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LEAH COHEN |
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Nationality: USA/British Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Besides writing plays, Leah has directed, acted, sung and danced on stage. had poetry published, in 'Poems on the Buses', pub and park readings. She also has written short stories lauded by Beryl Bainbridge ('brilliant and marvellous'), Stanley Reynolds (Punch mag - 'I love the stories. I promise I'll publish them') Women's Press and Peggy Taub ('please oh please, read me another one, oh, please'). She directed a play of the radio programme, 'Orson Welles 'War of the Worlds' in Caracas, and was told by two Djs who'd gone through the actual experience, that her play was more 'powerful and frightening'. Leah's play 'Short Stay', produced in London, was compared to Ibsen's 'Doll House' and to Gorki's 'The Lower Depths' by a review in The Evening Standard. Leah founded the Art Students League in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the school is now one of the foremost art institutes in P.R. She had begun creative writing workshops in every country in which she lived, having moved from place to place as an 'ex-pat' wife, with her two sons and ex-husband. She worked from English teacher to Asst Editor to Medical Claims Investigator to estate mgt to keyworker in a refuge for DV, adviser in Citizen's Advice Bureau, Royal Courts of Justice and PSU, at the RCJ, helping litigants in person. She is now married second time round, living in London and doing voluntary work. She's also working on a novel on the days when she isn't wondering why she isn't. Leah is a 'people person' and loves photography, good cinema, painting, drawing and overhearing interesting conversations. She hopes to be reborn as a fly on the wall.
Plays by Leah Cohen
Auctioneer | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playhouse Theatre, Westminster, London | 1994 | ||||
Company: | meltpot productions | |||||
| 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 | #7406 | |||
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: | surreal short play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 5 0chairs0 | |||||
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Synopsis: | a monologue about an auctioneer trying to auction off a ragdoll. As it's 'neither very old nor very new', no one wants to bid. The chairs in the room are real people with masks on, each representing someone important in the ragdoll's past life. Little poetic notes are used as a way for the ragdoll to communicate to the auctionneer. A 'masterbater' is described by the Auctioneer as the 'only honest man' as he 'owes nothing to anyone nor does anyone owe anything to him'. In the end, the auctioneer takes the ragdoll home as he is angry, feels sorry for it, and it is 'the only child he has ever had'. | |||||
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My Flossie Can Stand On Her Head | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playhouse Theatre, Westminster, London | 1994 | ||||
Company: | meltpot productions | |||||
| 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 | #7407 | |||
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: | surreal short play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | 1b | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | a dialogue between husbands and wives while the hostess' daughter is upstairs playing with a guest's son. It's a 'non-sensical' type play which begins when the hostess is concerned when there's a 'lull' in the conversation and she talks about how 'brilliant' her Flossie is! All parents now compete. 2 lesbians at the table are in conflict. One, a teacher, expresses concern that children can be instinctively dangerous and the others begin to compete for the 'brilliance' of their kids. One father says his son, Daniel, (who's upstairs playing with Flossie) is 'dangerous' - while his wife finds him 'precocious'. In the end, Daniel comes down, having left Flossie 'I don't know why but that kid of yours is 'hanging upside down, with her tongue hanging out'. All the guests suddenly get bored and leave, hand in hand, laughing. It's only a 'dinner party' after all! | |||||
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Short Stay | ||
| 1st Produced: | Grace, London | 1992 | ||||
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 | #7408 | |||
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 | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 12 character, doubling possible | |||||
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Synopsis: | About a motel, upstate NY, where a young mother of 2, leaves her husband and kids, goes there to try and 'find herself', and in the motel, becomes involved with the long stay welfare residents, including helping one by delivering a baby, (then being offered it for sale), and the 'short stay' quickies, including her husband and his secretary (surprise!). Will she go back home again or is it, in fact, just a 'short stay'? | |||||
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