PETER HANDKE (1942 - )
adaptations/translations by modern playwrights
| Nationality: | Austrian |
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Adaptations - Translations of Plays by Peter Handke
Art Of Asking, The |
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| 1st Published: | Yale University Press | - | ||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Peter Handke | ||||
Synopsis: postscript by Gitta Honegger | ||||
Calling For Help |
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "The Ride Across Lake Comstance and Other Plays" published by Farrar Straus and Giroux | 1976 | ||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Peter Handke | ||||
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Distress Calls |
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| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Peter Handke | ||||
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Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | |||
| Genre: | 90 min | Piece | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 27 actors, 450 parts and no dialogue | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Peter Handke. Non profeesional performance at the Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster by a group of Lancaster University students in 2003 | ||||
Synopsis: Explores the nature of modern urban environments, in which people live cheek by jowl but fail to communicate | ||||
Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, The |
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Voyage to the Sonorous Land" published by Yale University Press | 1996 | ||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Peter Handke | ||||
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Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other, The |
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| 1st Published: | Yale University Press | - | ||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Peter Handke | ||||
Synopsis: postscript by Gitta Honegger | ||||
Kaspar |
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Peter Handke | ||||
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Kaspar |
| 1st Produced: | Almost Free Theatre, London | 1973 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Methuen Drama, London | 1968 | ||
| Genre: | Drama | Translation | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Peter Handke | ||||
Synopsis: true story of the mysterious Kaspar Hauser, an adolescent foundling who appeared to have no language | ||||
Long Way Round, The |
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| 1st Published: | Methuen | 1989 | ||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Peter Handke | ||||
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My Foot My Tutor |
| 1st Produced: | Open Space Theatre, London | 1971 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Peter Handke Plays One" published by Methuen | 1968 | ||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Peter Handke | ||||
Synopsis: starkly simple and yet ultimately frustrating world of an apparently autonomous theatre pantomime | ||||
Offending The Audience |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1966 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 11 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Peter Handke | ||||
Synopsis: At the top of Offending the Audience, a group of actors take the stage and announce that there will be no play. They are not characters. The stage does not represent another place. Time passes as it does in real life. There is no illusion. The audience is asked to abandon every expectation, to be the subject of the actors' gaze the way that they are the subject of ours. So what will happen on stage? Offending the Audience combines caustic humor with deeply meaningful notions about theatre, life and death press release | ||||
Offending The Audience |
| 1st Produced: | 1970 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Methuen, London | 1971 | ||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Peter Handke | ||||
Synopsis: a dissection of our expectations about what ought to happen in the theatre | ||||
Prophecy |
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "The Ride Across Lake Comstance and Other Plays" published by Farrar Straus and Giroux | 1976 | ||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Peter Handke | ||||
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Quodibet |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1974 | ||
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| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 12 characters | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Peter Handke; Written in collaboration with Sandy Brownjohn | ||||
Synopsis: involving a fairly elaborate text but also requiring improvisation, including verbal improvisation. | ||||
Quodibet |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1974 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 12 characters | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Peter Handke; Written in collaboration with Sandy Brownjohn | ||||
Synopsis: involving a fairly elaborate text but also requiring improvisation, including verbal improvisation. | ||||
Quodlibet |
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "The Ride Across Lake Comstance and Other Plays" published by Farrar Straus and Giroux | 1976 | ||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Peter Handke | ||||
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Radio Play |
| 1st Produced: | recorded New York | 1983 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Farrar Straus, New York | - | ||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Peter Handke | ||||
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Reckless are Dying Out, The |
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| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Peter Handke | ||||
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Ride Across Lake Constance, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Methuen, London | 1973 | ||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Peter Handke | ||||
Synopsis: declares war on the whole notion of a semiotic scheme or system of categorisation | ||||
Screams for Help |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Farrar Straus, New York | - | ||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Peter Handke | ||||
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Self-Accusation |
| 1st Produced: | Almost Free Theatre, London | 1973 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in "Kaspar and Other Plays" published by Farrar Straus and Giroux | 1969 | ||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Peter Handke | ||||
Synopsis: a cunning and ironic attack on bureaucratic moral guilt | ||||
They Are Dying Out |
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, London | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Methuen, London | 1975 | ||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Peter Handke; in collaboration with Karl Weber | ||||
Synopsis: portrayal of a capitalist big business man, it is sometimes taken to reveal retrospectively the social impetus in all of Handke;s writing | ||||