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Laurence Senelick

LAURENCE SENELICK

  
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Laurence Senelick is the Director of Graduate Studies, Fletcher Professor of Drama and Oratory, at Tufts University. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard. His expertise is in Russian theatre and drama, history of popular entertainment, gender and performance, history of directing, classical theory. Prof. Senelick is the author or editor of more than twenty-five books, the most recent being, Soviet Theatre: A Documentary History; Stanislavsky: A Life in Letters; and The American Stage: Writing on the American Theatre (Library of America) and A Historical Dictionary of Russian Theatre. Others books include: The Chekhov Theatre: A Century of the Plays in Performance and The Changing Room: Sex, Drag, and Theatre, as well as over a hundred articles in learned journals. He is a former Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin. Prof. Senelick was named Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011. Prof. Senelick has been named a Distinguished Scholar by both the American Society of Theatre Research and the Faculty Research Awards Council of Tufts University. He is the recipient of grants and awards from, among others, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. He has received the Barnard Hewitt Award of the American Society for Theatre Research for The Chekhov Theatre; the George Freedley Award of the Theatre Library Association for The Age and Stage of George L. Fox and The Changing Room; and the George Jean Nathan Award for best dramatic criticism of 2000. He holds the St. George medal of the Russian Ministry of Culture for services to Russian art and scholarship, and is honorary curator of Russian theatre at the Harvard Theatre Collection. He was also awarded a stipend from the TranScript/Mikhail Prokhorov Fund for Translation from the Russian. In 2008 he won the Graduate Teaching award (doctoral level) of the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools and in 2012 the Betty Jean Jones Prize of American Theatre and Drama Society for Distinguished Teaching. He is a widely produced translator of plays from such authors as Chekhov and Feydeau, and director at Tufts of his own translations of The Inspector General, The Bakkhai, and Anything to Declare? He has acted and directed with such organizations as the Poets' Theatre, the Loeb Drama Center, the Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Baroque, the Actors Theatre of Louisville, and the revue The Proposition. He recently devised new courses on Cabaret, Theatre and Visual Studies, and Low Comedy and played Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape at the Balch Arena Theatre. His recipes appear in the Bon Appetit cookbooks.

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         Anything To Declare?         Cherry Orchard, The         Dead Souls         Ghost Sonata         Inspector General, The         Love and Intrigue         Mad Woman of Chaillot
Anything To Declare?

Synopsis:
Panic is the chief ingredient of ANYTHING TO DECLARE?, a 1906 French farce. . .. as the emergencies mount for a bashful bridegroom, his hypocritical father-in-law, a frustrated former suitor and a de-pantsed camel dealer.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Pierre Veber. Maurice Hennequin/Pierre Veber/Trans. By Laurence Senelick

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Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    

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Cherry Orchard, The

Synopsis:
the play, often seen as a cultural microcosm with ruminations about life and death, family, love and money, covers all the bases with a hearty cast of 16 characters to tell the embedded stories. Co-directors Christopher Henley and Gaurav GopAlan create a world of fantasy and farce to relay the alarmingly relevant passages that mirror the state of our own affairs in this day and time. the action of the play revolves around the characters' interconnections as they relate to the disposition of the cherry orchard, its ancestral legacy, the endangerment of being sold, and the final act of its demise.
- Debbie Minter Jackson, DC theatre Scene

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
Clark Street Playhouse At 601 S. Clark St., Crystal City (Arlington), Va     2009

Organisations:
Washington Shakespeare Company

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Translation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  16 actors

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Dead Souls

Synopsis:
A theatrical extravaganza drawn from Nikolay Googol's comic epic of greed and gluttony in tsarist Russia.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Maurice Hennequin. Maurice Hennequin/Pierre Veber/Trans. By Laurence Senelick

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1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  -            Female:  7            Other:  any number of actors

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Ghost Sonata

Synopsis:
Ghosts drift through Strindberg's haunted and haunting dreamscape where a student idealizes the inhabitants of a stylish Stockholm apartment building, only to discover that their lives, perhaps even life itself, may be a kind of hell from which salvation can only be achieved through suffering.

Notes:
Original Playwright - August Strindberg

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http://www.broadwayplaypub.com/   

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Genre:
translation 90 min

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Male:  7            Female:  7            Other:  bit parts

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Inspector General, The

Synopsis:
the emperor daigned to attend the premiere with the heir apparent: he was extremely pleased, and laughed heartily. the play is very entertaining, but an intolerable insult to the nobility, the civil service and the merchantry. - Khrapovitsky's diary, 1836

Notes:
from novel by Nikolai Gogol

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1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    

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Love and Intrigue

Synopsis:
the play deals with one of the most controversial issues of Schiller's day - class discrimination . . . Ferdinand von Walter is the son of President von Walter, the unscrupulous chief administrator of a duchy. Ferdinand loves Luise Miller, the daughter of a lowborn musician. To break up the affair, which he regards as a threat to his political ambitions, the president employs the services of a slick opportunist, Wurm. Together they launch a cabal to convince Ferdinand that Luise is promiscuous. Believing the lies, Ferdinand poisons Luise and himself, only to realize the truth just before he dies.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Friedrich von Schiller

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Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Mad Woman of Chaillot

Mad Woman of Chaillot
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Giraudoux

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1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing   

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Genre:
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