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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

 

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