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FRANCOIS ARCHAMBAULT (1968 - ) |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Agence ArtistiqueDuchesne |
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Francois Archambault
15 Seconds | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0889224278 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43749 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Francois Archambault | |||||
| Brimming with a dark and brittle humour, 15 Seconds is a play about a young female advertising copy writer, her pro-sports-fan ex-boyfriend, a Gen-X welfare-bum loser and his brother handicapped by cerebral palsy. These four characters are constantly making choices about reality and illusion; imagination and fantasy; the hale and the handicapped; about the way things are and the way they might be. The plays characters each exist in their own worlds utterly without context: objectified to the point where their fantasies about who they might have been are all that define them to themselves, and who they superficially appear to be is all that defines them to each other. They are utterly unable to bridge this gulf and imagine each other; though they all remember that they should try to do so, they seem to have forgotten from where this moral imperative emanates. It is from this vestigial organ of empathy that much of the humour of the play is derived. While the inability of such profoundly superficial and alienated characters to understand each other is the stock-in-trade of stand-up comedians and variety shows, 15 Seconds does something completely unexpected with this materialthe audience is deprived of its traditional cathartic closure, and does not get to feel smug and morally superior after visiting with these characters. It is the characters themselves who, in their irredeemable banality, pronounce their own verdicts of condemnation. In the end, chance reigns supreme in a world where fifteen seconds of inattention or error can, and in fact does, irrevocably determine the shape of an entire lifetime. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fast Lane, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Arts Centre Atelier, Ottawa | 1995 | ||||
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 | #77888 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Francois Archambault | |||||
Synopsis: | Six twenty somethings overindulging in drugs, booze and sex | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fifteen Seconds | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | Traverse Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Traverse Publishing, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #38260 | |||
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Genre: | Scots English Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Francois Archambault | |||||
Synopsis: | Claude and Mathieu are brothers. Claude is successful in love, Mathieus never kissed a girl. Mathieu is successful professionally and used to getting what he wants. Claude is unemployed and at the end of his tether as he slips from one McJob to the next. Mathieu has cerebral palsy. Claude is turning 30 and having his mid-life crisis early. Then Claude meets Charlotte. So does Mathieu. When she moves into the brothers flat, everything becomes complicated. Very complicated. Even more complicated when Mathieu offers Claude a deal that no brother should. A deal no brother should accept | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Leisure Society, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, B.C., 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0889225312 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43804 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Francois Archambault | |||||
| At a dinner party a thirty something couple who seem to have everything come to a crisis point | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Walt Disney Project, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Traverse Breakfast Plays, Edinburgh Festival Fringe | Aug 2015 | ||||
Company: | Traverse Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #181540 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Francois Archambault | |||||
Synopsis: | Three activists set about finding Walt Disney and bringing him back to the future. A dark comedy about idealism, what the world needs, and who can deliver it. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Winners, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1997 | ||||
Company: | Ruby Slippers (Vancouver) | |||||
| 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 | #77889 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Francois Archambault | |||||
Synopsis: | Philippe is searching for a job, a girlfriend and the meaning of life. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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You Will Remember Me | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talonbooks | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781772010190 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #188028 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Francois Archambault | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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