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Peter Turrini

PETER TURRINI   (1944 - )

Nationality:   Austrian    Email:   Click here to contact    Website:   Click here to visit

Thomas Sessler Verlag, Vienna

Peter Turrini (b. 1944 in St. Margareten, Carinthia, Austria) belongs to the most successful writers of the German speaking contemporary theatre world. His first play, "Shooting Rats" (1971, first UK production in 2009) provoked a major scandal and changed the way of German theatre writing. For many years the outspoken political and social critic was one of Austria's most controversial and uncompromising young dramatists. Meanwhile he has become a much-noted moral authority. Despite massive verbal attacks, Turrini never shied away from taking a firm stand. Turrini's extensive work includes plays (numerous of them premiered at the National Burgtheater in Vienna), as well as novels, essays, opera librettos, speeches, radio plays, and screenplays. His sociocritical statements and proclamations are always very clear and unambiguous - even when expressed as parables. Rather than presenting an authentic picture of reality, in Turrini's understanding it is the function of the theatre to exaggerate and, by doing so, to raise the consciousness of the public.

Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Peter Turrini

RICHARD DIXON  

Alpine Glow

1st Produced:

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Organisations:

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1st Published:

Ariadne Press (CA) (April 1994)

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0929497952

Music:

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#76636

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Genre:

Translation

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Notes:

Original Playwright - Peter Turrini

Alpine Glow

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RICHARD DIXON  

Crazy Day, A

1st Produced:

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Organisations:

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1st Published:

Contained in: "The Slackers and Other Plays" published by Ariadne Press, 1992

ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

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Parts other:

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Notes:

Original Playwright - Peter Turrini

Synopsis:

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Further Reference:

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PENNY BLACK  

Death and the Devil

1st Produced:

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1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

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Parts other:

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Notes:

Original Playwright - Peter Turrini

Synopsis:

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HERBERT KUHNER  

Infanticide

1st Produced:

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Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

University of Texas Press, 1978

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#76732

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

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Female

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Parts other:

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Notes:

Original Playwright - Peter Turrini

Synopsis:

n/a

Further Reference:

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ANTHONY MEECH  

Infanticide

1st Produced:

Camden People's Theatre, 58-60 Hampstead Road, London NW1 2PY >>>

15 Oct 2013

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

Male

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Female

1

Parts other:

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Notes:

Original Playwright - Peter Turrini

Synopsis:

Infanticide presents the young mother standing on trial. Interrupted by the voices of the judge, her father and her boyfriend who urge her to justify herself, she reveals her story, her confusion, her anger and her pain. Can her crime be understood as a political act? Composed as a powerful psychological monologue, the play interweaves thought and heart in a skilful theatrical way. Forty years after its initial opening in Austria, this critically acclaimed play by the successful political playwright Peter Turrini finally arrives on a British stage.

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DAVID ROGERS  

Josef and Maria

1st Produced:

Soho Poly, London

1982

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

Contained in: "Gambit International Theatre Review 39/40",

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

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#76748

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

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Female

0

Parts other:

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Notes:

Original Playwright - Peter Turrini

Synopsis:

n/a

Further Reference:

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RICHARD DIXON  

Joseph and Mary

1st Produced:

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- - -

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

Contained in: "The Slackers and Other Plays" published by Ariadne Press, 1992

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#77349

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

Male

-

Female

0

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Peter Turrini

Synopsis:

n/a

Further Reference:

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RACHEL BRISCOE  

Shooting Rats

1st Produced:

Octagon Hall, Old Lilian Baylis School, London

2009

Organisations:

Fanshen Theatre Company

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#104772

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

1

Female

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Parts other:

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Notes:

Original Playwright - Peter Turrini. This is the British premier of the first play written by now well established Austrian dramatist Peter Turrini in 1967. Based on an idea from Willard Manus and written in Viennese dialect (the published text found it necessary to print a parallel German text to make it comprehensible to non-Viennese) what is presented follows Turrini's requirement that any production should be relocated to the time and place of its performance. What is presented here, a co-production with Oval House Theatre Elsewhere project, has been adapted by co-director Rachel Briscoe improvising with a group of actors and work-shopping with young South Londoners to develop a piece that stays true to the structure and intention of the original while reflecting contemporary and local experience.

Synopsis:

When a boy takes a girl for a first date on a rubbish dump, its pretty clear what he has in mind. He wants to expose the pointlessness of consumerist society, force her to recognise the layers of junk that people hide themselves behind. And then have sex.
- Maddy Costa, Guardian

Further Reference:

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RICHARD DIXON  

Slackers, The

1st Produced:

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Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

Contained in: "The Slackers and Other Plays" published by Ariadne Press, 1992

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#77350

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

Male

-

Female

0

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Peter Turrini

Synopsis:

n/a

Further Reference:

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PENNY BLACK  

Slaughtering the Pig

1st Produced:

White Bear Theatre, 138 Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4DJ >>>

1995

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#46595

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Peter Turrini

Synopsis:

n/a

Further Reference:

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RICHARD DIXON  

Social Engagement, A

1st Produced:

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Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

Contained in: "The Slackers and Other Plays" published by Ariadne Press, 1992

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#77351

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

Male

-

Female

0

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Peter Turrini

Synopsis:

n/a

Further Reference:

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RICHARD DIXON  

Swine

1st Produced:

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- - -

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

Contained in: "An Anthology of Contemporary Austrian Folk Plays" published by Ariadne Press, 1984

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#76867

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

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-

Female

0

Parts other:

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Notes:

Original Playwright - Peter Turrini

Synopsis:

n/a

Further Reference:

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