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Author Jean-Claude van Itallie
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The Playwright’s Workbook
Among the subjects covered ... - Conflict and Character: The Dominant Image; Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller - Dialogue and the Spoken Word: Overheard Voices; Ibsen and Shakespeare - Creating the…
America Hurrah and Other Plays - Eat Cake & The Hunter and the Bird & The Serpent & Bag Lady & The Traveler & The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Jean-Claude van Itallie is one of the most distinguished playwrights of the American avant-garde A keen deconstruction of American popular culture, the America Hurrah triptych served notice that…
The Serpent
7 Male, 7 Female
“While most of the work is choreographed movement, pantomime, human sounds and music made by bells, horns, whistles, tambourines and other hand-held instruments, there is an accompanying text…
Mystery Play
5 Male, 3 Female
The action is set in the chic living room of a U.S. Senator, during a cocktail party Present are the Senator, his wife, his schizophrenic bisexual son (played by two actors), a beautiful young woman who…
A Fable
4 Male, 4 Female
The action begins, once upon a time, in the village of People Who Fish in the Lake, where everyone longs nostalgically for the Golden Time, when happiness and harmony reigned supreme In quest of what has…
America Hurrah - Interview & TV & Motel - DPS ACTING EDITION
4 Male, 4 Female
Interview ~ “Four masked, smiling interviewers interview a scrubwoman, a house painter, a banker and a lady’s maid. It is commonplace and familiar enough, except that suddenly,…
Five Short Plays - Almost Like Being & I’m Really Here & The Hunter and the Bird & War & Where is de Queen?
4 Male, 7 Female
Almost Like Being ~ A delightfully acerbic spoof of the unreal world of show business, and the fradulent sentiment from which it is contrived Successfully produced on the National Educational…
Master and Margarita
Large Mixed Cast Male, 2 Female
Also known as The Devil Comes to Moscow The devil, his acrobatic cat and other colorful cronies come to Stalin’s Moscow to wreak hilarious surreal havoc on the lives of writers, critics and bureaucratniks…
Seven Short and Very Short Plays - Eat Cake & Harold & Take a Deep Breath & Photographs: Mary and Howard & Thoughts on the Instant of Greeting a Friend on the Street & The Girl and the Soldier & Rosary
Large Mixed Cast Male, 1 Female
Eat Cake ~ A biting satire in which a frowzy housewife, absorbed in her TV is visited by an eccentric rapist — whose demands are somewhat different from what might be anticipated Harold…
Early Warnings - Sunset Freeway & Final Orders
1 Male, 1 Female
In Sunset Freeway, a young actress on her way to an audition is trapped in traffic. Nibbling away at a generous supply of snacks, she primps and chatters on about her life and career hopes, oblivious to…
Bag Lady
0 Male, 1 Female
The play takes place on the streets of New York, where this Bag Lady calls home. On this day, she goes about her business, stuffing her shopping bags with assorted oddments Suddenly assailed by voices…
