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Duke of Cambridge, London

1997

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Translation

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Original Playwright - Marivaux (La Double Inconstance)

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Oberon Books, London >>>,

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In Scribe's 'Le Puff'(1848) - translated here as 'Believe it or not' - an honourable cavalry officer returns to Paris after five years abroad to find his countrymen happily addicted to exaggeration, dissimulation and downright lying. Can he find happiness and keep his integrity in a world where nothing is what it seems? The enduring qualities of Scribe's work - the complex yet elegant plotting, the quirky characters, the sharply-written dialogue - are all very much in evidence, as with bouyant cynicism he skewers the worlds of letters, finance and politics.
Oberon

Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, London >>>

1995

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Oberon Books, London >>>, 2007

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Original Playwright - Edmond Rostand. Adapted By Jatinder Verma and Ranjit Bolt

This new version of Edmond Rostand’s classic play Cyrano de Bergerac is set in thirties India, where Cyrano pursues his love for Roxanne in an Asian setting.

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Original Playwright - Moliere

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Leeds: West Yorkshire Playhouse, England, EUR >>>

2008

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Oberon Books, London >>>, 2008

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Original Playwright - Moliere, from Le Misanthrope

If any writer on the contemporary British drama scene deserves to be called "irrepressible", it is Ranjit Bolt, a translator and adapter, most often of Comeille or Moliere: The Grouch is an update of the latter's Le Misanthrope. He thrives on contradictions: his translations are usually in verse forms which draw attention to their artifice (here, tetrameter couplets), yet his characters sound natural and modem-day most of the time. The eponymous malcontent Alceste here becomes Alan, a literary critic who delights in plain-speaking as a corrective to the mindless flatteries routinely peddled in his and his beloved Celia's set. He and his friend Philip remark about an ingratiating poetaster: "God, how the fellow does persist!"/"He wants you on his Facebook list." When Celia is revealed to be the biggest hypocrite of the lot, playing all her friends and suitors off against one another, the unmasking is done by reading out incriminating e-mails (which are rendered in prose). In Bolt's work, touches like this either do not feel laboured at all, or else their contrivance becomes part of the fun, as when Alan, refusing to pass judgment on another's poem, overemphasises the verse he himself speaks: "What right to judge it have I got?/Who am I - T.S. El-i-ot?"
- Ian Shuttleworth, Financial Times

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Original Playwright - Seneca

A new translation specially commissioned by Absolute Classics. Seneca’s poetic account of this classic story reveals the passion for rhetoric that was to have such a strong influence on Elizabethan drama and particularly on Marlowe and the young Shakespeare.

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Original Playwright - Moliere

L’Etourdi (1653), the first, the fastest, and perhaps the funniest of Molière’s verse comedies, in a new and highly entertaining translation.

Old Vic Theatre, London >>>

1990

Old Vic Company

Oberon Books, London >>>, 1990

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Original Playwright - Pierre Corneille

a comic play within a play within a play.

Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, London >>>

1994

National Theatre, London >>>

in "Three Masterpeieces", Oberon Books, London >>>,

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Original Playwright - Pierre Corneille

Le Cid, Corneille’s most famous play, signalled a resurgence in French drama during the seventeenth century.

Old Vic Theatre, London >>>

1990

Old Vic Company

Oberon Books, London >>>, 1990

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Original Playwright - Pierre Corneille

a hilarious comedy

Old Vic Theatre, London >>>

1993

Peter Hall Company

Oberon Books, London >>>, 2005

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Original Playwright - Aristophanes

Lysistrata, frustrated at the ongoing violence of the civil war, convinces the women of Athens to deny their husbands sex, until a treaty for peace has been signed. Aristophanes is astonishingly ahead of his time in this, probably his greatest and most enduring comedy

New Players, London

2006

Tara Arts Theatre Company

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Original Playwright - Beaumarchais

To help us forget the Mozart opera and see the play and its shrewd social critique afresh, Tara Arts has shifted the action from 18th-century France to 18th-century India. Here the Count becomes the Nawab; Suzanne becomes Rukhsana. The idea is that a similar sense of social upheaval prevailed in India. And while French drama had the tradition of commedia dell'arte, Indian drama had its own popular comic style in Bhavai.
Sarah Hemming, Financial Times

Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, EUR >>>

2006

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Oberon Books, London >>>, 2006

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Original Playwright - Shakespeare. Adapted by Gregory Doran, music by Paul Engishby, lyrics by Ranjit Bolt. Merry Wives - The Musical was first performed at the RSC in December 2006 as part of the Complete Works festival. The production featured Simon Callow as Falstaff and Judi Dench as Mistress Quickly, with music by Paul Englishby.

When Sir John Falstaff sets out to woo a rich mistress to solve his financial worries, he soon discovers that the Wives of Windsor are more than a match for him. Love, song, laughter and merriment combine in a new musical version of Shakespeare's popular comedy.

Manchester, Royal Exchange

2006

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Original Playwright - Carlo Goldoni

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Picaddily Theatre, London

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Peter hall Company

Oberon Books, London >>>,

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Original Playwright - Moliere

The Misanthrope was first performed in Paris in 1666. Exasperated by the corruption of society, the cynical but noble Alceste wrestles with his love for the worldly and coquettish Célimène.

Chichester: Festival Theatre, England, EUR >>>

1995

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Oberon Books, London >>>,

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Original Playwright - Moliere

L’Avare (1666) is Molière’s great satire on materialism, a funny yet sophisticated story of cunning, guile and double-dealing, not only by the Miser himself, but also by the Miser’s family and servants.

Olivier Theatre, National Theatre, London >>>

1996

National Theatre, London >>>

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Olivier Theatre, National Theatre, London >>>

1996

National Theatre, London >>>

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Riverside 2, London >>>

1990

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from Zorrilla

A softened, romanticised version of the infamous hero whose story ends, uniquely, in repentance and salvation. Unashamedly and ingeniously improved upon by Ranjit Bolt.

Colchester, Mercury

2005

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doubling

Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Corrupt local politician Dogsborough is caught up in shady dealings involving a loan to a shipping company

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Original Playwright - Moliere

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Original Playwright - Moliere

ultra witty comedy of manners

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Original Playwright - Moliere

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Lytlelton Theatre, National Theatre, London >>>

2002

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Oberon Books, London >>>, 2002

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Original Playwright - Moliere

The religious fraud Tartuffe has wormed his way into the affections and household of rich merchant, Orgon, with pantomime piety and counterfeit zeal. So comprehensively has he hoodwinked Orgon that he looks set to succeed in driving away the son, marrying the daughter, seducing the wife and imprisoning Orgon. Moliere's satirical farce, which aims its shafts at religious and sexual hypocrisy is transported from 17C France to contemporary Turkey and Islam

Swan Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, England, EUR >>>

1993

Royal Shakespeare Company >>>

Oberon Books, London >>>, 1993

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Original Playwright - Carlo Goldoni

revolves around an escalating case of mistaken identiy. A pair of identical twins, Zanatto and Tonino - the former a rich but dim-witted merchant, raised apart from his sibling, the latter a high principled gentleman - wind up in Verona at the same time

Chichester: Minerva Theatre, England, EUR >>>

2007

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Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh

comedy of romantic regrets and marital compromise