Greenwood Follies

Greenwood Follies & Other Old French Plays featured the world premiere of three 13th century comedies translated by John DuVal, a nationally acclaimed poet and French scholar who was awarded an NEA grant for his research and translation of Adam de la Halle’s Greenwood Follies, one of the readings in this festival. The two other plays read were The Miracle of Theophile, and an excerpt from The Play of Adam. Published as the collection “From Adam to Adam: Seven Old French Plays”, these English translations of a variety of medieval street drama sparkle with humor and poignancy and are wonderfully accessible to a modern audience. John DuVal honored the event by introducing these plays.

Posters and copies of the book “From Adam to Adam: Seven Old French Plays” (co-authored by John DuVal and Raymond Eichmann) from which the readings are culled, were available for sale by Pegasus Press.

Greenwood Follies & Other Old French Plays was underwritten by a Small Projects Grant from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities

Artistic Collaborators

Niell DuVal - Producer
Carmen C. Wong – Producer
Andrew Grosso – Director
John DuVal - Translator

Performers

Michael John Casey
Ted Feldman
John Lescault
Hugh Nees
Jennifer Mendenhall
Paul Whitthorne