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I'm Going! : A Comedy in One Act
I'm Going! : A Comedy in One Act
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Tristan Bernard stands in much the same relation to contemporary French drama as George Cohan does to that of the United States: in his comedies the most amusing types of the society of the day are set forth with a good-humor and freshness which gives them an individual charm all their own. Many of his numerous plays are broad farces, but there is a philosophical strain running throughout, which raises them out of the realm of the purely theatrical.
In "On nait esclave" and "Le Petit Cafe", for instance, we find a serious comment on life; this however, never interferes with the joyous course of the comedy, but rather forms a solid background.
"Je Vais m'en aller", which is here translated into English for the first time, is a very simple little dialog, illustrative of the early work of this dramatist. There are no difficulties in the way of staging or acting for amateurs.
The main characters, Henri and Jeanne, are in the middle of disagreement. Henri wants to go to the races alone but his wife would like to share his company. The play continues from here.
Tristan Bernard (7 September 1866 – 7 December 1947) was a French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer.
After his first publication in La Revue Blanche in 1891, he became increasingly a writer and adopted the pseudonym Tristan. His first play, Les Pieds Nickelés (Nickel-plated Feet), was a great success and was representative of the style of his later work (generally humorous). He became known especially for his writing for vaudeville-type performances, which were very popular in France during that time. He also wrote several novels and some poetry.
Bernard is remembered mainly for witticisms, particularly from his play Les Jumeaux de Brighton (The Brighton Twins).
He was interned during World War II at the Drancy deportation camp. When Gestapo agents were at his door he turned to his wife, who was crying, and said "Don´t cry, we were living in fear, but from now on we will live in hope".
Public protest of his imprisonment caused his release in 1943. He died in Paris four years later, allegedly of the results of his internment, and was buried in Passy cemetery.
The Théâtre Tristan-Bernard in Paris, which he ran under this name briefly in 1931, was later renamed that in his honour. His descendants have achieved some notoriety. His son, Raymond Bernard became an influential French filmmaker (using as scripts a number of works authored by his father) while his son Jean-Jacques Bernard published a memoir of his father in 1955 titled Mon père Tristan Bernard (My Father, Tristan Bernard). Tristan Bernard's grandson Christian Bernard is the current Imperator of the Rosicrucian organization AMORC. One of his grand-nephews is Francis Veber, a screenwriter, director and playwright whose films have been frequently remade or adapted in Hollywood.
In "On nait esclave" and "Le Petit Cafe", for instance, we find a serious comment on life; this however, never interferes with the joyous course of the comedy, but rather forms a solid background.
"Je Vais m'en aller", which is here translated into English for the first time, is a very simple little dialog, illustrative of the early work of this dramatist. There are no difficulties in the way of staging or acting for amateurs.
The main characters, Henri and Jeanne, are in the middle of disagreement. Henri wants to go to the races alone but his wife would like to share his company. The play continues from here.
Tristan Bernard (7 September 1866 – 7 December 1947) was a French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer.
After his first publication in La Revue Blanche in 1891, he became increasingly a writer and adopted the pseudonym Tristan. His first play, Les Pieds Nickelés (Nickel-plated Feet), was a great success and was representative of the style of his later work (generally humorous). He became known especially for his writing for vaudeville-type performances, which were very popular in France during that time. He also wrote several novels and some poetry.
Bernard is remembered mainly for witticisms, particularly from his play Les Jumeaux de Brighton (The Brighton Twins).
He was interned during World War II at the Drancy deportation camp. When Gestapo agents were at his door he turned to his wife, who was crying, and said "Don´t cry, we were living in fear, but from now on we will live in hope".
Public protest of his imprisonment caused his release in 1943. He died in Paris four years later, allegedly of the results of his internment, and was buried in Passy cemetery.
The Théâtre Tristan-Bernard in Paris, which he ran under this name briefly in 1931, was later renamed that in his honour. His descendants have achieved some notoriety. His son, Raymond Bernard became an influential French filmmaker (using as scripts a number of works authored by his father) while his son Jean-Jacques Bernard published a memoir of his father in 1955 titled Mon père Tristan Bernard (My Father, Tristan Bernard). Tristan Bernard's grandson Christian Bernard is the current Imperator of the Rosicrucian organization AMORC. One of his grand-nephews is Francis Veber, a screenwriter, director and playwright whose films have been frequently remade or adapted in Hollywood.
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