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Gisli Orn Gardarsson

GISLI ORN GARDARSSON  

 Nationality:    Icelandic
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below is a list of Gisli Orn Gardarsson's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Love - The Musical         Metamorphosis         Woyzeck

Love - The Musical

Synopsis:
a geriatric romcom told through snatches of popular song. Set in a nursing home, it relates the story of Margaret, who is left there for the weekend by her son and falls head over heels for another inmate called Neville.
Robert Shore, Metro London

Notes:
by Gisli Orn Gardarsson, Adapted by David far from A literal translation by Hjortur Gretarsson

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Metamorphosis

Gisli Orn Gardarsson
a six-legged nightmare by Franz Kafka. The ordinary, unremarkable life of the Samsas is turned upside down when their son Gregor emerges one morning transformed into a monstrous insect. as revulsion turns into resentment, strange things start to happen to the Samsa family

Notes:
from book by Franz Kafka Adapted by David Farr And Gisli Orn Gardarsson

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Oberon Books, London >>>, 2006   978-1840026887

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Woyzeck

Synopsis:
features aerialism, grotesque visuals, ravishing underwater movement and a thrilling, bitterly witty score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. Tells the story, based on real events, of a poor soldier, ground down by social injustice. Driven mad by the discov

Notes:
Original Playwright - Georg Buchner. Adapted by Gisli Orn Gardarsson, translated by Ruth Little, Gisli Orn Gardarsson And Jon Atli Jonasson

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Organisations:
Vesturport Theatre

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  1            Other:  chorus

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