EUGENE LABICHE (1815 - 1888)
adaptations/translations by modern playwrights
| Nationality: | French |
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Adaptations - Translations of Plays by Eugene Labiche
Coaldust Affair, The |
| 1st Produced: | Chelsea Centre, London | 1993 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche | ||||
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Friends Of A Feather |
| 1st Produced: | Shaw Festival, Mainstage | 1984 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press , Toronto | 1984 | ||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 2 extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche and A Delacour (Celimare). Performance Rights : The Core Group Talent Agency | ||||
Synopsis: Newlywed Celimare dodges former flames, jealous husbands and suspicious in-laws in this hilarious adaptation of the classic French farce | ||||
Italian Straw Hat, An |
| 1st Produced: | Shaftesbury, London | 1986 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Unpublished | - | ||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche | ||||
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Italian Straw Hat, An |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche. Adapted by Lynn and Theodore Hoffman | ||||
Synopsis: the hero is about to get married when two lovers turn up and announce his horse as eaten her hat and they will not leave the bridal chamber until he produces another one | ||||
Italian Straw Hat, An |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche. Adapted by Lynn and Theodore Hoffman | ||||
Synopsis: the hero is about to get married when two lovers turn up and announce his horse as eaten her hat and they will not leave the bridal chamber until he produces another one | ||||
Just Good Friends |
| 1st Produced: | East Grinstead | 1967 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche | ||||
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Men of Letters |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Playwrights Network | 1975 | ||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche, "La Grammaire" (1867) | ||||
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New Girl In Town |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1957 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | Musical Adaptation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Eugene O'Neill. music and lyrics by Bob Merrill, adaptation of the play Anna Christie | ||||
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Pots Of Money |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "A Dozen French Farces" French, New York | - | ||
| Genre: | Translated | - | Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche and A Delacour; aka The Piggy Bank | ||||
Synopsis: about a group of rural card cheats who pool their money to go on a spending spree in Paris, they go afoul of the law when they run up bills they cannot pay | ||||
Threesome, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
| Company: | 606 Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London | 2000 | ||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Eugene Labiche (Le Plus Hereux Des Trois) | ||||
Synopsis: Paris, 1870. Adultery ought to be a serious business& But its hard to keep your dignity when the cleaning lady has a fireman in your kitchen and she suspects that something is up. Not to mention the fact that your lover is not only stuck halfway up a drainpipe but is also your husbands very best friend. And as for the blackmailing taxi driver - he knows everything! The Threesome is a feast of finely tuned extra-marital mayhem from the master of French farce. | ||||