JESSE BERGER   


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Plays by Jesse Berger

JESSE BERGER
Revenger's Tragedy, The
1st Produced:
New York
2005
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2007
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
freely adapted
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
15
Female
4
Parts Other:
flexible
Notes:
Original Playwright - Thomas Middleton, Cyril Tourneur or Anonymous, incorporating material from the writings of Francis Bacon, John Donne, Thomas Kyd, John Marston, William Shakespeare and John Webster
Synopsis:
This mesmerizing Jacobean thriller, written a few years after Hamlet, is a searing examination of humankind's social need for justice and our animal desire for vengeance. Vindice, the “Revenger,” sets off a chain reaction of havoc in a corrupt and decadent Venice, which exposes outrageous indulgences and government hypocrisy, and ends in a coup de théâtre massacre of epic proportions. Part black comedy, part social satire, the play is a gleefully macabre plot-twisting blender full of Shakespeare's greatest hits.
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JESSE BERGER
Witch of Edmonton, The
1st Produced:
Theatre at St. Clement's
423 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036
30 Jan 2011
Company:
Red Bull Theater
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
freely adapted
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
9
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
from play by Thomas Dekker, John Ford, and William Rowley
Synopsis:
This fantastical tragicomedy features a witch, a fool, a young man, his two wives, an angry mob, and one very devilish dog. In a new adaptation of the original Jacobean play by Thomas Dekker, John Ford, and William Rowley, this rarely-performed classic rips open the dark underbelly of a small town. As the lives of its inhabitants intersect in strange and spellbinding ways, the power of a community for both good and for evil is revealed.
- nytheatre.com
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JESSE BERGER
Women Beware Women
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
Red Bull Theater
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2009
ISBN/ASIN
978-0-8222-2367-2
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
8
Female
4
Parts Other:
flexible
Notes:
Original Playwright - Thomas Middleton
Synopsis:
Thomas Middleton's rarely performed masterwork of Jacobean juiciness, Women Beware Women, a scathing social satire of sexual politics, with a spectacular tragicomic dénouement, continues Red Bull Theater's exploration of the seldom-seen classics of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Women Beware Women speaks with a shockingly contemporary voice about sexual politics and women's rights, even as it is a playful parody of serious sexual games, ultimately showing a society imploding under the pressure of sexual manipulation, victimization, and gender inequality
- press release
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