Timepiece (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781506091259)

Charles Duncombe is the author of the City Garage texts Atrocities (2000), Cinema Stories: Ceremonies of Unendurable Bondage (2002), Oedipustext/LA (2003) Patriot Act: A Reality Show (2004), and Caged (2014). 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, The School For Wives, and Sganarelle, as well as Beaumarchais's The Marriage of Figaro. 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. He is also the author of the short story collection Ceremonies of Unendurable Bondage and Other Stories. His most recent work, Caged, premiered at City Garage in 2013. He lives in Los Angeles.