Bulgakov/Moliere

Charles Duncombe is the author of the City Garage texts Atrocities (2000), Cinema Stories: Ceremonies of Unendurable Bondage (2002), Oedipustext/LA (2003) Patriot Act: A Reality Show (2004), and Caged (2014). 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 Moliere’s The Bourgeois Gentilhomme and The School For Wives premiered in 2009 and 2010 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 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. He lives in Los Angeles.