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RANJIT BOLT (1959 - ) |
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Nationality: English Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Curtis Brown Group Ltd |
Born in Manchester in 1959, Ranjit Bolt was educated at Perse School and at Balliol College, Oxford. He worked as an investment analyst and advisor for eight years, before concentrating on theatre translation from the end of 1990.
Plays by Ranjit Bolt
Art Of Seduction, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Duke of Cambridge, London | 1997 | ||||
Company: | US representative Peregrine Whittlesey Agency | |||||
| 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 | #3791 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Marivaux (La Double Inconstance) | |||||
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Believe It or Not | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59576 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cyrano de Bergerac | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3793 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Edmond Rostand. Adapted By Jatinder Verma and Ranjit Bolt | |||||
Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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George Dandin | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59578 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | cast of 6 | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Moliere | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Grouch, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82230 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Moliere, from Le Misanthrope | |||||
Synopsis: | 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?" | |||||
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Hercules | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59577 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Seneca | |||||
Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Idiot, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59582 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | cast of 10 | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Moliere | |||||
Synopsis: | L'Etourdi (1653), the first, the fastest, and perhaps the funniest of Moliere's verse comedies, in a new and highly entertaining translation. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Illusion, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
Company: | Old Vic Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59584 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | cast of 15 | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Pierre Corneille | |||||
Synopsis: | a comic play within a play within a play. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Le Cid | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3792 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | cast of 11 | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Pierre Corneille | |||||
Synopsis: | Le Cid, Corneille's most famous play, signalled a resurgence in French drama during the seventeenth century. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Liar, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
Company: | Old Vic Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3794 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | cast of 14 | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Pierre Corneille | |||||
Synopsis: | a hilarious comedy | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lysistrata | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
Company: | Peter Hall Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3795 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Aristophanes | |||||
Synopsis: | 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 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Marriage Of Figaro, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Players, London | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Tara Arts 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 | #58250 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Beaumarchais | |||||
Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Merry Wives - The Musical | ||
| 1st Produced: | Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, EUR >>> | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59574 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | 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. | |||||
Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mirandolina | ||
| 1st Produced: | Manchester, Royal Exchange | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55883 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Carlo Goldoni | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Misanthrope, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Picaddily Theatre, London | - - - | ||||
Company: | Peter hall Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59580 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Moliere | |||||
Synopsis: | 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 Celimene. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Miser, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59581 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | cast of 10 | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Moliere | |||||
Synopsis: | L'Avare (1666) is Moliere'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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Oedipus at Colon | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
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| 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 | #3796 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Oedipus the King | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
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| 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 | #3797 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Real Don Juan, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 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 | #3798 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | cast of 17 | |||||
Notes: | from Zorrilla | |||||
Synopsis: | A softened, romanticised version of the infamous hero whose story ends, uniquely, in repentance and salvation. Unashamedly and ingeniously improved upon by Ranjit Bolt. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Colchester, Mercury | 2005 | ||||
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 | #51488 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | |||||
Synopsis: | Corrupt local politician Dogsborough is caught up in shady dealings involving a loan to a shipping company | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Scapin | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59579 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | cast of 10 | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Moliere | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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School For Wives, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1997 | ||||
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 | #69807 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Moliere | |||||
Synopsis: | ultra witty comedy of manners | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sisterhood, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59583 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | cast of 10 | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Moliere | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tartuffe | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3799 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Moliere | |||||
Synopsis: | 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 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Venetian Twins, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3800 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Carlo Goldoni | |||||
Synopsis: | 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 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Waltz Of The Toreadors, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
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 | #69808 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Anouilh | |||||
Synopsis: | comedy of romantic regrets and marital compromise | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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