Duodrama

A Duodrama (also Duodram or two- character play ) is a play for two actors or singers in which the spoken voice is used together with an accompanying voice for increased dramatic effect. The Duodrama was especially popular in the late 18th and the early 19th century.

The most famous work in the field of opera are Ariadne auf Naxos (1775 ) and Medea by Georg Benda. Mozart admired Benda's works and similar techniques used in Zaide (1780 ) and Thamos, King of Egypt ( c. 1773-1780 ). He considered himself to write a Duodrama named Semiramis. Beethoven's Fidelio (1805-1814) and Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz (1821 ) include Duodramen.

Two People Pieces (selection)

• Of authors: Papa, Charly said ...
• Herbert Achternbusch: Ella
• Edward Albee: The Zoo Story
• Lilly Axster: Remote Controlled
• Jeff Baron: Visiting Mr Green
• Igor Bauersima: norway.today (2000)
• Konrad Bayer: the talented audience
• Konrad Bayer: the boxer
• Konrad Bayer: idiot
• Samuel Beckett: fragment I
• Samuel Beckett: fragment II
• Samuel Beckett: Ohio Impromptu
• Samuel Beckett: Kicks
• Beethoven: Fidelio ( Duodrama in the play) ( 1805-1814 )
• Georg Benda: Ariadne auf Naxos ( 1775)
• Georg Benda: Medea
• Steven Berkoff: Decadence
• Thomas Bernhard: The German lunch
• Thomas Bernhard: Simply complicated
• Thomas Bernhard: Appearances can be deceptive
• Maja Beutler: Lady Macbeth 's hands no longer washes
• Ad de Bont: Mirad, a boy from Bosnia I / II
• Ad de Bont: The parrot jacket
• Ad de Bont: clouds have trouble pulling
• Hermann Broch: The story of the maid Zerlina
• Joseph Brodsky: Marble
• Jason Robert Brown: The last five years ( The Last Five Years )
• Heiko Buhr: Waste
• Barry Creyton: double fault ( Original title: Double Act )
• Keren Cytter: Show Real Drama
• Christa and Agilo Dangl: Because happiness is always there
• Thea Dorn: Marleni (2000)
• Ernst -Jürgen Dreyer: The Double
• Marguerite Duras: Savannah Bay
• Marguerite Duras: Talk in the Park
• Marguerite Duras: La Musica
• Marguerite Duras: La Musica Two
• Charles Dyer: Under the stairs (orig. Staircase )
• Helmut Eisendle: A Violation Study
• Helmut Eisendle: billiards or the victim at the green table
• Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Diderot and the dark egg
• Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Voltaire's nephew
• Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Without us. A skull and call
• Hans Eppendorf, Hubert Fichte: The Ledermann speaks with Hubert Fichte
• Jenny Erpenbeck: Cats have nine lives
• Miguel Romero Esteo: paso doble
• Beat Fäh: Max
• Dieter Forte: The Artist in the moment of his crash
• Jon Fosse: Winter
• Gabriel Gbadamosi: Hotel Orpheu
• Peter Greiner: Lady Liljas Hauer (1978 )
• Wilfrid Grote: Lyssi
• Josef Guggenmos: Man Knorre and the burglar. Clowning about money in an act
• Peter Handke: The trustee wants to be guardian
• Peter Handke: self-incrimination
• David Hare: The Breath of Life ( 2002)
• Peter Hathazy: No fire without carbon
• Heinrich Henkel: Iron wanker
• Heinrich Henkel: Olaf and Albert
• Barrie Hesketh: Dear Mr. Shaw
• Hey Richard: Kelsterbachs favorites
• Hey Richard: Cordless
• Ulrich Hub: Imago
• Lutz Hübner: dropouts
• Lutz Hübner: The heart of a boxer
• Josee Hussaarts: Icarus! The sky is blue and the sea
• David Ives: Venus in Furs
• Jack Jacquine: The cage
• Gert Jonke: At that time in front of Graz
• Bente Jonker: Zabibi and Muzalifa
• Markus Kaegi: Oh & Och
• Oliver Karbus: Socrates or the end of Truth (2007)
• Oliver Karbus: Vincent and Paul ( 2009)
• Rolf Kemnitzer: The pace- maker
• Jerome Kilty: Beloved Liar (Original Title: Dear Liar )
• Bernard -Marie Koltès: In the solitude of cotton fields
• Bernard -Marie Koltès: Tabataba
