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EMILIE BECK |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Critics have called her work "transformative." Beck mosaics language, music, and movement, addressing challenging, topical subjects in uniquely theatrical terms. Number of People, about a Holocaust survivor battling Alzheimers, Hartford Stage's 2007 Brand:NEW Festival centerpiece, was directed by Beck for the Piven Theater Workshop's 2010 season; a national tour starring Ed Asner is planned for 2010-11 season. In her critically acclaimed production of And Let the Skies Fall, Beck wrote and directed an ideological clash between Mother Teresa, Christopher Hitchens and Madeline Paget. In Beck's latest play, Invasion of A Sovereign Body, a celebrated chef confronts Parkinson's disease as an apparition and the affect of "his" progression on her family over two Thanksgivings. Accolades as a director of other playwrights' work include the post-Katrina drama Because They Have No Words. Ms. Beck recieved the LA Weekly award in 2009 for Best Direction and Best Production for Block Nine.
Plays by Emilie Beck
And Let the Skies Fall | ||
| 1st Produced: | El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood | Apr 2003 | ||||
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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 | #115660 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 7 | ||
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Synopsis: | An intersection of three stories explores Western versus Eastern approaches to illness, healing and death. | |||||
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Number Of People | ||
| 1st Produced: | Piven Theatre, Evanston, Illinois | 08 Mar 2010 | ||||
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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 | #112007 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A Holocaust survivor now has to face ageing and Alzheimer's | |||||
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Sovereign Body | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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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 | #115661 | |||
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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| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | A woman is forced to surrender her identity and reconstruct her relationship to the world when an unexpected guest arrives for Thanksgiving dinner. | |||||
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