Patriot Act: A Reality Show

Charles Duncombe is the author of the City Garage texts Atrocities (2000), Cinema Stories: Ceremonies of Unendurable Bondage (2002), Oedipustext/LA (2003) and Patriot Act: A Reality Show (2004). He also wrote the company’s adaptations of Heiner Muller: Medeatext; Los Angeles/Despoiled Shore (2000); Frederick of Prussia/George W’s Dream of Sleep (2001); and The Mission (Accomplished) (2008). His English-language versions (with Frederique Michel) of Moliere’s The Bourgeois Gentilhomme, The School For Wives, and Sganarelle premiered in 2009, 2010 and 2011 at City Garage. Patriot Act won the 2004 Fratti-Newman Award for Political Playwriting. All three of his Muller adaptations were nominated for the LA Weekly’s ＂Best Adaptation＂ award, as was his contemporary version of The Trojan Women: LA/Dafur Dreamscape in 2010. He is also the author of the short story collection Ceremonies of Unendurable Bondage and Other Stories. He lives in Los Angeles.