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JAN HARTMAN (1938 - 2006) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency |
Jan Hartman was born in Stockholm, and became a naturalised U.S. citizen. He also retained his father's German citizenship a privilege granted to individuals, like his father, who were deprived of their citizenship because of the Nuremberg race laws.
Plays by Jan Hartman
Every Year At The Carnival | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15776 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Set at Carnival time in a Latin American country, unnamed, but resembling Brazil. A German refugee, Hans-Erik Franck, decides to attend the celebration that takes place annually in the home of his employer, Maribar. The people at the party have been curious for years about Hans-Erik's association with Nazi Germany. Tonight they plan to find out exactly what his association with the Third Reich was. As they find out more about Hans-Erik, they become more and more sadistic toward him, until ultimately they put him on trial, in an informal and improvised way. In mock justice they pretend to sentence him to death. Hans-Erik, who in the course of the evening has come to know the party-goers well, sees that in punishing him they are duplicating the slide into corruption that he experienced as a Nazi. He asks for a moment alone. In order to spare the masqueraders the same crimes of betrayal and murder he committed, Hans-Erik hangs himself. When the party-goers discover the corpse, they are horrified. It is a sad legend that every year on the morning after Carnival a corpse is found on the beach. Now they know the origins of this corpse. The play ends as the masqueraders, in mask and costume, bear the corpse of Hans-Erik to the beach, to be discovered according to custom, when the sun rises. | |||||
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Flatboatman | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15777 | |||
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Genre: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1 boy, plus many bits for men and women | |||||
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Synopsis: | The action begins as the young Abe Lincoln arrives in New Salem, Illinois, having decided to leave his life on the river to clerk in the general store. Abe's physical strength and humorous stories soon impress the townspeople, and he becomes a hero when he thrashes the local bullies. Then romance blossoms when he meets the lovely Anne Rutledge, and his political career begins when the town leaders persuade him to run for the state legislature. But Anne sickens and dies, and Abe's rival wins the election, and a saddened Lincoln turns back to his books and the arduous task of teaching himself the law. In his second try as a candidate, however, Abe wins the day, and as the play ends he is carried off on the shoulders of his supporters, ready to depart for Springfield and the memorable, fateful years which the future would bring. | |||||
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Fragments Of A Last Judgement | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1967 | |||||
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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 | #15778 | |||
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Samuel Hoopes Reading From His Own Works | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15779 | |||
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: | drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | moving, perceptive, sometimes amusing, sometimes bizarre monologue in which an aging writer reads from the singular works which are his life and his epitaph | |||||
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