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SANDRA FENICHEL ASHER |
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Plays by Sandra Fenichel Asher |
Across the Plains: The Journey of the Palace Wagon Family | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #38881 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | Fxtras if desired, doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on actual letters, diaries, magazine and newspaper articles of the period, this play follows young Virginia Reed and her family on their journey from Illinois to California as part of a wagon train that became known as the "Martyr Pioneers." Folk songs combine with dramatic action to recreate moments both typical of the 19th-century's vast migration and unique to the courageous struggle of members of the Donner Party, who were trapped by snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains during the ferocious winter of 1846-47. Commissioned by the Coterie Theater, Across the Plains was selected for the Kennedy Center's New Visions/New Voices program and received the American Alliance for Theatre and Education's Playreading Project National Award. In the word of seventh-graders who attended the Coterie's performances: "I would recommend this play to anyone." "There was not a bored person in the whole theatre." "I was with you on the long journey to California." "It was truly the best play I have ever seen." Minimal sets. | |||||
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David's Star | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Today I Am" published by Dramatic Publishing Company | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133497 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Originally performed with four other short plays under the overall title: "Today I Am: Five Short Plays About Growing Up Jewish" | |||||
Synopsis: | Cara takes a stand when her boss's anti-Semitism threatens a friend | |||||
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Everything Is Not Enough | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74515 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Based on the novel "Everything Is Not Enough" by Sandra Fenichel Asher | |||||
Synopsis: | Michael's father has his life all mapped out. From holidays to which college he should attend and then a job in the family firm. But it is not what Michael wants. | |||||
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Frank And Stein | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Today I Am" published by Dramatic Publishing Company | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133498 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 teenage boy; 1 girl | |||||
Notes: | Originally performed with four other short plays under the overall title: "Today I Am: Five Short Plays About Growing Up Jewish" | |||||
Synopsis: | Ben Stein receives a diary as a Bar Mitzvah present. He writes about the agonies and ecstasies of his big day | |||||
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Freddy The King Of Detectives | ||
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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 | #74516 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Based on the book "Freddy The Detective" by Walter R Brooks | |||||
Synopsis: | Freddy the Pig has been reading Sherlock Holmes stories so when Everett's toy train is stolen he is the one to solve the case. | |||||
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Heart Of Buchanan, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Today I Am" published by Dramatic Publishing Company | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133499 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 4 girls | |||||
Notes: | Originally performed with four other short plays under the overall title: "Today I Am: Five Short Plays About Growing Up Jewish" | |||||
Synopsis: | Sarah's family are in the military and they move often. Sarah has found a way of making friends in a new town is to join a choir | |||||
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I Will Sing Life | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0871299710 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98633 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Joan of Ark | ||
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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 | #74517 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The future. The ARK System has been in charge of Earth for a hundred years bringing peace and plenty but at the cost of people's freedom. Joan starts receiving messages on her transcommunicator from someone called Michael. | |||||
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Little Old Ladies In Tennis Shoes | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #100308 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | 1 boy | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Kate has just moved into a new home in the suburbs and soon finds herself involved in the lives and problems of her neighbours | |||||
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Oldest Living Graduation Speaker, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | ArtAge's Senior Theatre Resource Center www.seniortheatre.com 2012 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #137578 | |||
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Genre: | monologue, 4 minutes | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | High school seniors have voted to invite a senior citizen to be their graduation speaker, and Sarah Goldfarb is honored to be that citizen. Shes been asked to speak briefly. Relax, she says, At my age you dont write a lengthy speech. But she has written a wise and witty one. In this monologue, she shares an aunt who lived so that when she died, she didnt care and a neighbor who lived so that when she died, nobody else cared. Learn from their mistakes, she advises her audience. Enjoy yourself a little bit more. Protect yourself a little bit less. Care. | |||||
