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Barbara Field, Playwright
Barbara Field has had work produced across the United States, Canada and Europe. She served as playwright-in-residence at the distinguished Guthrie Theater from 1974 to 1981, creating a number of pieces: her translations include Marriage (Gogol), Monsieur de Moliere (Bulgakov), and Pantagleize (Ghelderode). Adaptations for the Guthrie from novels include Camille (Dumas) and Playing With Fire, a response to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. An adaptation commissioned by the Seattle Children's Theater of Great Expectations later played at the Guthrie and traveled the country on an 8-month tour. A revival of Great Expectations recently won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award. Field's adaptation of A Christmas Carol has been part of the Guthrie's and the Missouri Rep's seasons for 27 years. |
Barbara Field |
| Her adaptation of Scaramouche was produced by the Washington Shakespeare Theatre in 2003. For the Seattle Children's Theater she adapted The Boxcar Children in 1999. Her adaptation of Dreams in the Golden Country was recently performed at the Kennedy Center, and will go on tour in fall 2003. Her original work includes Neutral Countries, first produced at the Actors Theater of Louisville's Humana Festival in 1983, where it was named Best American Play; Coming of Age for the Indiana Rep; Quality Time for the Pennsylvania Stage Company; Boundary Waters for California's South Coast Rep (it subsequently won a 1992 DramaLogue Award); and Off the Ice for the Repertory Theater of St. Louis. She has written one opera libretto, Rosina (composer Hiram Titus), which was commissioned and produced by the Minnesota Opera, and has subsequently been seen elsewhere around the country. With Titus she created a musical, The Skinflint, for the Repertory Theater of St. Louis and The Grand Excursion for the Great American History Theater of St. Paul. Field is a founding member of the Playwrights' Center, Minneapolis, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (B.A.) and the University of Minnesota (M.A.), she has served as a panel member and site reporter for the N.E.A. Ms Field makes her home in Minneapolis. Publications Publications include Playing With Fire, Boundary Waters, Marriage and Great Expectations (Dramatists Play Service), and a newly published collection of her seven adaptations for the Guthrie Theater, Classic Plays for the American Theater (Smith and Kraus, 2003). |
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