Browsing Category Contemporary French Plays in English Directed for Stage

Pocket Full of Breads by Matei Vişniec (2019)

Written & Directed by Omkar Bhatkar The play is a realistic drama, a satire about human nature, talking about people like you and me…sometimes cynical, sometimes shallow, witty and ridiculous, generous and coward in the…

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Night Just Before the Forests (2019)

Written by Bernard-Marie Koltès Directed by Omkar Bhatkar The night just before the forests is a stream of words that opens up the view onto an unsettled world. This fathomless monologue travels through urban alienation,…

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Scorched (2019)

Written by Wajdi Mouawad Directed by Omkar Bhatkar Scorched is a powerful, beautifully penned story that paves a path to a mother’s unspeakable pain. Simon and his twin sister Janine have been summoned to the…

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Roberto Zucco (2018)

Written by Bernard-Marie KoltèsDirected by Omkar Bhatkar Back in the early 1980s, a young Italian man landed in a psychiatric prison for brutally stabbing his mother and father. He escaped only to leave such a…

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The Maids (2018)

Written by Jean GenetDirected by Omkar Bhatkar Genet loosely based his play on the infamous sisters Christine and Léa Papin, who brutally murdered their employer and her daughter in Le Mans, France, in 1933. Solange…

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