ELLEN POBER RITTBERG
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Ellen Pober Rittberg
Hostage Crisis |
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| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | Half way or more around the world (if one lives in the U.S. that is,) a female journalist is in a cell with a silent male guard. It appears to be her last night on earth.She attempts to make a connection and to understand her life. | |||||
Just a Quiet Evening At Home, Six Friends |
| 1st Produced: | Theatervisions (staged reading) | 1984 | ||||
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| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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| Notes: | The main female character should have a hectic energy. The main male character should be over the top. And no one should look alike (a personal quirk on my part) | |||||
| Synopsis: | Three couples, one male who is all bluff and bluster, his wife who is a conceptual artist and their friends, two couples who are restless and ripe for manipulation and relationship-intrigue battle and play musical rooms and shifting loyalties. Fun and games-not! | |||||
Sabbath Elevator |
| 1st Produced: | Jewish Arts Festival, Commack , New York | 1987 | ||||
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| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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| Notes: | One of the female characters can be as young as fifteen, the other female can be in her twenties or thirties. As the older female character is supposed to be wheelchai- bound, the possibility of using a person with a mobility impairment exists and is encouraged. The male character can be in his twenties or thirties. | |||||
| Synopsis: | A man and a women are in an elevator in an Orthodox Jewish hotel on the Sabbath.The elevator works automatically, without the aid of buttons. When a third person enters what appears to be a life-or death situation, all three are forced to deal with the issue of truth and violence. Rashoman with a Jewish twist that is not specifically Jewish at all. | |||||
Sci Fi |
| 1st Produced: | Triangle Theater, Long Island University | 1989 | ||||
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| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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| Notes: | the ages of the characters can be anywhere from twenty to late thirties. | |||||
| Synopsis: | In a future society where the two classes are separated and speak to each other under pain of death, Rick, a worker, makes a connection with Shana, a breeder-wife to the ruling class and which has the possibility of changing the future and/or ending their lives What happens when the past is almost completely obliterated and a person doesn't know it? Can love and a sense of justice prevail? | |||||