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JULES RENARD (1864 - 1910) |
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Nationality: French Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Accomplished novelist, journalist and essayist as well as playwright, Jules Renard turned several of his novels and stories into plays, including Poil de carotte (Carrot Head) a bittersweet story based on his own unhappy childhood, produced by the prestigious Comedie-française as recently as the spring of 2011. This and his two one-act plays, Le Plaisir de rompre (1897) and Le Pain de menage (1898) both more sweet than bitter, constitute his main theatrical legacy.
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Jules Renard
Colour of Grass, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mermaid Theatre, Bray One-Act Festival, Co. Wicklow, EI | 27 Jan 2012 | ||||
Organisations: | Dalkey Players, County Dublin, EI | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #146080 | |||
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Genre: | One-act comedy translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Jules Renard. Yearning, flirting and other realities of marriage portrayed with wit, candour and insight. The Colour of Grass is translated and adapted from Jules Renard's 1898 play, Le Pain de menage. The setting is clearly France, but with theme and characters of such continuing relevance I have used language that would not be out of place at any time in the 20th century. This 30-minute two-hander can be staged alone or as part of What The Heart Wants, the translator's comic trilogy on the theme of marital fidelity. | |||||
Synopsis: | Late evening: Marthe and Pierre walk into the garden in mid-conversation, a bottle and two glasses in hand. "In all the time you've been married, you've never been with another woman?" she teases. Marthe's husband and Pierre's wife have retired early, leaving them to have the kind of intimate, playful conversation each has been longing for. They remind themselves how happily married they each are . . . aren't they? | |||||
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