GISLI ORN GARDARSSON
| Nationality: | Icelandic |
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Plays by Gisli Orn Gardarsson
Love - The Musical |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: by Gisli Orn Gardarsson, adapted by David far from a literal translation by Hjortur Gretarsson | ||||
Synopsis: a geriatric romcom told through snatches of popular song. Set in a nursing home, it relates the story of Margaret, who is left there for the weekend by her son and falls head over heels for another inmate called Neville. Robert Shore, Metro London | ||||
Metamorphosis |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 2006 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: from book by Franz Kafka adapted by David Farr and Gisli Orn Gardarsson | ||||
Synopsis: A six-legged nightmare by Franz Kafka. The ordinary, unremarkable life of the Samsas is turned upside down when their son Gregor emerges one morning transformed into a monstrous insect. As revulsion turns into resentment, strange things start to happen to the Samsa family | ||||
Woyzeck |
| 1st Produced: | Barbican, London | 2005 | ||
| Company: | Vesturport Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Georg Buchner. Adapted by Gisli Orn Gardarsson, translated by Ruth Little, Gisli Orn Gardarsson and Jon Atli Jonasson | ||||
Synopsis: features aerialism, grotesque visuals, ravishing underwater movement and a thrilling, bitterly witty score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. Tells the story, based on real events, of a poor soldier, ground down by social injustice. Driven mad by the discov | ||||