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HELENE CIXOUS (1937 - ) |
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Nationality: French Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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born in Algeria or French and German Jewish parentage, Cixous is Professor of Literature at the experimental University of Paris VIII and director of the Centre d'Etudes Feminines, founded in 1974. She is the author of over 30 books, including numerous novels and volumes of literary criticism and essays that include several on theatre. Her plays include small-scale psychoanalytical works, which have attracted particular interest in the light of her writings on psychoanalysis, and 'ecriture feminine' such as The Newly Born Woman (with Catherine Clement). Portrait of Dora dramatizes Freud's case study of a hysteric with whom he used dream analysis, presenting events from Dora's point of view. It makes visible the characters' hidden selves, the desires they do not reveal of their own accord and the oppressive bourgeois society of Freud's day. The Name of Oedipus, characteristically linguistically and theatrically experimental, also uses theatre as the space for exploring sexuality. Cixous's later work for theatre includes epic plays for Theātre du Soleil, collaborations with director Ariane Mnouchkine which range from the breadth and sweep of Shakespeare (whom Cixous has translated), to the conflict of East and West , religion and politics in Cambodia under King Sihanouk and the struggle for Indian independence. Untranslated plays include: La Pupille, in Cahiers Renaud-Barrault 1972 v8; L'Arrivante (1977).
She Also Wrote Plays by Susan Croft, pub Faber & Faber London, 2001 (a truly wonderful book - doollee)
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Helene Cixous
Black Sail, White Sail | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
Organisations: | Sphinx | |||||
| 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 | #36333 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Helene Cixous | |||||
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Conquest of the School at Madhubai, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Women & Performance 5, NYU, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54169 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Helene Cixous | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Drums On The Dam | ||
| 1st Produced: | Teatre du Soleil, Paris | 1999 | ||||
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 | #54166 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Helene Cixous. Translated by Judith G Miller and Brian J Mallet | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Drums On The Dam | ||
| 1st Produced: | Teatre du Soleil, Paris | 1999 | ||||
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 | #54164 | |||
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 | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Helene Cixous. Translated by Judith G Miller and Brian J Mallet | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Indiada or The India of Their Dreams | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1987 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The Helene Cixous Reader, ed Susan Sellers, Routledge, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54152 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Helene Cixous | |||||
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Name of Oedipus, The: Song of the Forbidden Body | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1978 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Plays by French and Francophone Women, Michigan UP, Ann Arbor, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54165 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | chorus | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Helene Cixous. Translated by Judith G Miller and Christiane Makward | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Perjured City, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Teatre du Soleil, Paris | 1994 | ||||
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 | #54167 | |||
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 | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Helene Cixous | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Portrait Of Dora | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1973 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Benmussa Directs, John Calder, London, 1979 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54168 | |||
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 | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Helene Cixous | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Terrible but Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1985 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nebraska UP, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54172 | |||
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 | 6 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Helene Cixous. Translated by J. Flower MacCannell, J. Pike and L. Groth | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Terrible but Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1985 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nebraska UP, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54170 | |||
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 | 6 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Helene Cixous. Translated by J. Flower MacCannell, J. Pike and L. Groth | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Terrible but Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1985 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nebraska UP, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54171 | |||
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 | 6 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Helene Cixous. Translated by J. Flower MacCannell, J. Pike and L. Groth | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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