Atrocities: Hallucinations of Chechnya

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 Müller: 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 Frédérique Michel) of Molière’s The Bourgeois Gentleman and The School For Wives premiered in 2008 and 2009 at City Garage. Patriot Act won the 2004 Fratti-Newman Award for Political Playwriting. All three of his Müller adaptations were nominated for the LA Weekly’s ＂Best Adaptation＂ award, as was The Trojan Women: LA/Darfur 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.