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One Foot After Another | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Today I Am" published by Dramatic Publishing Company | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133500 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1 boy | |||||
Notes: | Originally performed with four other short plays under the overall title: "Today I Am: Five Short Plays About Growing Up Jewish" | |||||
Synopsis: | It is the day for 13 year old Barry to graduate from college and have his bar mitzvah. 82 year old Alma is a college freshman and has not been inside a synagogue since the 1930s. They are out of step with everyone - except each other | |||||
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Romeo and Juliet Together (And Alive) At Last | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74518 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 12 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Based on the book by Avi | |||||
Synopsis: | Eight graders Pete and Annabell are in love but too shy to let each other know. They are cast in "Romeo and Juliet" and then everything that can go wrong does. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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To Life! Growing Up Jewish In America | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133501 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 12 teenagers | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A celebration of three hundred years of growing up Jewish in the USA | |||||
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Too Many Frogs! | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82030 | |||
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Genre: | 50 min Childrens play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | or large mixed cast | |||||
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Synopsis: | Rabbit lives alone - he cooks for himself, cleans up after himself, and reads himself a nightly bedtime story. It's a pleasant life, and Rabbit likes it. Then along comes Froggie - wet from a rainstorm, fixing snacks, and fluffing pillows to make story time more cozy. Too much fuss! Too much clutter! But Froggie listens as Rabbit reads old favorites - Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Elves and the Shoemaker, and The Ugly Duckling - all magically brought to life for the audience on a puppet stage above Rabbit's bookshelves while Rabbit reads. But when Froggie invites dozens and dozens of his frog cousins in for a story, Rabbit's patience runs out - Too Many Frogs! Or is it? Rabbit sends Froggie and his family away, then slowly comes to realize that sharing stories with enthusiastic listeners is a different kind of life. And he likes it! The delightful picture book on which this play is based has been honored with state book awards in Texas and North Dakota and is nominated for many more. One set, with puppet stage | |||||
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Walking Toward America | ||
| 1st Produced: | development at NYU's New Plays for Young Audiences workshop at the Provincetown Playhouse | Jun 2011 | ||||
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 | #139857 | |||
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Synopsis: | Walking Toward America - a one woman script by Sandra Fenichel Asher, is based on the memoirs of Ilga Vise, who was a child witness to the devastation of World War II and the strength that got her family through it. In the winter of 1944-1945, ten-year-old Ilga and her parents left Riga, Latvia, to escape the Russian occupation of their city. Soon they were taken into a German forced labor camp, where they spent a brutal month - but fared far better than the Jewish prisoners held on the other side of a barbed wire fence. Eventually, the family walked 500 miles across frozen, war-torn northern Germany, survived strafing by Russian planes, and found their way to a refugee camp in western Germany. Six years later, they sailed through an Atlantic storm to safety and freedom in America | |||||
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We Will Remember - A Tribute To Veterans | ||
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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 | #74519 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
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Synopsis: | Veterans from the American Civil War to Vietnam tell their stories. | |||||
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Wise Men of Chelm | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133502 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The good natured but often misguided citizens of Chelm | |||||
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Woman Called Truth, A | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #80023 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Sojourner Truth was a slave. As a young girl she was sold away from her family. In later life she battled for freedom for herself and her son and became a respected figure in the abolitionist movement | |||||
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Workout! | ||
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| 1st Published: | HarperCollins | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #92517 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 voice | |||||
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Synopsis: | Two students meet at an aerobics class | |||||
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Wrestling With Angels | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Today I Am" published by Dramatic Publishing Company | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133503 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 2 teenage boys; 2 teenage girls | |||||
Notes: | Originally performed with four other short plays under the overall title: "Today I Am: Five Short Plays About Growing Up Jewish" | |||||
Synopsis: | Jaci's friends have picked a boyfriend for her and planned on giving her body piercings for her birthday. Jaci has a dream and the interpretation given by an Orthodox friend changes her attitude about Judaism and herself | |||||
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