• Franz Xaver Kroetz: Who goes through the leaves (Second Revision of men's business, originally a radio play )
• Fitzgerald Kusz: Feig
• Fitzgerald Kusz: Burning Love
• Fitzgerald Kusz: Highest Railway
• Fitzgerald Kusz: Let It Be
• Fitzgerald Kusz: Sky of Love
• Fitzgerald Kusz: Happy
• Arkady Leokum: Friends
• Börje Lindström: Lonely
• Dea Loher: light
• Suzanne van Lohuizen: Dossier: Ronald Akkerman
• Suzanne van Lohuizen: Who has seen my little boy?
• Suzanne van Lohuizen: The horse in the night
• Lotta Lotass: The Collector
• Kristina Lugn: The old girl
• Kristina Lugn: Aunt Floral
• Kristina Lugn: Nocturnal orientation
• Mayröcker: Nada. nothing
• Henning Mankell: time in the dark
• Jon Marans: Old Wicked Songs
• Jagoda Marinic: therapy. A game
• Michael McClure: The Beard
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Semiramis ( lost)
• Libuse Monikova: Aral
• Heiner Müller: Quartet
• Adolf Muschg: Friedrich and Henriette or the noses of the classical
• Bernd Neunzling: Small sausages (2001)
• Alban Nikolai: Autumn Not Sirius
• Frieder Nögge: Pastor and Holderle
• Marsha Norman: Night, Mother (1983 )
• Jacques Offenbach, Michael Quast, Rainer Dachselt: Bluebeard
• Jeroen Olyslaegers: Deep in the hole and the pig studied with
• Albert Osterhaus Maier: bench
• Albert Osterhaus Maier: Heart Core Theatre
• Albert Osterhaus Maier: Between two fires
• François Ozon: views of the sea
• Sybille Pearson: Sally and Marsha (1982 )
• Andreas Pflüger: Mr. Gold
• Robert Pinget: Abel and Bela
• Pascale Platel: Imagine
• Ulrich Plenzdorf: liberty
• Manuel Puig: Kiss of the Spider Woman
• Manuel Puig: The mystery of the Roses
• Ilma Rakusa: Jim
• Marie Redonnet: Tir & Lir
• Marie Redonnet: Moby Diq
• Gerlint Rein Hagen: Joint Venture
• Jules Renard: The mistress
• Jules Renard: The desire to separate
• Jules Renard: The daily bread
• Luise Rist: June July August
• Éric Rohmer: The Trio in E flat major (Le trio en mi - bémol ) ( 1987)
• Patrick Roth: Paul. Human history in a Vigil
• Gerhard Ruhm: theater texts
• Royce Ryton: To you or to me?
• James Saunders ( writer ): A Man's Best Friend
• Pierre Sauvil: Once the sun for two
• Ulrike Screen: Waiting for Clodot
• Ulrike Screen: Blöff
• Ivana Sajko: ribs / walls
• Ivana Sajko: 4 feet dry
• Helma Sanders- Brahms: Marlene and Jo
• Peter Sattmann: The Archbishop is here
• Einar Schleef: The Invitation
• Hansjörg Schneider: Rondo for Lili
• Susanne Schneider: Sarajevo, good bye
• Bernhard Setzwein: 3165 - monologue of a hangman (2008)
• George Bernard Shaw: Rural Advertising
• Sam Shepard: Fool for Love
• Arne Sierens: Drummer
• Arne Sierens: Mouchette
• Susan Sontag: Baby
• Kerstin Specht: Moon on the back
• Kerstin Specht: The Queen of Hearts
• Gertrude Stein: Again, the text another
• Cecil Stevens: Do you understand Julia?
• Botho Strauss: The Guide
• August Strindberg: The Stronger
• Antonio Tabucchi: Missed dialogues
• Antonio Tabucchi: Mr. Pirandello is wanted on the phone
• Antonio Tabucchi: Time is running out
• Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: Swan Song
• Anton Pavlovich Chekhov tragedy Reluctant
• Lot Vekemans Gift
• Heleen Verburg: Body
• Aleksandr Vvedenskij: Kupriyanov and Nataša
• Michał Walczak: Sandbox (2003)
• Martin Walser: The Battle Room
• Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz ( Duodrama in the play) (1821 )
• George Whetstone: Promos and Cassandra ( 1578)
• Urs Widmer: Nepal
• Tennessee Williams: The outcry or two-person piece
• Robert Wolf: The Entropist
• Robert Wolf: Wake up, my angel
• Robert Wolf: Magenta
• Karst Woudstra: After lunch,
• Lauri Wylie: Dinner for One ( in the arrangement for two persons)
• Ingeborg of Zadow: I and Thou
• Ingeborg of Zadow: Pompinien
• Feridun Zaimoglu / Günter Laces: Yes. Do it. Now. (2003)