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ODON VON HORVATH (1901 - 1938) |
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Nationality: Austro-Hungarian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Playwright Odon von Horvath (1901-1938) was born in Fiume, now Rijeka, near Trieste on 9 December 1901. His father being a diplomat, the family moved from country to country."I am a melange of Old Austria; Hungarian, Croat, Czech, German; alas, nothing Semitic". His plays include Tales From the Vienna Woods, Judgment Day, Faith Hope and Charity and Italian Night. Choosing to stay in Germany and document the rise of National Socialism, his work was violently repressed by the Third Reich, and many of his masterpieces including Don Juan Comes Back From The War were never performed until after his death. In later years, he turned to writing novels, and his popular works A Child of Our Time and Youth Without God are considered modern classics. He was killed on 1 June 1938 at the age of 38, in a freak accident on the Champs-Elysees, when a branch of the chestnut tree under which he was sheltering from a thunderstorm fell on his head. He also appears as the lead character in Christopher Hampton's play Tales from Hollywood.
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Odon Von Horvath
Belle Vue, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23500 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
Synopsis: | set in a seedy hotel in Central Europe i9n the 1920's where the only guest in a drunken ageing nymphomaniac | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Divorcement of Figaro, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #55240 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 16 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
Synopsis: | Horvath takes Beaumarchais' and Mozart's characters from The Marriage of Figaro and throws them down in a post Treaty of Versailles Middle Europe in which boundaries shift constantly and values --personal and political--are in melt down. Only Susanna retains the sense of individual purpose which inspired the original play and she comes to understand that her instinct for self-preservation then was the beginning of something altogether more radical---something that even now---is just beginning to find its real _expression. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Don Juan Comes Back From The War | ||
| 1st Produced: | National, London | 1978 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15357 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 9 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
Synopsis: | Don Juan, the notorious philanderer, is imagined as the last man standing - a survivor of the trenches now living in a world composed of women | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Don Juans Comes Back From The War | ||
| 1st Produced: | Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED >>> | 28 Feb 2012 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849432542 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #134900 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath. First performed in 1952 as Don Juan Returns at The Theatre of Courage in Vienna | |||||
| Don Juan's back from the War and he's got some catching up to do. Berlin is crumbling, but after years of abstinence, the Don is ready for more of the debauchery that once made his name. Amidst political and economic upheaval, Don Juan finds himself increasingly at odds with the man he used to be. Is this notorious lothario about to experience a sudden change of heart? Odon von Horvath's startling tale of displacement and isolation in the aftermath of the Great War is presented in a bold new adaptation by award-winning playwright Duncan Macmillan. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Faith, Hope and Charity | ||
| 1st Produced: | Upper Lance Hall, Charleston, SC | 39765 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #123804 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Faith, Hope and Charity | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Four Plays by Von Horvath" published by PAJ, New York, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #76704 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Faith, Hope and Charity | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Four Plays by Von Horvath" published by PAJ, New York, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #76705 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Faith, Hope And Charity | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lyric Theatre, London | 1989 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15360 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
Synopsis: | young girl's struggle to survive in the socially and economically oppressed Germany of the thirties | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Figaro Gets a Divorce | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Four Plays by Von Horvath" published by PAJ, New York, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #76707 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Figaro Gets Divorced | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #17473 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
Synopsis: | concerns the rise and fall of an aristocratic couple and their two servants on the run from a revolution | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hope Spring Hotel | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #76726 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Italian Night | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840021527 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25986 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Judgement Day | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #67878 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath. With Stephen Boxer playing the Station Master. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Judgement Day | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Four Plays by Von Horvath" published by PAJ, New York, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #76749 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Judgement Day | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Four Plays by Von Horvath" published by PAJ, New York, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #76750 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Judgement Day | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Sep 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571238910 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #90739 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | child and extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
| Adapted by Christopher Hampton from Austrian playwright Ödön von Horvath's play, Judgment Day was written and is set in 1937, in a small village in Austria. Diligent railway station master Thomas Hudetz is a well respected member of his local community. That is until the charms of flirtatious young Anna distract him momentarily from the operation of the signals. There are no survivors from Express Train 405. The small town seeks a culprit but it seems only Anna knows the truth about the conscientious station master. Written during the rise of Fascism, the question of moral responsibility lies at the heart of Judgment Day. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Judgement Day | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #24068 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
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Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Kashmir and Karoline | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Four Plays by Von Horvath" published by PAJ, New York, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #76755 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Kasimir and Karoline | ||
| 1st Produced: | Classic Stage Company, New York | 38443 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #123805 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
Synopsis: | Kasimir looses his job and this brings great shame to him. He begins to take it out on Karoline - he is convinced that she will leave him. But Karoline believes in standing by her man | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Kasimir and Karoline | ||
| 1st Produced: | RADA Vanburgh Theatre, London | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #55239 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
Synopsis: | A phantasmagorical fairground setting echoes the sense of unbelonging and displacement facing Horvath's disaffected youth as the Weimar Republic careers from uncertainty to chaos and the inevitability of national socialism casts ever longer shadows over Munich's Oktoberfest . Seven young people---all children of the First World War---strive to have a good time and to make some sort of sense of their existence in a world where dreams have become nightmares and parents their predators rather than their protectors. The "good time" is embraced as the only talisman against despair. After all " it's getting better all the time". | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Oktoberfest | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lyric Studio, London | 1993 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #64516 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rund Um Den Kongress | ||
| 1st Produced: | reading at the RNT | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #125350 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sexual Congress, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #46599 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | 20 | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
Synopsis: | in Plays 1, Oberon, London | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sladek | ||
| 1st Produced: | reading at the RNT | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #46598 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | cast of 6 | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
Synopsis: | in Plays 1, Oberon, London | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tales From The Vienna Woods | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1977 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1977 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15375 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 12 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tales from the Vienna Woods | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780571223046 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #46397 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath. from a literal translation by Laura Gribble. | |||||
Synopsis: | Set against the sentimental backdrop of the Vienna Woods and to the distant tune of a Strauss waltz, a community steeped in bigotry concerns itself with love affairs, petty squabbles, jealousies and personal tragedy. Meanwhile society at large, haunted by inflation, goes reeling towards Fascism. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tales From the Vienna Woods | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Early 20th Century German Plays" published by Continuum, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #76869 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Odon von Horvath | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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