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MISHA SHULMAN |
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Misha Shulman was Commander in Charge of Education in the Communications Unit of Lebanon while serving in the Israeli Defense Forces from 1996 to 1999.
Plays by Misha Shulman
Apricots | ||
| 1st Produced: | Midway Rock Club, New York | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Paper Beats Rock | |||||
| 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 | #84592 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
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Synopsis: | Everything you wanted to know about the Middle East - but were afraid to ask. . . | |||||
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Brunch At The Luthers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009 >>> | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #85701 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | The play gives us a day in the lives of an absurd middle-aged couple. Luther (it may be his last name, or his first) is married (or lives with) a nervous woman named Ruth. They are preparing for a ceremonious brunch. A famous chef arrives bearing duck-not to eat, but the wooden decoy, as does a state congressman, a woman named Mansfield, who brings a bronze one. They struggle stubbornly over the details of the meal and await apprehensively the arrival of Harlot Sierra O'toul, a neice of Mansfield. The text is a highly structured, yet excruciating, series of malaprops caused by the characters continually interrupting each other, somewhat like partially deaf people acting Abbott & Costello's 'Who's On First'. They comedically elongate such ordinary matters as whether to answer the door, how many hot cocoas to make, whether to sit on the carpet, and whether Mansfield's niece is actually coming. The niece (or nephew, we are never quite sure which) is said to be an erotic dancer. This causes a buildup of great excitement. She is ultimately revealed to be entirely normal, however her banality doesn't dissuade Luther from his private fantasy of her. Minutiae of the plot, down to the number of spoons at the table or the sex of the dancer, require intricate detective work and intense cogitation to establish even small truths. Words fail, to be replaced by the articulate substitute of quacking. A culminating event of great significance, which these small things should be building up to to, never comes. | |||||
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Deathscape | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater for the New City | 10 Nov 2011 | ||||
Company: | Theater for the New City | |||||
| 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 | #133918 | |||
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Genre: | piece 70 min | |||||
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Synopsis: | Deathscape by Misha Shulman is a multi-media, puppet-centered, Kafka-meets-Cocteau-in-A-Yellow-Submarine play about dreams where life changes and fears meet. It is inspired by Shulman's own dreams, Jungian imagery and the biblical story of Jacob. Performed by two actors and four puppeteers, the play will include a combination of Indonesian-style shadow work, live overhead projector artwork and three-dimensional puppets. | |||||
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Desert Sunrise | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009 >>> | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #51044 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Desert Sunrise tells a story about a chance encounter between an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian man. Taking refuge in a desert wadi, the two men are initially antagonistic, but each is surprisingly open to the others views. Just when they seem to have overcome their distrust for each other, they are joined by the Palestinian man's beloved, who embodies an odd, impermeable shell of ideology and radical zeal that neither of the men can penetrate. As the three reach into their own pasts, they not only find similarities, but also begin to understand the psychological and social fabric behind their political beliefs. Over the course of one memorable night the process of mutual understanding and forgiveness begins, halts, gets rejected, but is ultimately embraced by the pained characters. Desert Sunrise uses English, Hebrew and Arabic dialogue between the three characters and is interspersed with choral odes, performed by onstage musicians and adapted from various translations of Aeschylus' Agamemnon. At times, the characters quote Osama Bin Laden, an Israeli mother who lost her son to the conflict, Ariel Sharon, Hamas leaders, Israeli and Palestinian politicians, peace activists, and Palestinian cave dwellers. It also employs Indonesian shadow techniques that are shared with Egyptian puppetry. The play is set in the desert hills south of Hebron, where several thousand Palestinian shepherds and farmers have been living in natural caves since the early 19th century. For the past two decades the cave-dwellers have been terribly oppressed by both the Israeli Army and settlers in an attempt to force them out of the land and open it for take over by fundamentalist Jewish settlers. Over 80% of the caves have been demolished, wells stuffed with rocks, olive groves stolen and cattle poisoned, leaving the cave-dwellers with close to nothing to live on. Despite this unbearable injustice the cave-dwellers have remained non-violent, resisting the loud voices in Palestinian society to take arms against the Israelis. The region is birthplace of the Taayush peace movement (the word means living together in Arabic), a group that will provide support for this production. | |||||
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Faith | ||
| 1st Produced: | Drilling Company Theatre, 107 West 82nd Street, 1A, New York, NY 10024 >>> | 06 May 2010 | ||||
Company: | TheDrillingCompaNY | |||||
| 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 | #114313 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
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Synopsis: | Declaring "We all believe in something. . .don't we?," The Drilling Company has set a short play project on the subject of faith. The nine short plays cover a range of ideas and writing styles. The program includes plays by Brian Dykstra, Kate McCamy, Richard Mover, C. Denby Swanson, Scott Baker, and Stephen Bittrich, all regular contributors to past Drilling Company projects, plus newcomers Jennifer Fawcett, Misha Shulman, and Christine Whitley. | |||||
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Fake History of George the Last, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009 >>> | 21 Jan 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #108987 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | The Fake History of George the Last metaphorically attacks the notion of the inevitability of violence throughout generations in an absurdist style that incorporates iconic imagery from the Book of Ecclesiastes. In the play, set in a futuristic English-speaking country, there are four generations of men named George-all clones-who are predestined to go through the same family rituals and rites of passage, culminating in murder. The idea is to dramatize how violent beliefs and animosities seem inevitable and they are inherited in defiance of the possibility of individual choice. | |||||
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Fist, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009 >>> | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #51045 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Vermillionaire | ||
| 1st Produced: | Midway Rock Club, New York | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Paper Beats Rock | |||||
| 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 | #84593 | |||
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Synopsis: | The life of painter Oscar Bluemner | |||||
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