JANUSZ GLOWACKI   (1938 - )
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Janusz Glowacki
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Adaptations - Translations of Plays by Janusz Glowacki

JANUSZ GLOWACKI
Adultery Punished
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Dialog number Six", 1977
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JOAN TORRES
Antigone In New York
1st Produced:
Washington at the Arena Stage
1993
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, NY,
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Genre:
Translation Tragicomedy
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Male
2
Female
1
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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
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JANUSZ GLOWACKI
Chop
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Contained in: "Dialog number Four", 1974
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HANIF KUREISHI
Cinders
1st Produced:
London
1981
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1st Published:
Unpublished,
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Adapatation/translation
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Original Playwright - Janusz Glowacki
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CHRISTINA PAUL
Cinders
1st Produced:
1981
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York, 1985
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Genre:
Translation
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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
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KONRAD BRODZINSKI
Fortinbras Gets Drunk
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Genre:
tragicomedy
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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
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JADWIGA KOSICKA
Fortinbras Gets Drunk
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Genre:
tragicomedy
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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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
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JOAN TORRES
Fortinbras Gets Drunk
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Genre:
tragicomedy
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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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
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EVA NAGORSKI
Fourth Sister, The
1st Produced:
Teatr Polski in Wroclaw, Poland
2000
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 2003
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Genre:
Translation Tragicomedy
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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.
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KONRAD BRODZINSKI
Give Us This Day
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1st Published:
St. Martins Press, 1984
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Original Playwright - Janusz Glowacki
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ZUZA GLOWACKA
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,
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Translation
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3
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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?
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JADWIGA KOSICKA
Hunting Cockroaches
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,
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Genre:
Translation Tracicomedy
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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
Synopsis:
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.
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H FILIPOWICZ
Journey to Gdansk
1st Produced:
West Side Mainstage Theater, New York
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Original Playwright - Janusz Glowacki
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H FILIPOWICZ
Retro
1st Produced:
West Side Mainstage Theater, New York
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JANUSZ GLOWACKI
Soccer
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1st Published:
Contained in "Dialog number Ten", 1976
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H FILIPOWICZ
Tea With Milk
1st Produced:
West Side Mainstage Theater, New York
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Genre:
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Translation
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Janusz Glowacki
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H FILIPOWICZ
Walk Before Dawn, A
1st Produced:
West Side Mainstage Theater, New York
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1st Published:
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ISBN
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Janusz Glowacki
Synopsis:
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