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Brian FitzGibbon

BRIAN FITZGIBBON  (1960 - )

 Nationality:    Irish
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Brian's one-act play "The Papar", was staged by the abbey Theatre at the Peacock in Dublin in 1997, and subsequently adapted into a short film called "Stranded" (watch film), premiered at the Tribeca Film Center in New York one year later. an Icelandic translation of the play was broadcast on Icelandic radio in 2005 and nominated for a Icelandic Griman award the same year. His full-length play, "another Man", was a finalist at the Playwrights Slam at the 2005 Chichester Theatre Festival in the UK. a radio adaptation of the play was broadcast on Icelandic State radio in the spring of 2008 and nominated for an Icelandic Griman award. He has also translated a vast array of film scripts, treatments, stage plays and novels from Italian, French and Icelandic. His translation of the Icelandic cult novel "101 Reykjavik" by Hallgrimur Helgason, published by Faber & Faber in the UK and Scribner in the US in 2002, was hailed by the Guardian as "dazzling" (read Guardian review) and the New York Times as "lucid"(read NYT review).

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 Easy Now, Electra         Papar, The

Easy Now, Electra

Synopsis:
a mother and daughter - both actresses - have been taking part in an improvised play but something went wrong and it did not finish. Now they are locked in a room going over and over their performances.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Hrafnhildur Hagalin Gudmundsdottir

1st Produced:
National Theatre of Iceland    2000

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Modern Women Playwrights of Europe" published by Oxford University Press, 2000   -

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Translation

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Papar, The

Synopsis:
Three Irish hermits struggle for survival in a self-imposed exile in medieval Iceland when the island was still uninhabited by man. They have surrendered themselves to god in what could be a supreme act of faith or total folly. These hermits are referred to in Icelandic sources as the "Papar". . .

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Genre:
dramatic with touches of wry humour One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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