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ROBERT SUGARMAN |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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I am a retired academic who has been writing plays since before I started teaching. My first production was at the HB Playwrights Foundation in New York City and since then I have had a number - never as many as I wished - of productions, most as Equity Showcases in New York City and Los Angeles. I have also had my plays done in colleges and at the Oldcastle Theatre Company - an Equity company in Bennington, VT. I took a few years off to write two books, CIRCUS FOR EVERYONE about professional and amateur circus training programs and PERFORMNG SHAKESPEARE: A WAY TO LEARN, both published by Mountainside Press in the US. Since returning to playwriting in 2006, I have written five full-length plays. At the moment, Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA is interested in one of them, KAUFMAN'S BARBER SHOP, and plans a reading of it when their company is assembled in the Spring and a book-in-hand presentation of it in the Fall at their Studio Festival of Plays, from which they select scripts for full production.
Plays by Robert Sugarman
Emma and the Two Jakes | ||
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Company: | Oldcastle Theatre Co. | |||||
| 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 | #125450 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | The play is based on the famous anarchist Emma Goldman's experience as a young immigrant in Rochester, New York where she married a garment worker, Jake Kershner. In my play which is set in 1887, Emma has another friend named Jake, a barber, and the high spirited trio was known as "Emma and the Two Jakes." Emma's friends include an African-American clarinetist who finds happiness in a Klezmer band. Emma's marriage was unhappy and, unlike her husband, she was horrified by the execution in Chicago of the anarchist leaders of the Haymarket meeting which turned into a riot. In the play Emma moves towards becoming a social activist which leads her to leave Rochester and Kershner. | |||||
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Hello, I Must Be Going | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bennington, VT USA | Sep 1989 | ||||
Company: | Oldcastle Theatre Co. | |||||
| 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 | #125451 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Mort and his girl friend, Kelly invite Mort's estranged parents for a party. Unresolved family tensions are revisited and ultimately Mort is able to move beyond them. | |||||
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Kaufman's Barber Shop | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Oldcastle Theatre Co. | |||||
| 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 | #125452 | |||
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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| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | 1925. The play explores the careers of three second-generation successful Jewish men who grew up together in "The Ward," the immigrant Jewish area of Syracuse, New York. It also examines the lives of a resident of the city's "Negro" neighborhood, and of an Irish immigrant. In the course of the play which has a good deal of humor, the character's lives are irrevocably changed by the pressure of race, ethnicity and class. | |||||
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Salute A Distant Man | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1969 | ||||
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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 | #136395 | |||
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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Smilin' Through | ||
| 1st Produced: | Rehearsed reading by Oldcastle Theatre Company, Benington, Vermont | - - - | ||||
Company: | Oldcastle Theatre Co. | |||||
| 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 | #125453 | |||
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 | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Smilin' Through, set during the Great Depression in a city in upstate New York, explore the pressure the economic downturn places on second generation Jews who thought they had found security in the professional class, African-Americans who were still outside the economic mainstream, and working class Christians whose lives were suddenly in jeopardy. Five actors plays a number of roles that bring this remarkable time to life. The play focuses on the desire of stressed individuals to survive and maintain their humor and dignity. | |||||
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When Johnny Came Home | ||
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Company: | Oldcastle Theatre Co. | |||||
| 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 | #125454 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | 1948. World War II is over. Syracuse University in upstate New York is expanding to accommodate returning soldiers taking advantage of the GI Bill which offers them a subsidized education. On a bare stage, with minimal props, scenes shift rapidly as the six characters become involved in each other lives and in the Progressive Party campaign of Henry Wallace for the US Presidency. | |||||
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