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Michael Roloff

MICHAEL ROLOFF

  (1937 - )
Nationality:    USA
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born Germany

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         Balzac's Godot         Beautiful Days of Arnajuez, The         BLT; or, Last Time is the Best Time, The         Calling For Help         Darlings and Monster's Play, The         Distress Calls         Farmyard         Fernando Krapp Wrote Me this Letter         Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other, The         It Won't Grow Back         Kaspar         Man A Dictionary, A         Men's Business         Michi's Blood         My Foot My Tutor         My Liver Is Sick         Offending the Audience         Palombe Bleu         People Annihilation or My Liver is Senseless         Prophecy         Quodlibet         Radio Play         Ride Across Lake Constance, The         Schizzohawk         Screams for Help         Self-AccUSAtion         System JC UC         they Are Dying Out         Walk About the Villages         Wolves of Wyoming, The

Balzac's Godot

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Honore de Balzac (Le Faiseur)

1st Produced:
Unproduced     1995

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

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Beautiful Days of Arnajuez, The

Synopsis:
?Using a quote from Friedrich Schiller's DON CARLOS Handke has a man and a woman reminisce about their erotic awakening in D.H. Lawrentian? ?language, until it appears their love has reached a forever stage??

Notes:
Original Playwright - Peter Handke, translated by Michael Roloff with Scott Abbott?

1st Produced:
?Theater Y director Zejko Dukic ?     Jun 2016

Organisations:
?Theater Y (Chicago)?

1st Published:
-   

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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BLT; or, Last Time is the Best Time, The

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Calling For Help

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Peter Handke

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "the Ride Across Lake Comstance and Other Plays" published by Farrar StrAus and Giroux, 1976   

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Darlings and Monster's Play, The

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Distress Calls

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Peter Handke

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Genre:
Translation

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Farmyard

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Franz Xaver Kroetz

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1st Published:
Urizen Books,    

Music:
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Fernando Krapp Wrote Me this Letter

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Tankred Dorst

1st Produced:
Seattle     1996

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Johns Hopkins Press,    

Music:
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Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other, The

Synopsis:
postscript by Gitta Honegger

Notes:
Original Playwright - Peter Handke

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Yale University Press,    

Music:
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Translation

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It Won't Grow Back

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
La     1988

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Wages of Anguish Press,    

Music:
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Kaspar

Synopsis:
true story of the mysterious Kaspar Hauser, an adolescent foundling who appeared to have no language

Notes:
Original Playwright - Peter Handke

1st Produced:
Almost Free Theatre, London     1973

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Methuen Drama, London, 1968   

Music:
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Genre:
Drama Translation

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Man A Dictionary, A

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Franz Xaver Kroetz

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Urizen Books,    

Music:
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Men's Business

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Franz Xaver Kroetz

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Urizen Books,    

Music:
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Adaptation

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Michi's Blood

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Franz Xaver Kroetz

1st Produced:
Taller Latinamericano/ Creation Productions, NY     1982

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Urizen Books,    

Music:
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My Foot My Tutor

Synopsis:
starkly simple and yet ultimately frustrating world of an apparently autonomous theatre pantomime

Notes:
Original Playwright - Peter Handke

1st Produced:
Open Space Theatre, London     1971

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Peter Handke Plays One" published by Methuen, 1968   

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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My Liver Is Sick

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Werner Schwab

1st Produced:
Unproduced    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Ariadne Press,    

Music:
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Translation

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Offending the Audience

Synopsis:
a dissection of our expectations about what ought to happen in the theatre

Notes:
Original Playwright - Peter Handke

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Organisations:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Palombe Bleu

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
La     1988

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Wages of Anguish Press,    

Music:
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People Annihilation or My Liver is Senseless

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Werner Schwab

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Seven Contemporary Austrian Plays" published by Ariadne Press, 1995   

Music:
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Translation

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Prophecy

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Peter Handke

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "the Ride Across Lake Comstance and Other Plays" published by Farrar StrAus and Giroux, 1976   

Music:
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Quodlibet

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Peter Handke

1st Produced:
Unproduced    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "the Ride Across Lake Comstance and Other Plays" published by Farrar StrAus and Giroux, 1976   

Music:
-

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Radio Play

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Peter Handke

1st Produced:
Recorded New York     1983

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Farrar StrAus, New York,    

Music:
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Translation

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Ride Across Lake Constance, The

Ride Across Lake Constance, The
declares war on the whole notion of a semiotic scheme or system of categorisation

Notes:
Original Playwright - Peter Handke

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Methuen, London, 1973   

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Schizzohawk

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
La     1988

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Wages of Anguish Press,    

Music:
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Screams for Help

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Peter Handke

1st Produced:
New York     1976

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Farrar StrAus, New York,    

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Self-AccUSAtion

Synopsis:
a cunning and ironic attack on bureaucratic moral guilt

Notes:
Original Playwright - Peter Handke

1st Produced:
Almost Free Theatre, London     1973

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in "Kaspar and Other Plays" published by Farrar StrAus and Giroux, 1969   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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System JC UC

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
La     1988

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Wages of Anguish Press,    

Music:
-

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they Are Dying Out

Synopsis:
portrayal of a capitalist big business man, it is sometimes taken to reveal retrospectively the social impetus in all of Handke;s writing

Notes:
Original Playwright - Peter Handke; in collaboration with Karl Weber

1st Produced:
National Theatre, London     1976

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Methuen, London, 1975   

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Walk About the Villages

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Peter Handke

1st Produced:
Beyond Baroque, Venice Ca     1989

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Ariadne Press, 1995   

Music:
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Wolves of Wyoming, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
La     1988

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Wages of Anguish Press,    

Music:
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