JEAN-PAUL SARTRE   (1905 - 1980)
adaptations/translations by modern playwrights


Jean-Paul Sartre
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Adaptations - Translations of Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre

KITTY BLACK
Crime Passionnel
1st Produced:
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1948
Company:
-
1st Published:
Methuen, London
1961
Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre
Synopsis:
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MATHEW HODSON
Erostratus
1st Produced:
White Bear, London
1993
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
Play
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre
Synopsis:
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STUART GIBERT
Flies, The
1st Produced:
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Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
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Genre:
Translation
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Parts:
Male
8
Female
6
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre
Synopsis:
the ancient Greek legend of Orestes retold in modern idiom
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STUART GILBERT
Huis Clos
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Huis Clos and Other Plays, Penguin
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Genre:
Translation
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Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre
Synopsis:
Three people find that Hell is not what they thought it would be.
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FRANK HAUSER
Huis Clos (No Way Out)
1st Produced:
2005
Company:
State of Play
1st Published:
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-
Genre:
Adapatation/translation
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Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre
Synopsis:
Hell is other people. Three damned souls find that, instead of the murderous imps with racks and pincers they are expecting, their punishmnet is to sit with each other for all eternity; they soon realise this will be punishment enough
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ROB MELROSE
No Exit
1st Produced:
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2004
Company:
Cutting Ball Theatre
1st Published:
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-
Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre
Synopsis:
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KITTY BLACK
Kean
1st Produced:
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1954
Company:
-
1st Published:
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-
Genre:
Translation
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre
Synopsis:
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FRANK HAUSER
Kean
1st Produced:
Oxford layhouse
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
Genre:
Translation
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Parts:
Male
10
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre. Adapted from the play by Alexandre Dumas
Synopsis:
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KITTY BLACK
Lucifer And The Lord
1st Produced:
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1952
Company:
-
1st Published:
Published
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Genre:
Translation
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Parts:
Male
16
Female
4
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre
Synopsis:
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KITTY BLACK
Men Without Shadows
1st Produced:
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1947
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
Translation
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre
Synopsis:
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R J NORTH
Mouches, Les
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Harrap
1963
Genre:
Adapatation/translation
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Parts:
Male
7
Female
6
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre
Synopsis:
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GEORGE LEESON
Nekrassov
1st Produced:
Unity Theatre, London
1956
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
Genre:
Translation
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Parts:
Male
17
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre. Adapted by George and Sylvia Leeson
Synopsis:
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SYLVIA LEESON
Nekrassov
1st Produced:
Unity Theatre, London
1956
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
Genre:
Translation
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Parts:
Male
17
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre. Adapted by George and Sylvia Leeson
Synopsis:
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PAUL BOWLES
No Exit
1st Produced:
2005
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre
Synopsis:
Three people find themselves in Hell after a lifetime of living badly. Inez and Estelle are sexual predators - Estelle heterosexual and Inez not. Cradeau is a self-regarding prig and a coward. (Estelle is in addition hopelessly vain. It is a particular feature of her Hell that there are no mirrors.). For the three of them, Hell is a room in a bad hotel, with dusty Swedish-modern furnishings. They quickly get down to the business of ferreting out each other's sins, thus revealing the acts which have landed them in Hell. ('They've made a saving in their hired help,'Inez observes. 'Each of us is the torturer of the other two.') Armed with this information, they each use it as a club to achieve their impossible objectives: Estelle, to win the love of Cradeau; Inez, to win the love of Estelle; and Cradeau, to lie down in silence with a handkerchief over his face. When they are not so employed they tune in to see how they are regarded, post mortem, in life. It is invariably a disappointment. 'Hell is other people,'Cradeau observes famously at the end of the play, but he is wrong. Hell is these other people who are so fatuous and obnoxious that they would make Mother Therese mutter and curse, and St. Francis of Assisi bang his head against the wall. There are plenty of people, including Sartre himself, who would be swell company throughout eternity, even in a bad hotel room.
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FRANK HAUSER
No Way Out
1st Produced:
Cochrane, London
2001
Company:
4th Wall Entertainment
1st Published:
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Genre:
Adapatation/translation
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Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre. Revival
Synopsis:
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RICHARD EYRE
Novice, The
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre
Synopsis:
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KITTY BLACK
Respectable Prostitute, The
1st Produced:
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1947
Company:
-
1st Published:
Published
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Genre:
Translation
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Parts:
Male
5
Female
1
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre
Synopsis:
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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Respectable Prostitute, The
1st Produced:
1993
Company:
-
1st Published:
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-
Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre
Synopsis:
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RONALD DUNCAN
Trojan Women, The
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1967
Company:
-
1st Published:
Hamish Hamilton, London
1967
Genre:
Adapatation/translation
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Parts:
Male
4
Female
5
Parts Other:
chorus
Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre based on play by Euripides
Synopsis:
dwells on one brief moment in the Trojan war when all the Trojan men are dead and the women and children are waiting to be shipped into slavery
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