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HENRI MEILHAC |
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Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Henri Meilhac |
Brazilian, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #31519 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy | |||||
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My Famous Cousin | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #89437 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | 1 or 2 non-speaking servants | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Henri Meilhac. Translated from Ma Cousine by Henry Meilhac (librettist of Bizet's Carmen among other works) has been adapted from its original 1890 setting to 1921. Meilhac created strong, appealing female characters - in this play, four of them. With French comic star Rejane in the title role, the play had an initial Paris run of 300 performances. Forgotten for 100 years, this "continuous peel of laughter; a delicious promenade in the land of fantasy" deserves this 21st century translation. | |||||
Synopsis: | The play opens in the apartment of Riquette, toast of the 1921 Paris stage. A succession of visitors drop by and introduce the foundation of the plot - news of an affair between Raoul d'Arnay-la-Hutte and Victorine Champcourtier. He's a well-to-do young socialite; she's the much younger wife of an even wealthier club-man who has decided to try his luck at play-writing to impress "the fellows". Raoul's wife Clotilde, Riquette's long-lost cousin, comes to plead for her assistance in winning back her husband. Riquette accepts the challenge: her strategy is to charm Raoul away from Victorine, then find a way to deliver him back to Clotilde. A rehearsal of Champcourtier's play, The Hortense Tango, provides the setting for phase one of her strategy, culminating in a comic dance of lustful glances and jealous reproaches. By one of life's coincidences, Raoul's love-nest for his planned rendezvous with Victorine turns out to be an apartment rented from Riquette's manicurist. Riquette shows up, as do the other characters, and she succeeds in wrapping up her master (or is that mistress?) strategy. | |||||
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