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ROLAND SCHIMMELPFENNIG (1967 - ) |
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Nationality: German Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: S. Fischer Verlag GmbH USA representation AO International |
Award-winning playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig is one of the most exciting voices in European drama. He has worked as a journalist, translator and dramaturg, and is currently writer in residence at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. Schimmelpfennig's widely performed plays include Vorher/Nachher, Push Up, Vor Ianger Zeit im Mai, MEZ, Keine Arbeit fur die junge Frau im Fruhlingskleid, Fisch um Fisch and Aus den Stadten in die Walder, Aus den Waldern in die Stadten.
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Roland Schimmelpfennig
Arabian Nights | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51839 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | cast size 5 | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Roland Schimmelpfennig | |||||
Synopsis: | Based in a run-down high-rise somewhere in contemporary Germany, Arabian Night takes us into the lives, dreams and fantasies of five unique individuals on one enchanted summer's evening. Hans, the inquisitive caretaker, can't work out why the water has run dry above floor eight; he's gone to investigate - Fatima the sensitive lodger anxiously awaits her lover, Kalil, who is mysteriously trapped between floors in an elevator - Franziska, the dreamy amnesiac falls asleep each night and forgets her day every day - And Peter, the romantic voyeur, trespasses through unlocked doors least of all expecting what he finds - All of their lives cross on this fateful humid night: an Arabian Night for the modern age. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Boulevard of the Brave (Auf der Greifswalder Strasse) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, Studio Theatre, University of Toronto | 30 Jan 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | S. Fischer | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #125787 | |||
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Genre: | translation / drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | with doubling | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Roland Schimmelpfennig | |||||
Synopsis: | In the course of 24 hours, the lives of 37 people who live, work, visit and die on a low-income street in Berlin's North-East intersect in seemingly banal and accidental ways. With his own signature dramaturgy of laconic, hyper-realistic snap shots, magic realism, fairy tale and prose narrative Roland Schimmelpfennig leads the spectator's gaze back and forth between the two sides of a loud and busy street-from one human fate to the next, spanning generations bound together by this neighborhood of the forgotten. | |||||
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For A Better World | ||
| 1st Produced: | SBW Stables Theatre, 10 Nimrod Street, , Kings Cross NSW 2011, Australia >>> | 08 Jan 2011 | ||||
Company: | Company No. 3 and Griffin Independent Australian Premiere | |||||
| 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 | #114784 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Roland Schimmelpfennig | |||||
Synopsis: | In an isolated jungle - sometime in the future - a unit of eight men and women fight an unknown enemy. It is a war that has gone on so long no-one can remember why it started or imagine how it can end. Soldiers have lost touch with reality, glass-eating aliens have infiltrated their ranks, and unit Delta Zero's massacre replays itself night after night in the same dark clearing. Blowing apart the idea of war as entertainment, this amoral epic is a provocative work from one of Germany's most celebrated contemporary playwrights. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Golden Dragon, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 12 May 2011 | |||||
Company: | ATC and Drum Theatre Production | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849431248 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #128035 | |||
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Genre: | translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Roland Schimmelpfennig. World premiere Burgtheater, Vienna on 05 Sep 2009. English language premiere at the Drum. | |||||
| Number 6: Thai soup with chicken, coconut milk, Thai ginger, tomatoes, button mushrooms, lemon grass and lemon leaves (hot). On a typical evening, anywhere in Europe, you walk into your local Thai/Chinese/Vietnamese restaurant, and the whole world is there. Everyone connected to everyone else, through this one place. . . The Golden Dragon is a funny and theatrical fable of modern life and migration, whisking you from your local takeaway to East Asia and back, revealing what really goes into that bowl of spicy soup. Are you hungry yet? | |||||
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Push Up | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #38700 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Roland Schimmelpfennig | |||||
Synopsis: | Everyone wants to get to the executive suite. Everyone wants the Delhi job. Everyone wants sex, everyone wants love. So, they push for it. Push Up is set in a world we all know: the world of work | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Start Up | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | GTA's Road Theater USA | |||||
| 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 | #73274 | |||
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Genre: | multimedia performance piece Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Roland Schimmelpfennig | |||||
Synopsis: | GTAs Road Theater USA embarks on a theatrical adventureor misadventureas five actors (three German and two from the U.S.), two Austrian video artists, and the GTA team go cross-country in a tricked-out school bus, travelling from New York to Los Angeles in search of the 'American Dream' and touring the world premiere of Start Up. In Start Up, an assorted crew of merry pranksters come up with what they believe is their million-euro idea: to sell German culture to Americanswhich is of course the exact same thing that GTA is doing as it travels across the country presenting this fast-paced farce. A video team documents this ambitious road trip, then mines the video material collected up to that point live during each performance where it is projected on set. This always new and expanded dramatic 'Road Journal' will interact with the production of the play as background and stage design. The audience is treated to a unique and ever-changing performance event, a combination of the filmed 'reality' of the tour and the theatrical 'fiction' of the play | |||||
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Woman Before, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon, London, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #53264 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Roland Schimmelpfennig | |||||
Synopsis: | 'You swore that you'd love me for ever'. Frank doesn't recognise the woman at the door. She's come to remind him of a promise he made twenty years before. A darkly humorous study of modern relationships and the things we say that may come back to haunt us. | |||||
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