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MAARTEN VONDER (1953 - ) |
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Nationality: Dutch Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: I.B.V.A. |
Maarten Vonder studied sociology and Dutch literature and worked as a professional dramatist in the fringe theatre for 15 years between 1985 and 2000. His plays include drama, comedy, musical theatre, adaptations and translations (notably: Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus). His play Patrol to Potocari about the fall of Srebrenica (1995) acquired nationwide attention and was recorded by BBC World Service as "the first play on UN peacekeeping operations ever". An English translation also exists of his No, no, Orestes!, a black comedy type reworking of the Sophocles/Euripides tragedy.
Plays by Maarten Vonder
No, no, Orestes! | ||
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| 1st Published: | Toneeluitgeverij Grosfeld b.v., Berlicum Holland (1996) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96672 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 5 (doubles possible) | |||||
Notes: | Originally 1986, translation available from author (not online) | |||||
Synopsis: | Hilarically black comedy, derived from Euripides and Sophocles, the play focuses on the existential No! by Orestes to his historical fate, the murdering of his mother and stepfather. Everyone meeting everybody else, the only two evading each other - Orestes and Electra - finally meet in an apocalyptical ending. | |||||
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Patrol to Potocari | ||
| 1st Produced: | De Engelenbak, Amsterdam | 1995 | ||||
Company: | Toneelgroep Europa | |||||
| 1st Published: | Toneeluitgeverij Grosfeld b.v., Berlicum Holland (1996) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96671 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | documentary/comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 6 (w. doubles, gender n/a) | |||||
Notes: | Produced by the author and directed by famous Dutch director Chaim Levano three months after the event, the play attracted nationwide attention and was labeled by BBC World Service als "first play on UN peacekeeping operations ever". English translation available on author's website (also in German). | |||||
Synopsis: | Semi-documentary on the fall of Srebrenica, seen from three Dutch UN peacekeepers. In satirical style, it relates the storming of the town by Serbian troops, the overhasty flight (the "patrol") back to base and the massacre of Bosnian men. One of the soldiers deserts to get to know the truth. | |||||
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