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  • Amphitryon
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    Amphitryon

    Eric Overmyer, Moliere, Heinrich von Kleist, Jean Giraudoux
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    Play Description

    A comical, anachronistic, and witty retelling of the Greek myth, composed “after Kleist by way of Molière with a little bit of Giraudoux.”

    Production Info

    Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
    Categories: The Plays, Classics Tags: European, German, French
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    Press Quotes

    “The story of Jupiter’s cuckolding of Amphitryon has come in a variety of theatrical styles over the centuries. Plautus, by all accounts, had great success with it as a burlesque for the Romans; Molière turned it into a farce, of course; Kleist made a romance of it; and Giraudoux fashioned it into a fantasy. In the new version, Mr Overmyer seems to aim for the sophistication of a Saturday Night Live skit, a sort of Classics Comics for the theater.” —Wilborn Hampton, The New York Times

    Author(s)

    • Jean Giraudoux

      Jean Giraudoux was a French playwright, novelist, and diplomat whose witty, originally expressed works in an impressionistic style helped free French theater from the restrictions of realism. He wrote fifteen internationally acclaimed plays, most initially staged by the actor-director Louis Jouvet. Giraudoux was born in the village of Bellac on October 29, 1882. He received his education at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the University of Munich, and Harvard University. In his youth Giraudoux traveled extensively to Germany, Italy, the Balkans, Canada, and the United States, where he spent a year (1906-07) as an instructor at Harvard. Returning to France, he entered the French foreign service in 1910. He served in World War I, was twice wounded, and became the first writer ever to be awarded the wartime Legion of Honor. He became director of information of France in 1929 and held a similar post under the government of Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, the so-called Vichy regime. Giraudoux first won literary acclaim for several novels that appeared shortly after World War I, including My Friend from Limousin (1922) and Églantine (1927). These were followed by such internationally successful plays as SIEGFRIED (1928), JUDITH (1931), AMPHITRYON 38 (1929), INTERMEZZO (1933), TIGER AT THE GATES (1935), ÉLECTRE (1937), and ONDINE (1939). Many of these were modern treatments of ancient Greek stories. In 1943 he completed his last play, the satirical LA FOLLE DE CHAILLOT, produced posthumously in France in 1945 and produced in the United States. in 1947 as THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT. Giraudoux also wrote numerous short stories and was one of France's outstanding essayists during the interwar years, best known for such literary studies as Racine (1930) and such political studies as Pleins Pouvoirs (Full Powers, 1939). At the start of World War II he served as minister of information under Premier Édouard Daladier. He died on January 31, 1944. A novel, La Menteuse, was discovered in 1968 and published in English as The Lying Woman in 1972.

    • Molière

      Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622 – 1673), known as Molière, was a French dramatist, director, and actor, and one of the world's greatest masters of comic satire. Of his nearly 40 plays, his most famous are TARTUFFE, THE MISER, THE LEARNED LADIES, THE MISANTHROPE, and THE IMAGINARY INVALID.

    • Eric Overmyer

      Eric Overmyer is a playwright and a television writer and producer. He graduated as a theater major from Reed College in 1973. His plays include ON THE VERGE, THE HELIOTROPE BOUQUET, IN A PIG'S VALISE, DON QUIXOTE DE LA JOLLA, NATIVE SPEECH, MI VIDA LOCA, IN PERPETUITY THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE, and DARK RAPTURE. Mr Overmyer has written extensively for television, including for Homicide: Life on the Street, The Wire and Law & Order, and has been nominated for two Emmy Awards. He received an Edgar Award for the television feature Rear Window. Overmyer was also a co-creator of the HBO series Treme, about musicians in post-Katrina New Orleans.

    • Heinrich von Kleist

      Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (1777 – 1811) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, and short story writer. His most successful play during his lifetime was KÄTCHEN OF HEILBRONN (1808), but he is perhaps best remembered as a playwright for his adaptation of Molière's AMPHITRYON (1807) and for his play PENTHESILEA (1808) about the queen of the Amazons.

    Book Information

    Publisher BPPI
    Publication Date 9/1/1996
    Pages 76
    ISBN 9780881451276

    Special Notes

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    Originally produced by CSC Repertory in New York

    In addition, the following must appear within all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play:

    Amphitryon is produced
    by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
    www.broadwayplaypub.com

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