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BIRGIT SCHREYER DUARTE
Nationality: German
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Birgit Schreyer Duarte is a director, Dramaturg and translator for the Theatre. She holds an MA in Theatre Studies and Dramaturgy from Munich University / Bavarian Theatre Academy, and a PhD in Drama from the University of Toronto. Part of her translations have been published by Seagull Books India and staged internationally.
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Biography: A Game (Biografie: Ein Spiel) Boulevard of the Brave (Auf der Greifswalder Strasse) Life of Galileo Piano Tuner, The Thing, TheBiography: A Game (Biografie: Ein Spiel)
Synopsis:
Middle-aged behavioural researcher Kurmann is given the chance to start over with his life at any given point and "correct" any previous choices he made-from his failed marriage, lack of political conviction and successful academic career to his poor attention to health and the color of his living-room furniture. Yet, despite his intention to apply whatever wisdom he acquired, Kurmann finds himself inexorably trapped by the same decisions. Ultimately proving fatal, Kurmann's life "game" echoes the reconstruction of a lost chess game that interrogates how much of our own path is shaped by other, seemingly random factors and how much is in fact predetermined by our own limited, conditioned selves. the idea that our lives are nothing but a self-conscious play with imaginary identities is brilliantly captured in Biography's Dramaturgical form that sets up a theatre rehearsal as the metaphor for the game of life with its seemingly endless possibilities and variables.
Notes:
Original Playwright - Max Frisch
1st Produced:
Artword Theatre, Toronto May 2004
Organisations:
Atrium Players
1st Published:
Seagull Books India / Suhrkamp 2010 (German original: 1984) -
Music:
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Genre:
Drama/Comedy
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageBoulevard of the Brave (Auf der Greifswalder Strasse)
Synopsis:
In the course of 24 hours, the lives of 37 people who live, work, visit and die on a low-income street in Berlin's North-East intersect in seemingly banal and accidental ways. With his own signature Dramaturgy of laconic, hyper-realistic snap shots, magic realism, fairy tale and prose narrative Roland Schimmelpfennig leads the spectator's gaze back and forth between the two sides of a loud and busy street-from one human fate to the next, spanning generations bound together by this neighborhood of the forgotten.
Notes:
Original Playwright - Roland Schimmelpfennig
1st Produced:
Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, Studio Theatre, University of Toronto 30 Jan 2008
Organisations:
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1st Published:
S. Fischer -
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Genre:
translation / Drama
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 7 Other: with doubling
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Top of PageLife of Galileo
Synopsis:
A contemporary translation of Brecht's timeless classic on the ethics of progress and the responsibility that comes with knowledge. Directed by the sign Brecht had taped above his typewriter, "Simpler, with more laughter, "this translation reveals a play with humour and political and emotional depth that moves quickly on the page and stage. Brecht's play pushes beyond the story of Galileo that we all know-that of a great scientist prosecuted by the ignorant Church and nobly recanting in order to write his world-changing master work in secret-to question the legend that has emerged around this controversial figure. Completed after the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Brecht's Life of Galileo lays bare the notion of scientific research and progress for its own sake. It proposes a social and ethical responsibility for scientists and intellectuals that remains radical in these days of venture capital science and economic justifications. Forcefully asking what the role of the intellectual and thinker is in relation to power and the status quo, Life of Galileo continues to stand as a vitally important Drama.
Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht. Translated by Birgit Schreyer Duarte with Jacob Zimmer
1st Produced:
Berkley Street Theatre, Toronto 30 May 2010
Organisations:
Small Wooden Shoe, Toronto
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
translation / Drama
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Male: 10-20 Female: 10-20 Other: -
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Top of PagePiano Tuner, The
Synopsis:
A famous Italian tenor is shot dead on stage, during a performance of Tosca. the children of the suspect, twins, return to their parents' home in Berlin. Step by step they discover the motives that made their father, a legendary piano tuner and failed opera composer, become a murderer. the story is told from the perspective of the siblings. Years earlier, in an attempt to escape their incestuous love for one another, they separated, moving as far from each other as possible. the tragic event forces the twins to overcome their speechlessness, created by their desire for a "wordless union." Filling notebook after notebook, they begin to address how they once experienced their unique intimacy but also suffered from the disintegration of their family. Through remembering and writing they slowly begin to find and shape their own identities and grow into autonomous individuals.
Notes:
Adaptation of the novel Der Klavierstimmer by Pascal Mercier. Adapted And translated from the German by Birgit Schreyer Duarte
1st Produced:
Cameron House, Toronto 06 Aug 2009
Organisations:
twinwerks / SummerWorks Theatre Festival, Toronto
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageThing, The
Synopsis:
A bickering married couple, two Chinese entrepreneurs, a Swiss eco-farmer and his African assistant and a photographer are all watched by "The Thing" - a giant cotton ball
Notes:
Original Playwright - Philipp Lohle. Original Title - "Das Ding"
1st Produced:
Theatre 503, London -
Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Translation
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
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