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RICHARD SANGER (1960 - ) |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: 3SG Talent Management |
Richard Sanger's plays include Not Spain and Two Words for Snow, both of which were shortlisted for the Governor-General's Awards, Canada's highest literary honour. He has also translated Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, Lope de Vega's classic Fuenteovejuna (in English verse) as well as poems from French, German and Spanish. His own poems have appeared in many publications and two collections Shadow Cabinet and Calling Home. He has written many essays and reviews, taught, and been writer-in-residence at various universities. He lives in Toronto.
Plays by Richard Sanger
Fuente Ovejuna | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ryerson Theatre, Toronto | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Ryerson Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadview Press, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61798 | |||
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Genre: | Verse drama Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 16 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | This translation differs from the other modern English versions in that it follows the metre of the original (four stress, octosyllabic lines) and maintains Lope's rhyming schemes (while frequently using half-rhymes "still/well" and assonance "proud/about"). This means this translation is more playable (it moves a lot faster), more polished (it rhymes) and ultimately truer to the spirit of the original. I have also not hesitated to streamline the original where necessary. | |||||
Synopsis: | A new verse translation of Lope de Vega's 1612 Spanish classic. Based on an actual peasant uprising that took place in 1476, it tells the story of an imperious military governor (and war hero) who tyrannizes a small village called Fuenteovejuna, demanding a right to all the women, married and not, until the village, led by one headstrong peasant girl (who claims she has no time for love), finally rebels and lynches him. These dramatic events are complemented by a charming pastoral love story (guess who falls in love), and the courtly intrigue surrounding the succession of Ferdinand and Isabel to the crown of Castile. | |||||
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Not Spain | ||
| 1st Produced: | Toronto | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | (PLCN) Playwrights Canada Press, | ISBN/ASIN: | 0-88754-551-3 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30739 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Sophie, a freelance journalist meets Andrei in a war torn city | |||||
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Two Words For Snow | ||
| 1st Produced: | Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Alberta Theatre Projects | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Guild of Canada | ISBN/ASIN: | 1-55173-578-4 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30740 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This play is based on historical fact. Peary was accompanied by a black man named Matthew Henson on his polar expeditions, including his allegedly successful final 1909 trek; Henson learnt to speak Inuktitut and served as Peary's interpreter on those expeditions; both men fathered children with Inuit women; Peary brought back six Inuit to be put on display at the American Museum of Natural History; when four of them fell ill and eventually died, Henson served as an interpreter for the museum's director, the influential anthropologist, Franz Boas, whose 1911 book, The Handbook of North American Indian Languages, first speculated on the number of Inuit words for snow. These facts and others, and my characters' names are all historical; my play is a work of the imagination. | |||||
Synopsis: | New York, 1935. An old man sits brooding in the Eskimo Room of the American Museum of Natural History. He's black and, all around him, there are dropcloths, which are white, covering up strange shapes. A young man, white, arrives: He's looking for someone called Henson. Who? The old man gives a cold laugh. So begins this play about love, betrayal, and the ambitions of the various men (and one Inuit woman) involved in Robert Peary's 1909 North Pole expedition. | |||||
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Wild Grapes | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1998 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Guild of Canada | ISBN/ASIN: | 1-55173-539-3 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30741 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Four middle-aged women drink tea in Niagara-on-the-Lake; the tea isn't what they think it is. They dream, fight, and aren't quite themselves. "A wild romp through the dreams and tea parties of four women, the last remaining members of a chapter of the I.O.D.E. . .. Poetic, imagistic and extremely funny." - Theatrum | |||||
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