Plays in Translation Production History

  • 1789, Théâtre du Soleil (Sibikwa Arts Centre, 2023)
  • 1793, Théâtre du Soleil
  • Autophagies (Self-Eaters), Eva Doumbia & Armand Gauz (The Invisible Dog Art Center + Ashé Cultural Arts Center, 2023)
    • Autophagies (Self-Eaters), Eva Doumbia & Armand Gauz (staged reading) (Alliance Française of New Orleans, 2022)
  • I wouldn't have made it here if..., multiple authors (supertitles) (Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz, 2022)
  • e-smuggler.com, Sedef Ecer (staged reading) (Voyage Theater Company, New York Public Library, 2018)
  • First Lady, Sedef Ecer
  • The Heart, Maylis de Kerangal (supertitles) (FIAF, 2019)
  • Louise, she's crazy, Leslie Kaplan (The Melancholy Players, Sarah Lawrence College, 2013)
  • Porcelain Ballet, Anne-Claude de Caylus
  • Portrait of Ludmilla as Nina Simone, David Lescot (supertitles) (Seuls en Scène Festival, 2018)
  • The Day My Father Killed Me, Charlotte Boimare & Magali Solignat (Zoom reading) (Voyage Theater Company, 2020)
    • The Day My Father Killed Me, Charlotte Boimare & Magali Solignat (staged reading) (CUNY Segal Center, 2019)
  • The Inherent Burden of Me, Guy Régis, Jr. (supertitles) (Seuls en Scène Festival, 2022)
  • The Last Scene, Alain Foix (staged reading) (Voyage Theater Company, New York Public Library, 2017)
  • The Possessed of Illfurth, Yann Verburgh with Lionel Lingelser (supertitles) (Seuls en Scène Festival, 2023)
  • Tracks, Trails, and Traces..., Penda Diouf (Seuls en Scène Festival, 2020)


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Jon Fosse is one of only a handful of playwrights to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature out of 120 people in the last twelve decades. With this rarity, it is important to acknowledge the lack of access we have in the U.S. to experience masterful international plays. Why is it important for the American theatre to experience plays from abroad? And how can we move the needle to encourage more production of plays in translation into American-English?
South African woman on stage in petticoats

1789 at Sibikwa

VERY OCCASIONALLY, YOU feel that sense of privilege in the presence of an artwork that brings tears and goosebumps. From the very first roll of the snare drum with the thunder of a jembe and a dun-dun behind it, Sibikwa’s 1789 will have you transfixed. It’s immersion theatre like nothing you may have experienced before, and it will take your heart and spirit and shift it all seismically for an unspeakably fine 90 minutes.

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