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Victorien Sardou

VICTORIEN SARDOU   (1831 - 1908)

Nationality:   French    Email:   n/a   Website:   n/a

Literary Agent:  n/a

Victorien Sardou was born of September 5th 1831 in Paris. His family had moved there after a severe winter had wiped out the olive trees on their estate. Sardou took numerous teaching jobs and wrote articles for encyclopaedias. He began to write plays and in 1854 his first work was produced "La Taverne des Etudaints" but was hurriedly taken off after riots. The theatre goers rioted because it was thought the French government had paid Sardou to insult students. By 1857 he was dying and living in abject poverty. However, one of the other tenants of the house was someone with theatrical connections -Mlle de Brecourt. She nursed him back to health and with her connections his play "Candide" was to be performed. Unfortunately the censor banned it. He went on to write for Sarah Bernhardt and Sir Henry Irving. One of his plays written for Bernhardt ""La Tosca" was made into an opera by Puccini. In the 1860s he caused great stir in spiritualist circles with his "automatic drawings" including dwelling places on the planet Jupiter. He died on November 8th 1908 from Pulmonary congestion

Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Victorien Sardou

HENRY BEDLOW  

Black Pearl, The

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

Bibliolife 2008

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0559517020

Music:

-

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#111482

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Victorien Sardou

Black Pearl, The

n/a

Further Reference:

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GRACE ISABEL COLBRON  

Anatol

1st Produced:

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- - -

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

Contained in: "Anatol" published by Roth Publishing Inc 1983

ISBN/ASIN:

9780848620226

Music:

-

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#134926

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Victorien Sardou

Synopsis:

n/a

Further Reference:

-


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DAVID NICHOLSON  

Cyprienne

1st Produced:

Village Playhouse, Toronto, ON

2009

Organisations:

Village Players, Toronto, CAN >>>

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#89436

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Genre:

Comedy Translation

Parts:

Male

4

Female

4

Parts other:

(with doubling of minor parts)

Notes:

Original Playwright - Victorien Sardou. Translated from Divorçons. Victorien Sardou, the most successful French playwright of his age (with collaborator emile de Najac); adapted from its original 1880 setting to 1921. Sardou's Cyprienne - witty, impatient, passionate, playful - has served as a star vehicle for actresses from Eleonore Duse to Uta Hagen.

Synopsis:

In a setting of upcoming Divorce Act amendments, Henri Des Prunelles suspects that his young wife Cyprienne has been flirting with his cousin Adhemar - and more. When confronted, Cyprienne justifies her actions as those of a young wife married to an older man - unlike him, she hasn't tasted the best of life yet and prefers the excitement of exotic spices over the regularity of wheat germ. A crafty Henri turns the situation around by agreeing to a divorce, whereupon the young cousin assumes a new, boring status of husband-to-be and Henri takes on the allure of forbidden fruit. The only way Henri can convince Cyprienne he doesn't have a lover himself, is to invite her to a romantic "divorce dinner" at his old bachelor bistro. Champagne, laughter, fine food and making sport of Adhemar rekindles their love and saves their marriage.

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FRANK J MORLOCK  

Don Quixote

1st Produced:

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- - -

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

Borgo Press

ISBN/ASIN:

978-1434457370

Music:

-

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#111636

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Victorien Sardou

Don Quixote

n/a

Further Reference:

-


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ANGELA GOLDSBY  

Let's Get A Divorce

1st Produced:

London

1966

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

Samuel French, London, 1958

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#55048

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

8

Female

5

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Victorien Sardou and Emile de Najac. Written by Angela ans Robert Goldsby

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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ROBERT GOLDSBY  

Let's Get A Divorce

1st Produced:

London

1966

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

Samuel French, London, 1958

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#13833

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

8

Female

5

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Victorien Sardou and Emile de Najac. Written by Angela ans Robert Goldsby

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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GRACE ISABEL COLBRON  

Living Hours

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

Contained in: "Anatol" published by Roth Publishing Inc 1983

ISBN/ASIN:

9780848620226

Music:

-

doollee no

#134928

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Victorien Sardou

Synopsis:

n/a

Further Reference:

-


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GRACE ISABEL COLBRON  

Green Cockatoo, The

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

Contained in: "Anatol" published by Roth Publishing Inc 1983

ISBN/ASIN:

9780848620226

Music:

-

doollee no

#134927

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Victorien Sardou

Synopsis:

n/a

Further Reference:

-


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L GILMOUR  

Scrap of Paper, A

1st Produced:

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- - -

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

Contained in: "Camille and Other Plays" published by Hill Nad Wang

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0809007066

Music:

-

doollee no

#111762

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Victorien Sardou

Scrap of Paper, A

n/a

Further Reference:

-


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VICTORIEN SARDOU  

Scrap of Paper , A

1st Produced:

Greenwich Street Theatre, NY, USA >>>

2004

Organisations:

MTB Studios

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#77454

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Genre:

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Parts:

Male

-

Female

0

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Victorien Sardou

Synopsis:

n/a

Further Reference:

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