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AKOS NEMETH (1964 - ) |
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Nationality: Hungarian Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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AKOS NEMETH (born 18 July )1964, Szekesfehervar, Hungary, playwright. Freelancer, since 2002 he is the Hungarian curator of "Bonner New Plays from Europe Festival" (since 2004 called Wiesbadener). His plays were put on stage in many Hungarian theatres and universities of theatre. Some of his plays were adapted for audio-drama or tv-films. The play "Muller's Dancers" was his first success staged by Katona Jozsef Theater, Budapest in1992, stayed in repertory during many years, and presented in the festival of European Theater Union. His works were also put on stage in German, Austrian, French, Croatian, Polish, English and American theaters. The Deutschlandradio in Berlin, the Bulgarian and Croatian national radios broadcasted his audio-dramas. The performances were invited to several festivals for ex. Convention Theatrale Europeenne (Luxembourg), International Young Playrwights` Festival, (Birmingham), Midtown International Theatre Festival New York, US etc. His comedy "Car Thiefs" was presented in the National Theater in London and performed in The Rep Theatre, Birmingham, his play "The Web Emporium" was staged in New York City by an off-Broadway-theatre. He has written a one-act play for the Schaubuhne in Berlin which was part of the performance "Orientexpress" and was invited in the FIND festival/Berlin . Some of his plays were published in numerous languages.
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Akos Nemeth
Car Thieves | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840024708 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #119353 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Akos Nemeth. literal translation by Katalin Trencsenyi And David Evans | |||||
| A group of young people involved in sex, drugs and petty crime meet big-time Mafiosi against the backdrop of semi-underworld Budapest today. None of the characters seems to know what he or she is doing, yet still they try to cheat one another and their own fate. A dry, quirky, fast, rude and at times extremely funny snapshot of the urban scene in Hungary today. | |||||
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Muller`s Dancers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hampstead Theatre, London, UK (rehearsed reading) | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Hungarian Plays (International collection), Nick Hern Books Ltd, London ,UK (1996) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854592446 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #183501 | |||
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Genre: | translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Akos Nemeth | |||||
| Muller, an exceptional choreograph talent, has deserted the company he`s founded, and his dancers find themselves with no leader. Their careers and private lives fall apart without him, but they must find ways to survive and stand on their own feet. Their chaotic love affairs and failed attempts to make a living by their art (or by corrupting their ideals) articulate their sense of loss, and the dept owed the their leader. | |||||
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web-emporium, the | ||
| 1st Produced: | Threshold Theatre Co, New York, New York, US | 2013 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "New Theatre plays from Europe and South America", Druckhaus Kothen ,Leipzig, Germany / www.platform11.eu | ISBN/ASIN: | 978 - 3 - 00 -03 4352 -0 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #183294 | |||
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Genre: | translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Akos Nemeth | |||||
Synopsis: | Two 14 years old girl Martina and Mercella meet by chance in an empty playground at night. It turns out from their discussion that both are lonely, their schoolmates don't accept them moreover they are excluded from their company. They discover soon how they can provoke the recognition of their mates: starting business with medicines at the beginning with trendy prescribed slim drugs. At first they get the prescriptions easily with the help of stolen prescription pads. They have no idea of the trouble they get into. The girls become very popular amongst their mates and they are considered very cool. Their activity attracts the attention of the drug dealers of the neighbourhood and the police as well but for the present non of them could find the girls. The business starts booming so much that the girls decide to establish a webshop in order to spread the goods. Amongst their costumers appear strangers and adults also. The clientele starts to become more and more bizarre in the ballet school, in the schoolyard, in the playground. The two girls are already business-women, Martina makes much more money than her father who is a bus driver. . . | |||||
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