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JOVANKA BACH (1937 - 2006) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: B.K. Nelson, Inc. (760) 778 8800 |
Jovanka Bach has written 10 plays that have successfully been produced in Los Angeles and N.Y. Her most recent play Chekhov and Maria is now an award winning motion picture that just aired on Super Channel Canada and is now being broadcast on PBS TV and Russian TV. She has also written three novels. A Little Death will soon be published.
Plays by Jovanka Bach
Chekhov and Maria | ||
| 1st Produced: | Odyssey, L.A. | 2005 | ||||
Company: | John Stark Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55381 | |||
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Genre: | drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Anton Chekhov is suffering from a terminal case of T.B., and trying to complete his last play The Cherry Orchard. His sister Maria is constantly at his side until she discovers that her brother Anton has secretly married the infamous Moscow Art Theatre actress Olga Knipper. There is a confrontation which is resolved and Chekhov completes his play and leaves for Moscow. A short time later he dies and bequeaths all his literary works to his sister Maria. | |||||
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Evening with Stephen Leacock, An | ||
| 1st Produced: | Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver | 1972 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124498 | |||
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Notes: | written by John Stark with contributions from Jovanka Bach | |||||
Synopsis: | This presentation features Stark as the disheveled McGill University professor - a Leacock trademark, and draws upon Leacock's vast body of work which consists of over forty volumes of humor and essays. Leacock's style was much like Mark Twains'. One of his most famous sketches, "My financial career" was first published in LIFE magazine in 1896. The story focuses on the plight of a bashful young man's first brush with the intimidating world of high finance. It is typical Leacock: the little man, Chaplinesque in character; always at odds with the machinations of modern society; never quite fitting in anywhere; confused, perplexed, flustered, and someone that everyone can identify with. By the 1920, Leacock had become the most widely read humorist in the English speaking language. | |||||
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Family Glembay, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Olympic Arts Festival, Los Angeles Olympics | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124499 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
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Notes: | adaptec from the work of Miroslav Krleza, a Yugoslavian Nobel Prize nominee | |||||
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Marko The Prince | ||
| 1st Produced: | Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles | Jul 2001 | ||||
Company: | Immigrants' Theatre Project | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #85704 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | third play of A Balkan Trilogy. The play was also given a highly successful off-Broadway staging by the Immigrant's Theatre Project and John Stark at the Barrow Group Theatre in July of 200 | |||||
Synopsis: | More investigations take place in Yugoslavia to trace the origins of the family that were sympathetic to the Germans and others that were at odds with them. | |||||
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Matter Of The Heart, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124496 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | O'Neill semi-finalist | |||||
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Mercy Warren's Tea | ||
| 1st Produced: | Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles | 27 Nov | ||||
Company: | John Stark Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104183 | |||
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Notes: | won an American Radio Theatre award for 'best play' and was broadcast on public radio. | |||||
Synopsis: | Founding Mother, Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814), America's first woman playwright and historian, secretly authored anti- British plays that sparked Revolutionary sentiment . Mercy Warren gives a tea party welcoming important guests - including Abigail Adams and Peggy Arnold. Tensions mounts as the play unfolds and we learn more about our leading political figures of the time. . .and secrets are revealed. | |||||
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Name Day | ||
| 1st Produced: | Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles | 1995 | ||||
Company: | Immigrants' Theatre Project | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70245 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | nominated for the PEN Center West Drama Award. The play is the first in a trilogy about Serbian American and Serbian cultural experiences, and the Balkan crisis. Name Day's off-Broadway opening at the Barrow Group Theatre, produced and directed by Marcy Arlin of the Immigrant's Theatre Project, was greeted with unanimous acclaim by audiences and critics alike | |||||
Synopsis: | This play was inspired by a W.W.11 incident in Yugoslavia, when the Germans were attacking the country. Two women were hiding in a barn with their babies. One of women smothered her child so the crying would not be detected by the Germans. The other mother let her baby cry out and when they were discovered by the Germans she became a traitor and joined the Germans. Years later the two mothers meet again in Glendale Ca. The son and daughter of the two mothers have become engaged but the the marriage is halted because of the World War 11 incident. | |||||
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Nightsong for the Boatman | ||
| 1st Produced: | TBG Arts Complex | 13 Jan 2011 | ||||
Company: | John Stark Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #123386 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Nightsong for the Boatman centers on aging, alcoholic, washed-up poet Harry Appleman. When he attempts suicide by jumping off a bridge, Harry is stopped by a sardonic boatman. The boatman wants Harry to give his life to the devilunless Harry wins a round of dice. After Harry loses, he must cross the River Styx or find a willing participant to go in his place. Director John Stark was rummaging through the belongings of his deceased wife, playwright Jovanka Bach, when he uncovered a never before seen copy ofNightsong For The Boatman, which she had written more than twenty years ago and never shown him. | |||||
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O'Neill's Ghosts | ||
| 1st Produced: | Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104184 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | A sequel to "A Long Day's Journey Into Night" | |||||
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Sylvie | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124497 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | O'Neill semi-finalist | |||||
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Thousand Souls, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles | Apr 1999 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104185 | |||
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Notes: | second play of A Balkan Trilogy | |||||
Synopsis: | This is the second play in the trilogy in which the actual events that took place in Yugoslavia are being investigated by the son of one of the mothers. | |||||
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