FRANZ XAVER KROETZ (1946 - )
adaptations/translations by modern playwrights
| Nationality: | German |
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Adaptations - Translations of Plays by Franz Xaver Kroetz
Away Day |
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Dead Soil |
| 1st Produced: | Leicester Haymarket | - | ||
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Desire |
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| 1st Published: | Goethe-Institut | - | ||
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Farmyard |
| 1st Produced: | New Haven, Connecticut | 1975 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Urizen, New York | 1976 | ||
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Farmyard |
| 1st Produced: | 1981 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Urizen Books | - | ||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Help Wanted |
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Home Work |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||
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| 1st Published: | in "Gambit 39-40", Calder, London | 1982 | ||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: about abortion | ||||
Man A Dictionary, A |
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| 1st Published: | Urizen Books | - | ||
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Men's Business |
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| 1st Published: | Urizen Books | - | ||
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Mensch Meyer |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
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Michi's Blood |
| 1st Produced: | Taller Latinamericano/ Creation Productions, NY | 1982 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Urizen Books | - | ||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Nest, The |
| 1st Produced: | Studio Theatre, Sheffield | 1980 | ||
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| Genre: | Play | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Nest, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||
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Nest, The |
| 1st Produced: | Arcola, London | 2003 | ||
| Company: | Living Pictures Productions | |||
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| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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New Horizons |
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Nuts |
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Request Programme |
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||
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Through The Leaves |
| 1st Produced: | Southwark Playhouse, London | 2003 | ||
| Company: | Stanhope Productions | |||
| 1st Published: | Methuen Drama Playscript | 2003 | ||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Tom Fool |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
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| Genre: | Play | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Franz Xaver Kroetz, translated by Estella Schmid and Anthony Vivis | ||||
Synopsis: Franz Xaver Kroetz's superb 1978 play Tom Fool takes us back to the moment when women finally began to change the rules of the game. Liam Brennan's Otto Meier is a superb portrait of what still passed, in 1970s Germany, for an ordinary working man. Obsessed with the minute hierarchies of his factory workplace, used to taking his wife Martha completely for granted and inclined to see his stroppy 16-year-old son as a rival rather than a child in his care, Otto finds his world shattered when a terminal row with his son drives Martha to pack her bag and leave, leaving him alone to deal with the insecurities and alienations of his working life. In 20-odd powerful scenes, each with a title like a sitcom episode, Kroetz charts this story of breakdown with a wonderful, rich yet cold-eyed hyperrealism that is his hallmark, and without a hint of polemic, either way. Joyce McMillan, Scotsman | ||||
Tom Fool |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | Play | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Franz Xaver Kroetz, translated by Estella Schmid and Anthony Vivis | ||||
Synopsis: Franz Xaver Kroetz's superb 1978 play Tom Fool takes us back to the moment when women finally began to change the rules of the game. Liam Brennan's Otto Meier is a superb portrait of what still passed, in 1970s Germany, for an ordinary working man. Obsessed with the minute hierarchies of his factory workplace, used to taking his wife Martha completely for granted and inclined to see his stroppy 16-year-old son as a rival rather than a child in his care, Otto finds his world shattered when a terminal row with his son drives Martha to pack her bag and leave, leaving him alone to deal with the insecurities and alienations of his working life. In 20-odd powerful scenes, each with a title like a sitcom episode, Kroetz charts this story of breakdown with a wonderful, rich yet cold-eyed hyperrealism that is his hallmark, and without a hint of polemic, either way. Joyce McMillan, Scotsman | ||||
Urge |
| 1st Produced: | Spring's Performance Loft, NY | 2007 | ||
| Company: | Spring Theatreworks | |||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Urge is centered on Otto and Hilde, married gardeners who make a living selling flower arrangements for funerals. Hildes brother Fritz has just been released from prison and is staying with Otto and Hilde until he can get back on his feet. Incarcerated for chronic indecent exposure, Fritz must take drive-reducing medication to prevent him from acting on his desires in public again. So meeting Hildes sexually desperate assistant, Mitzi, proves quite a challenge! All the while, Otto is convinced Fritz has more problems than just his uncontrollable libido, but while trying to figure that out he manages to discover the extent of his own unruly urges instead - press release | ||||