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ABI BASCH |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Abi Basch's plays include Voices Underwater, fEaR oF a FuHrEr, Lucy Dies in Fives, and Preservation (A Bird Mutation). She's received two Jerome Fellowships from the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, three Austin Critics Table Award nominations including for Best New Play, Best of Fest in Fronterafest, a Fulbright Scholarship to research physical collaborative theater methods in Germany, and an Alexander von Humboldt German Chancellor Scholarship to write and direct a performance installation with principal dancers from the Hamburg and Dresden Ballets at a Hamburg war memorial. She's a member of German-American collaboratively-based physical theater company kInDeRdEuTsCh pRoJeKtS, and of Austin Scriptworks.
Plays by Abi Basch
fEaR oF a FuHrEr | ||
| 1st Produced: | Refraction Arts Project (Austin, TX) | 2005 | ||||
Company: | with kInDeRdEuTsCh pRoJeKtS (Hildesheim, Germany) | |||||
| 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 | #61427 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1 | |||||
Notes: | Music by Adam Sultan and Jon Nelson. Film by Thuy-Van Vu | |||||
Synopsis: | Put on a show for your enemy. Watch your lover betray, ants cry, stars fall from the sky, a small doll creak through the wreckage and the coin monkey clap. A collaboratively generated exploration of puppetry, film, movement, and sound to approach the impossible impulses of violence and devotion. | |||||
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Lucy Dies in Fives | ||
| 1st Produced: | FronteraFest at Hyde Park Theatre | 2004 | ||||
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 | #61429 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | 15 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Lucy dies fives times five different ways and each time and against her will her brain keeps going and going can't make it stop because brain activity that is after the body dies brain activity continues for several minutes five maybe. | |||||
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Preservation (A Bird Mutation) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theaterhaus Hildesheim | 2006 | ||||
Company: | with kInDeRdEuTsCh pRoJeKtS (Hildesheim, Germany) | |||||
| 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 | #61428 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Music by Paula Matthusen and Julia Kastner. Translation into German available. Translated by: Thorsten Bihegue, Stefanie Fiedler, and Molly Shaiken | |||||
Synopsis: | Theo and Pearl are the happy couple, daily toasting their daily bread in a pristine 21st century living-room. When Pearl's long-lost now-found left-for-dead sister Gams falls into their lives unexpectedly, she disrupts their carefully-constructed world, unearthing a war-torn past, and memories they'd rather keep buried beneath ash. | |||||
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Voices Underwater | ||
| 1st Produced: | Synchronicity Performance Group (Atlanta), Serendipity Theatre (Chicago)" and "Gas & Electric Arts (Philadelphia) | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Salvage Vanguard Theater, Austin, TX | |||||
| 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 | #61426 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A poetic, time-and-space bending exploration of race and desire, set in the attic of an abandoned plantation house during a night of never-ending rain | |||||
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