ERWIN H LERNER   (1935 - )

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ERWIN H LERNER

Case of Treason, A

1st Produced:

reading by New Federal Theatre

1983

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

-

doollee no

#62217

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

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Female

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Parts other:

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Notes:

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Synopsis:

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ERWIN H LERNER

Dilemma

1st Produced:

workshop presentation Troupe Repertory Theatre

1967

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

-

doollee no

#62220

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Genre:

Play One Act

Parts:

Male

3

Female

1

Parts other:

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Notes:

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Synopsis:

From the Village Voice June 22, 1967 review by Michael Smith: ""Dilemma presents a homey scene. Wife is at typewriter composing poetry; psychiatrist Husband is reading his papers. Both are epert at congugal torment. Richard, a freshly retired professional killer, who is an acquaintance, arrives for a surprise visit. Wife seductively protests the distraction. Husband can't get far in conversation with Richard who's a stupe. All are tense when whe a second vistor drops in, an idealistic Boy offering love to this trio bent on getting him out so they can continue their merciless love playl The next step is a three-way murder threat& the play . . . . is funny and neatly disconcerting. . . . . The Boy is the big jolt, apparently a genuine if not yet tribalized love person and possible psycopath, he keeps not turning into a parody of what he stands for . . .I mean to say that I like it."

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ERWIN H LERNER

Goodbye and Good Luck

1st Produced:

reading by New Federal Theatre

1991

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#62216

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

n/a

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ERWIN H LERNER

Happy New Year, Love

1st Produced:

workshop presentation, Cooper Square Arts Theatre

1968

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Coalition of Publishers for Employment; limited hard cover edition, 1977

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#62218

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Genre:

Play One Act

Parts:

Male

3

Female

1

Parts other:

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Notes:

-

Synopsis:

From Show Business, April 13, 1968, review by Arnold Kantrowitz: a powerful one-act brew of laughter and ugliness. . . Although the play needs no external support, it opens with thematic monologues by a nameless man . . . who manages to draw us out of our shell . . . and then to tuck us deftly back into it when the playwright is through with us.. . . The scene is played on the verge of a New Year's Eve party. . . . as Elliot Elliot and . . . Delicious try to make George & Martha . . . look like Dagwood and Blondie--and they don't do a bad job of it, as they explore the murky recesses of each other's souls . . . The bits of action recur so frequently that they lose their heavy-handedness and we become part of the not-so-merry-go-round. A whimsical watch shatters any sense of linear time . . . We laugh and choke on our laughter alternately, but under the well-sustained sting of the dialogue, we become aware of the love beneath the viciousness . . . Lerner's potent play . . . is well worth seeing.

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ERWIN H LERNER

Katz' Poem

1st Produced:

workshop presentation at Playbox Studio

1967

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#62219

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Genre:

Play One Act

Parts:

Male

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Female

-

Parts other:

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Notes:

-

Synopsis:

From Columbia Summer Spectator, August 10, 1967, review by Jerry L. Avorn. ". . . [A] professionally-executed delight, skillfully written by Erwin Lerner . . .Randolph Fagg goes back and forth between being and not being one, his equilibrium sporadically shifted this way and that by a collection including a bad Jewish poet, and advertising executive and his sycophantic tool, and a friendly nymph-whore. . . .We first find Faggg (now straight) in exstasy, confinced that he has just invented the light bulb. Screaming, he calls his upstairs neighbor, Isadore Katz . . . to show him the amazing discovery. . . .Katz . . . shouts 'Schmuck!' . . .and begins dumping all over Fagg, explaining that light bulbs have been around for awhile. . . .Katz recommends a career in hairdressing. Before dying of a heart attack on poor Fagg's doorstep, Katz spits forth some of his poetry, including . . .'To be or not to be, det is de kveschun! Katz exults. Fagg sneers. 'Nyeehhh! That's not new . . .A friend of mine wrote it in high school!' . . . Soon the head of a Madison Avenue advertising agency . . . is jockeying to buy up the rights to Katz' poetry. "the Chief" primes an eager underling, Mervon Beef . . . to handle the affair and win the account. . . . It turns out that Beef is Fagg's cousin. Meanwhile . . .Katz' death has transformed Fagg into a homosexual (and a hairdresser). . . . [T]he Chief dangles before them a lovely prostitute . . .fortuitiously named Betty Botty. 'Friends call her Beddy Body.' . . . One feels a slight sense of guilt at laughing . . .Unless, of course, the play was conceived by and aimed at people who realize that any abnormality associated with homosexuality is a hangup of society . . .in which case we are laughing at society.".

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ERWIN H LERNER

Tea

1st Produced:

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1975

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

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doollee no

#43304

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Genre:

2 act Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

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Female

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Parts other:

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Notes:

nominated New Script With Merit, Theatre Communications Group

Synopsis:

n/a

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