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Curt Columbus

CURT COLUMBUS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Gurman Agency LLC  

Curt Columbus joined Trinity Rep as artistic director in January 2006. His directing credits for Trinity include Merchant of Venice, His Girl Friday, Camelot, Cabaret, the Odd Couple, the Secret Rapture, the Receptionist, A Christmas Carol, Memory House, Blithe Spirit, Cherry Orchard and the world premiere of Stephen Thorne's . . .Poe. His plays Paris by Night, the Dreams of antigone and Sparrow Grass premiered at Trinity. His adaptation of Crime and Punishment (with Marilyn Campbell) is published by Dramatists? Play Service. Curt?s translations of Chekhov?s plays are published by Ivan R. Dee, Chekhov: the Four Major Plays. the Dreams of antigone is published by Broadway Play Publishing. Curt lives in Pawtucket with his partner, Nathan Watson.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Curt Columbus's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Crime And Punishment         House Of Antigone         Ivanov         Paris By Night         Seagull         Sparrow Grass         Three Sisters

Crime And Punishment

Crime And Punishment
a brilliant young student, an unorthodox detective, and a young woman forced into a life of prostitution are hurtled together by a brutal act of murder
- press release

Notes:
adapted by Marilyn Campbell And Curt Columbus. 90-minute Adaptation of the famous novel by Dostoevsky

1st Produced:
Writers Theatre, Glencoe, Il     2003

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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing   -

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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House Of Antigone

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Notes:
Based on "antigone" by Sophocles

1st Produced:
Trinity Repertory Theatre, Providence, Rhode Island     2008

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Ivanov

Synopsis:
Often called the comic Russian Hamlet, Chekhov's Nikolai Ivanov is a man constantly at odds with the world around him. His personal and professional lives collide in unexpected and humorous ways, as he struggles to dig himself out of debt and out of provincial boredom. The local doctor informs him that his wife is dying and accuses him of worsening her condition with his foul moods, yet Ivanov finds himself drawn to a beautiful young woman who happens to be the daughter of the family to whom he owes an enormous sum of money. In this fascinating early work by Anton Chekhov, we see the union of humor and pathos that would become his trademark. This version is in a sparkling translation by Curt Columbus, whose Chekhov translations have been proclaimed by Variety as savvy, clear, fair-minded, and right-headed.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov. translated and adapted by Curt Columbus

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015)   978-0822231554

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  8            Female:  8            Other:  doubling

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Paris By Night

Synopsis:
American expat Sam is in Paris. His love affair recently broken up when he meets Buck, a young soldier. Can they survive the prejudice of race and same sex love of the 1960s?

Notes:
Music by Andre Pluess And Amy Warren; lyrics And book by Curt Columbus

1st Produced:
Trinity Repertory Theatre, Providence, Rhode Island     25 Apr 2007

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Musical. - - Gay/Lesbian musical

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Seagull

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Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
325 Tudor Court, Glencoe, IL     2004

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Genre:
Translation

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Sparrow Grass

Synopsis:
Inspired by the Greek myth of Phaedra, SPARROW GRASS brings the classic tragedy into our time when a woman's dark and misdirected passion threatens to destroy her family from within.

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1st Produced:
Trinity Repertory Company, 201 Washington Street, Providence, Ri 02903     01 Feb 2012

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc   978-0822227687

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Genre:
drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Three Sisters

Synopsis:
Somewhere in the backwoods of Russia, the three Prozorov sistersOlga, Masha and Irinalive in the large, beautiful house their Father has left them. Raised to be bastions of refinement and taste, but stranded amongst smalltown folk with no ambition, they cling desperately to memories of the bright, thriving Moscow they left as children. Unable to bear the ordinariness of their lives, tempers flare and all manner of appetites go unchecked, eliciting wild and dangerous responses from those around them and turning the proper Prozorov home into a place where anything can happen. Curt Columbus' THREE SISTERS is Anton Chekhov's rich tapestry of heartbreak and bad behavior.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc   978-0822228592

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Genre:
translation

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  5            Other:  -

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