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Barbara Wright

BARBARA WRIGHT

  (1915 - 2009)
Nationality:    English
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd  

Barbara Wright studied music in Paris and London and worked briefly as an accompanist. A contributor to Times Literary Supplement since 1965, she has also worked as a reporter for a local London newspaper and as a critic for the Arts Review, London, for twenty years. Her first translation was Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi and her second Raymond Queneau's Exercises for Style. She has since translated ten other books by Queneau and numerous works by other twentieth-century French writers, such as Robert Pinget, Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Tournier, Tristan Tzara, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Fernando Arrabal, Marguerite Duras, Jean Dubillard, Eugene lonesco, and Jean Genet. She has received the Scott Montcrief translation prize three times and is Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 1997 her translation of Nathalie Sarraute's Here (Ici) won the French-American Translation Prize. She lives in London.

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         Abel and Bela         About Nothing         Balcony, The         Bizarre Will, A         Car Cemetry, The         Chrysanthemum         Condemned Man's Bicycle, The         Crazy Notion         Eleutheria         Fando And Lis         Guernica         Journeys Among the Dead         Marathon         Mortin Not Dead         Night         Orison         Picnic On the Battlefield         Singular Life Of Albert Nobbs         Sophism and Sadism         Swallows, The         Tricycle, The         Two Executioners, The         Ubu Roi
Abel and Bela

Abel and Bela
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Robert Pinget

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Red Dust 1987   

Music:
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Translation

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About Nothing

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Robert Pinget

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "A Bizarre Will and Other Plays" published by Red Dust 1989   

Music:
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Balcony, The

Synopsis:
set in a brothel in the midst of a revolution that has wiped out all the real holders of power except the Chief of Police who now enacts the customers fantasies

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Genet. Translated by Terry Hands And Barbara Wright

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Organisations:
RSC

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1991   

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  16            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Bizarre Will, A

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Robert Pinget

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "A Bizarre Will and Other Plays" published by Red Dust 1989   

Music:
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Car Cemetry, The

Car Cemetry, The
prostitute who follows her profession simply because religion demands that one be kind to ones neighbours

Notes:
Original Playwright - Fernando Arrabal; Aka the Automobile Graveyard

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Chrysanthemum

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Robert Pinget

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "A Bizarre Will and Other Plays" published by Red Dust 1989   

Music:
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Genre:
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Condemned Man's Bicycle, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Fernando Arrabal. Original Title - "La Bicyclette du Condamne"

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Arrabal Plays volume Two" published by Calder and Boyars 1967   

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
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Crazy Notion

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Robert Pinget

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "A Bizarre Will and Other Plays" published by Red Dust 1989   

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Eleutheria

Synopsis:
about a young man living alone in a bedsit and refusing to take part in 'normal life'

Notes:
Playwright - Samuel Beckett

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1996   

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Fando And Lis

Fando And Lis
A man pushes a pram across a desolate landscape. Inside the pram, is Lover. Bound together by mutual need and passion, they travel towards an unattainable goal. By turns violent, lyrical and blackly comic, Arrabel's neglected Absurdist masterpiece examines what love can become when hope is destroyed. . .And who are the three men with the umbrella?

Notes:
Original Playwright - Fernando Arrabal

1st Produced:
Courtyard, N1, London     21 Jul 1998

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Four Plays By Arrabal" published by John Calder 1962   

Music:
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Guernica

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Fernando Arrabal

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Arrabal Plays volume One" published by Calder and Boyars 1962   

Music:
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Translation

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Journeys Among the Dead

Synopsis:
Autobiographical dream play

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

1st Produced:
Ionesco Festival, New York     2001

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
John Calder Publishers 1981   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  7            Other:  extras

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Marathon

Synopsis:
probably the most physically exhausting play any actor has ever been obliged to perform. Set in an Olympic marathon, the three actors spend 90 minutes either running on the spot or jogging purposefully around, their faces wracked with agonies of quite genuine physical exertion.
- Nick Brown, Guardian

Notes:
Original Playwright - Claude Confortes. Translated by Barbara Wright And Vladimir Mirodan. Music Adapted by Bruce Cole from the original score by Alain Goraguer And Jules Datin

1st Produced:
Albany Empire, London     1984

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   

Music:
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Genre:
play with music Translation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  musicians

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Mortin Not Dead

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Robert Pinget

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "A Bizarre Will and Other Plays" published by Red Dust 1989   

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
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Night

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Robert Pinget

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "A Bizarre Will and Other Plays" published by Red Dust 1989   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
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Orison

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Fernando Arrabal

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Arrabal Plays volume One" published by Calder and Boyars 1962   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Picnic On the Battlefield

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Fernando Arrabal. Original title - "Pique-nique en Campagne"

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "Arrabal Plays volume Two" published by Calder and Boyars 1967   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Singular Life Of Albert Nobbs

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Simone Benmussa

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  5            Other:  voices

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Sophism and Sadism

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Robert Pinget

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Contained in: "A Bizarre Will and Other Plays" published by Red Dust 1989   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Swallows, The

Swallows, The
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Roland Dubillard

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Playscript 16" Calder & Boyars, London,    

Music:
-

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Genre:
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Tricycle, The

Synopsis:
four outcasts alternately quarrel and declare their love for each other until two are arrested for a murder

Notes:
Original Playwright - Fernando Arrabal

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Grove Press   

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Two Executioners, The

Synopsis:
rebel son objects to torture that mother inflicts on father

Notes:
Original Playwright - Fernando Arrabal

1st Produced:
New York     1960

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Calder & Boyers, London, 1962   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Ubu Roi

Synopsis:
takes place in Poland - or nowhere, deals with the cruelty of despots and the stupidity of the human condition

Notes:
Original Playwright - Alfred Jarry

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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