Plays
and Translations
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Original
Plays
MACHIAVELLI:
The Art of Terror, a play about Niccolò Machiavelli and
Cesare Borgia. Professionally produced for a five-week run at
the Hayworth Theatre, Los Angeles, in 2006 and previously (in
an earlier version, titled The Prince) at the Pittsburgh Playhouse,
Madach Theatre of Budapest (Hungary), California Repertory Theatre,
and in staged readings at the Manhattan Theatre Source in New
York and the Matrix Theatre in Los Angeles. Published (as The
Prince) by Dramatic Publishing Company. “Grabs the stage
and doesn’t let go,” L.A. Times. “GO! A fascinating
rumination on the seductiveness of power,” --L.A.
Weekly
THE
MÖBIUS STRIP, play about gay-straight
relations in an east coast family. Staged reading at the Roundabout
Theatre, NYC. “Obscenely perceptive,” L.A.
Times; “Biting hilarity,” --Daily
Pilot
Play
Translations
TIBI’S
LAW,
play for two actors, set in a rural African cemetery in the
present day. “A startling clash of theatricality and sobering
mortality,” L.A. Times. Winner, “Critic’s
Pick” and “Best Actor of 2003-04, --L.A.
Weekly
THE
MISANTHROPE, rhyming translation of Molière’s
1666 classic, set in its own time but with a contemporary energy
and vivacity. “Highly entertaining translation brings
refreshing pungency to a lunatic production,” --L.A.
Times
PEDRO
GYNT, two-hour, mixed Spanish and English adaptation
of the Ibsen masterpiece, set in Mexico. “An ecstatic
whirlwind ride,” --Irvine World News
THE
BOURGEOIS GENTLEMAN, translation of Molière’s
greatest prose play. “A triumph,” --Irvine
World News
THE
PLAIE CALLED CORPUS CHRISTI: THE BEGINNINGS,
two-hour adaptation of medieval plays from The Creation to Abraham
and Isaac. “Powerful and beautiful,” --L.A.
Times
CLIZIA,
translation of Machiavelli’s 16th century commedia erudita
– the early commedia dell’arte.
Opera
Translations
CARMEN,
Bizet’s classic set on today’s Mexican-American
border. “Passionate and seductive… worth killing
and dying for,” Orange County Register. “Hot and
spicy… reintroduces the shock value this opera originally
had,” --Irvine World News
THE
MAGIC FLUTE, Mozart’s masterpiece “splendidly
captures the essence of this spiritual-comic-serious-fantastic
opera.” --L.A. Times
