My Brilliant Divorce

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A play by Geraldine Aron

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Perhaps her most successful play to date, it premiered at The Druid Theatre in Ireland, Nov 2001, directed by Garry Hynes with Dawn French. (Repeated 2003, 2007-2010) and the production played at the Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London in 2003. It had its American premiere in 2012 at the Bay Street Theater, the Long Wharf, in Sag Harbor, directed by Matt McGrath with Polly Draper. (For the American production, Angela was transformed into an American who moved to London after meeting her husband in New York.)

Also produced in 31 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Holland, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Kenya, Luxemburg, Malta, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela.

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Brilliant_Divorce) lists for example performenaces by The Phoenix Players Theatre, Nairobi; Amiral Theatre, Athens; The Apollo Shaftesbury, London; Druid Theatre, Galway; Divadlo Na Fidlovačce, Prague and the Downstage Theatre, Wellington, NZ. Taken on tour in Ireland by the Jasango Theatre Company in 2014-2015 (Directed by George B. Miller, with Angela Ryan.)


Published as an acting edition by Samuel French, 2003.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

2002-2003: First performed in South Africa in the Studio Theatre at Montecasino in 2003-2004. Directed by Tim Plewman, with Fiona Ramsay.

Sources

http://www.druid.ie/alpha-index/mno

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine_Aron

http://www.theagency.co.uk/clients/clientdisplay.html?viewListing=MTE3OQ==

https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL416128A/Geraldine_Aron

http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/Reviews/Current/My-Brilliant-Divorce

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/nyregion/a-review-of-my-brilliant-divorce-at-the-bay-street-theater.html?_r=0

Peter Feldman: Review in Artslink (11/21/2003)[1]

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