnais). Recent translations for the stage include Oscar Wilde's THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (to be produced in 2013 in Montpellier and Paris), Will Eno's MIDDLETOWN, Edward Albee's AT HOME AT THE ZO0 and Pinter's ASHES TO ASHES. Jean-Marie has also written two new stageplays, LE BANQUET D'AUTEUIL, LE KINE DE CARCASSONNE (in collaboration with Regis de Matrin-Donos), ROCHE FERRE, A CASE OF LEGAL MEDICINE and he is just completing a four-hander, LA FILLE ET LE GARCON.
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Jean-Marie Besset
Babylone | ||
| 1st Produced: | Coventry: Belgrade Theatre, Belgrade Square, Coventry CV1 1GS >>>" target="_blank">Coventry: Belgrade Theatre, England, Eur >>> | 27 Oct 2009 | ||||
Organisations: | The Fish Patnership | |||||
| 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 | #107303 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset. Written in 2002 | |||||
Synopsis: | A safe bourgeois existence collapses as, on a cold Christmas Eve, two men meet in the foyer of an appartment block in the well-healed Rue de Babylone in Paris. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Baron | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1997 | ||||
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 | #57050 | |||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Best Of Schools | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1990 | ||||
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 | #57047 | |||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Best Of Schools | ||
| 1st Produced: | UBU Repertory Theatre | 1993 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | UBU Repertory Theater (January 1, 1993) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0913745342 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135603 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset | |||||
| Dangerous liaisons among six students during their first term at a French Ivy League school | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Commentaire d'Amour | ||
| 1st Produced: | reading at Tristan Bates Theatre, London | 2006 | ||||
Organisations: | Operating Theatre Company, London | |||||
| 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 | #51624 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset. part of Autumns Writers' Block. Written by Jean-Marie Besset, Translated by Christopher Ashley and Jean-Marie Besset | |||||
Synopsis: | In Commentaire d'Amour the battle of the sexes is updated to the battle of the sexualities, and explores the limits of friendship. Guillaume, grieving for the love of his life, turns to his friend Mathilde for comfort. When Guillaume chooses to love again, he jeopardizes his friendship with Mathilde, who finds herself in a complex maze of modern relationships and all their possibilities. It is a profoundly human story, analysing relationships between friends of opposite genders and diving into the complexities of sexual roles and passion. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Flea In Her Ear, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Roundabout Theatre, New York | 1998 | ||||
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 | #158307 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset. An adaptation of "A Flea In Her Ear" by Georges Feydeau | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Foreign Fair, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1986 | ||||
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 | #57045 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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French Heart, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1995 | ||||
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 | #57049 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Function, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1985 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Gay Plays: An International Anthology" published by Ubu Repertory Theatre Publishers 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0913745211 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #47129 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Greeks, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2003 | ||||
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 | #57053 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Marie Hasparren | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1992 | ||||
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 | #57048 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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New York School, The | ||
| 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 | #57051 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rer | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2005 | ||||
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 | #57054 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rue De Babylone | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2002 | ||||
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 | #57052 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Villa Luco | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1984 | ||||
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 | #57044 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
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Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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What You Get And What You Expect | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1988 | ||||
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 | #57046 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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What You Get And What You Expect | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #135602 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean-Marie Besset | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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