JEAN RACINE (1639 - 1699)
adaptations/translations by modern playwrights
| Nationality: | French |
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Adaptations - Translations of Plays by Jean Racine
1953 |
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1990 | ||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine (Andromaque) | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Andromache |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Racine Complete Plays volume One" published by Varsity Books | 2003 | ||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Andromache |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Andromache, Britanicus and Berenice" published by Penguin Books | 1968 | ||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Andromache |
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||
| Company: | Cheek By Jowl | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | Translated | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Andromache |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
| Company: | Schaubuhne Am Lehniner Platz, Berlin | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | Play | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: The five characters line up on a slab of granite, immobile, as in a carved frieze thus depicting the intractable nature of Greek tragedy. They are frozen by pain and by old resentments. | ||||
Andromache |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
| Company: | Schaubuhne Am Lehniner Platz, Berlin | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | Play | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: The five characters line up on a slab of granite, immobile, as in a carved frieze thus depicting the intractable nature of Greek tragedy. They are frozen by pain and by old resentments. | ||||
Andromache |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | - | ||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Andromaque |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1990 | ||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Andromaque |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1989 | ||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Athaliah |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Iphigenia, Phaedra and Athaliah" published by Penguin Books | 1975 | ||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Bajazet |
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto | 1979 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Unpublished | - | ||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Berenice |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Absolute Classics, Bath | 1990 | ||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Berenice |
| 1st Produced: | 1982 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | Translated | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Britannicas |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Racine Complete Plays volume One" published by Varsity Books | 2003 | ||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Britannicus |
| 1st Produced: | 1981 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | Translated | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
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Britannicus |
| 1st Produced: | Albery, London | 1998 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | Translated | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: Revival | ||||
Iphigenia |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Racine Complete Plays volume One" published by Varsity Books | 2003 | ||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Iphigenia |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Iphigenia, Phaedra and Athaliah" published by Penguin Books | 1975 | ||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Phaedra |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Iphigenia, Phaedra and Athaliah" published by Penguin Books | 1975 | ||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Phaedra |
| 1st Produced: | Pentameters, London | 1994 | ||
| Company: | Traffic Of The Stage | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | Translated | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Phaedra |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Phaedra |
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Amber Lane Press, Oxford | 1985 | ||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Phaedra |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
| Company: | The Gate Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | The Gallery Press, Republic of Ireland | 1996 | ||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine. The action takes place at the summer palace at Troezene | ||||
Synopsis: Based on Euripides' 'Hippolytus' and the 'Phaedra of Seneca', Phaedra's main theme is the tragic misunderstanding between men and women. A wife falls violently in love with her unresponsive stepson while her husband and father fail to understand | ||||
Phaedra |
| 1st Produced: | Donmar Warehouse, London | 2006 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | Play | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: A story about universal raw human emotions - hatred, greed, ambition and how you can never choose who you fall in love with Ruth Leon, Daily Express | ||||
Phaedra |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Carcarnet | 2000 | ||
| Genre: | Translated | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Phaedra |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books Drama Classic | 2001 | ||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Phaedra |
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | Translation | Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Phaedra |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | - | ||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Phaedra Britannica |
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Rex Collings, London | 1975 | ||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: ingenious transposition to 19th century Raj India, with the ancient and vengeful Gods of India taking over | ||||
Phedre |
| 1st Produced: | Albery, London | 1998 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1998 | ||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: replaces Racine's alexandrines with lean English verse that serves to convey the passions of his protagonists | ||||
Phedre |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: translated in rhymed alexandrine couplets | ||||
Phedre |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Penguin Books | 1992 | ||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Suitors, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | - | ||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||