Trump Unbound

About the author: 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 Moliere’s ＂The Bourgeois Gentilhomme＂ (2008), ＂The School For Wives＂ (2009), and Sganarelle (2010), as well as Beaumarchais’s ＂The Marriage of Figaro＂ (2010) were all produced to critical acclaim at City Garage. His play ＂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, as well as ＂The Bourgeois Gentilhomme.＂ ＂The Marriage of Figaro＂ won the Weekly’s award for Best Translation. He is also the author of the short story collection ＂Ceremonies of Unendurable Bondage and Other Stories＂ (2001). In 2009, along with Frederique Michel he was awarded the LA Weekly’s ＂Queen of the Angels＂ award, and in 2011 he and Michel received the Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Circle Award for ＂Sustained Excellence in Theatre.＂ Other original plays for City Garage are ＂Caged＂ (2013), ＂Bulgakov/Moliere＂ (2014), ＂Timepiece＂ (2015), ＂Hamletmachine: The Arab Spring＂ (2015), which was nominated by Stage Raw for Best Adaptation, ＂Othello/Desdemona＂ (2016), and ＂Phoebe Zeitgeist Returns to Earth＂ (2016).