JANUSZ GLOWACKI (1938 - )
adaptations/translations by modern playwrights
| Nationality: | American/Polish |
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Adaptations - Translations of Plays by Janusz Glowacki
Adultery Punished |
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Dialog number Six" | 1977 | ||
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Antigone In New York |
| 1st Produced: | Washington at the Arena Stage | 1993 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, NY | - | ||
| Genre: | Translation Tragicomedy | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Janusz Glowacki. Named one of 10 Best Plays of the Year by Time Magazine. Screenplay translated by Eva Nagorski | ||||
Synopsis: Two homeless men, a Pole, a Russian, and a Puerto Rican homeless woman try to make life continue in Tompkins Square Park by getting the body of a dead man from Potter's Field so that he can have his own grave. A comedy about unhappiness | ||||
Chop |
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Dialog number Four" | 1974 | ||
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Cinders |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1981 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Unpublished | - | ||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Janusz Glowacki | ||||
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Cinders |
| 1st Produced: | 1981 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York | 1985 | ||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 8 |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Janusz Glowacki; music by Richard Peaslee. USA premiere at the Public Theater with director John Madden, starring Christopher Walken | ||||
Synopsis: A penetrating allegory about the Polish totalitarian police state. It takes place in a girls' reform school, where the inmates are forced to act out their version of Cinderella for a film by an up-and-coming director | ||||
Fortinbras Gets Drunk |
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| Genre: | tragicomedy | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Janusz Glowacki. Translated by Jadwiga Kosicka, Joan Torres, and Konrad Brodzinski | ||||
Synopsis: A macabre retelling of Hamlet from the Norwegian point of view | ||||
Fortinbras Gets Drunk |
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| Genre: | tragicomedy | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Janusz Glowacki. Translated by Jadwiga Kosicka, Joan Torres, and Konrad Brodzinski | ||||
Synopsis: A macabre retelling of Hamlet from the Norwegian point of view | ||||
Fortinbras Gets Drunk |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | tragicomedy | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Janusz Glowacki. Translated by Jadwiga Kosicka, Joan Torres, and Konrad Brodzinski | ||||
Synopsis: A macabre retelling of Hamlet from the Norwegian point of view | ||||
Fourth Sister, The |
| 1st Produced: | Teatr Polski in Wroclaw, Poland | 2000 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 2003 | ||
| Genre: | Translation Tragicomedy | - | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | Some male characters can be doubled | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Janusz Glowacki. Produced in USA: Vineyard Theatre in New York, 2002 | ||||
Synopsis: Three sisters in modern day Moscow hunger for love and happiness amidst the uncertainty of a new world order. When an American filmmaker comes to town, they see a chance to change their fates, and someday, just maybe get to Hollywood - or is it Brighton Beach? ? An unflinchingly funny and daring epic, with a sly wink towards Chekhov. | ||||
Give Us This Day |
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| 1st Published: | St. Martins Press | 1984 | ||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Janusz Glowacki | ||||
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Home Section |
| 1st Produced: | McCarter Theatre, Princeton | 1995 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "The Best American Short Plays 95 - 96" published by Applause | - | ||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Janusz Glowacki | ||||
Synopsis: Three East Europeans are decorating a Fifth Avenue apartment. The find someone hanging from the ceiling in one of the rooms. They wont get paid unless they do all the rooms so what are they to do about the corpse? | ||||
Hunting Cockroaches |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | A Polish immigrant couple, a famous writer and an actress, come to America because they have lost everything except for their accents. They have a hard time in their strange, new country. | ||
| Genre: | Translation Tracicomedy | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Janusz Glowacki. Director Arthur Penn, starring Diane Wiest and Ron Silver. Named one of 10 Best Plays of the Year by Time Magazine | ||||
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Journey to Gdansk |
| 1st Produced: | West Side Mainstage Theater, New York | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | 1982 | ||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Retro |
| 1st Produced: | West Side Mainstage Theater, New York | - | ||
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Soccer |
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| 1st Published: | Contained in "Dialog number Ten" | 1976 | ||
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Tea With Milk |
| 1st Produced: | West Side Mainstage Theater, New York | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Walk Before Dawn, A |
| 1st Produced: | West Side Mainstage Theater, New York | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Janusz Glowacki | ||||
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