Ranjit Bolt

Ranjit Bolt
Ranjit Bolt is one of Britain's leading translators for the stage. His translations have been produced by the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Sir Peter Hall, and by leading repertory theatres in the US. His work covers an enormous variety of classic plays, among them Les Femmes Savantes (The Sisterhood), Tartuffe, The Liar, Lysistrata, Cyrano de Bergerac and The Waltz of the Toreadors. Mr. Ranjit was awarded an OBE in the 2003 New Year honours list for services to literature.Perform Ranjit Bolt
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The Sisterhood
Jean Baptiste Molière, Ranjit Bolt
Full-Length Play, ComedyThe Sisterhood
Jean Baptiste Molière , Ranjit Bolt
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 5w, 5m
This audacious adaptation of Les Femmes Savantes, Moliere's mischievous farce indicting intellectual ladies of the salons, is liberally peppered with contemporary allusions which put it firmly in the present.…
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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (tr. Bolt)
Bertolt Brecht, Ranjit Bolt
Full-Length Play, Satire/Political SatireThe Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (tr. Bolt)
Full-Length Play, Satire/Political Satire / 2w, 28m
A grimly humourous 'parable play' in blank verse, in which Hitler's rise to power is illustrated in the story of a small-time gangster's take-over of the greengrocery trade in Chicago. A brief six-line Epilogue points out how nearly Hitler ruled the world.
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The Sisterhood
Jean Baptiste Molière, Ranjit Bolt
Full-Length Play, ComedyThe Sisterhood
Jean Baptiste Molière , Ranjit Bolt
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 5w, 5m
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The Miser / the Idiot
Jean Baptiste Molière, Ranjit Bolt
The Miser / the Idiot
Jean Baptiste Molière , Ranjit Bolt