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STEVEN FECHTER |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Plays by Steven Fechter |
167 Tongues | ||
| 1st Produced: | P.S. 69, 77-02 37th Ave, Jackson Heights (Queens), NY | 07 May 2010 | ||||
Company: | Jackson Repertory Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #114295 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | conceived and directed by Ari Laura Kreith. The piece is written by 11 writers: Jenny Lyn Bader, Meny Beriro, Alvin Eng, Steven Fechter, Jennifer Gibbs, Les Hunter, Anna Kushner, Rehana Mirza, Jeffrey Solomon, Suzanne Sheptock, and Stefanie Zadravec. | |||||
Synopsis: | 167 Tongues explores the emotional geography of Jackson Heights, the most culturally diverse neighborhood in the world. Intermittent street scenes weave together alongside continuous stories in this 37-character play. An Indian sweet shop vendor struggles to keep her store going and her suitors at bay, a Nepali woman and a Mexican man fall in love across a linguistic divide, an Irish ghost befriends an troubled Ecuadorian girl and her Bangladeshi best friend, a Dominican manicurist wonders whether her Jewish Chinese boyfriend will propose before she is deported by the INS, and a Rwandan night nurse attempts to understand the 167 distinct languages spoken in the local Emergency Room. This theatrical experience combines street scenes with continuous narratives, found sounds, and movement in an exploration of Jackson Heights, Queens, the most diverse neighborhood in the world. | |||||
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Artifacts, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tiny Mythic Theater, New York | 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 | #104253 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | In The Artifacts, two great divas of modern drama, Ibsens Hedda Gabler and Strindbergs Miss Julie, form an uneasy relationship in search of sisterly companionship. Their target is a dedicated young graduate student of theatre in a modern American liberal arts college. Steven Fechter has said that the idea of the play initially came out of the tension he felt between the mystery and purity of Art and the analytical thesis-driven force of Academia. The Artifacts is a celebration of the enduring power, beauty, tragedy, and danger of great dramatic art, which Hedda and Julie represent. It is also a darkly comic satire of foolish academic mentors who prey upon vulnerable young students. | |||||
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Commission, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Connelly Theater, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | The Dreamscape Theatre and the Present Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Theater De Ziet 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71647 | |||
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Genre: | 1h 35m Drama Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | The seduction of war. The casualties of passion. This world premiere by acclaimed writer Steven Fechter ("The Woodsman") spins backward in time to reveal the fragments, both personal and political, left behind in the wake of a bloody civil war. | |||||
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Ellipsis | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sande Shurin Theater, New York | 2002 | ||||
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 | #104254 | |||
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Golden Aurora, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Working Artists Theatre Project | |||||
| 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 | #88288 | |||
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Genre: | 1h 55m, Drama, | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | In this dark and modern fable, a Mid-Western town transforms into a taboo world of myth and legend. The Golden Aurora is the haunting and redemptive tale of a man who falls in love with a rare and beautiful dog. www.TheGoldenAurora.com 1h 55m, Manhattan, NYC Drama, | |||||
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Intimacies | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1997 | ||||
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 | #104255 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Land Surveyor, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Westbeth Theater Center, New York | 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 | #104256 | |||
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Last Cigarette, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Off Off Broadway Festival Plays 24th Series" published by Samuel French Inc, New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104257 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | In the last bar in Santa Monica that allows smoking two people meet - but she has a secret | |||||
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Lunch With Jack | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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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 | #104258 | |||
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Mentee | ||
| 1st Produced: | Workshop Theater, New York | 2007 | ||||
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 | #104259 | |||
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Mission, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Center Stage, NY | 2009 | ||||
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 | #94970 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of Bell, Book & Candle | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Newspaper Play, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | HERE, New York | 1998 | ||||
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 | #104260 | |||
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Retreat, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | West Bank Cafe, New York | 1985 | ||||
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 | #104261 | |||
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Schiele | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ohio Theatre, New York | 1984 | ||||
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 | #104262 | |||
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Shakespeare's Slave | ||
| 1st Produced: | Clurman Theatre | 29 May 2011 | ||||
Company: | Resonance Ensemble | |||||
| 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 | #134167 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | What if William Shakespeare had never written Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, and all his other later masterpieces? In 1596, Shakespeare had a creative crisis. Broke and bedeviled by self-doubt, he was unable to write the "Henry IV" play commissioned by the Lord Chamberlain. The question of whether "to be or not to be" hung by a thread-until Shakespeare met one of London's first African slaves-who changed his life. | |||||
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Wilderness | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dance Theatre Workshop, New York | 1988 | ||||
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 | #104263 | |||
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Woodsman, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Raw Space, NYC | 01 Mar 2000 | ||||
Company: | Actors Studio Free Theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69707-4 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #97050 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | inspired the Kevin Bacon film of the same name | |||||
| Richard Ings plays Walter, a gentle and reserved man stringing out his meagre existence in a sparsely-furnished apartment across the road from a grade school. Walter is just out from a 12-year prison sentence for molesting several girls aged 10 to 12. So the school is an issue. But more than that, it is people's assumptions of what the view from his window means - or their doubts or suspicions, and attempts to suppress them - that provide the play's charge. Walter's therapist Rosen tells him to write a journal of this thoughts. Meanwhile they engage in cat-and-mouse games of question and answer, Rosen refusing either to voice any judgments, reveal his own feelings, or offer any advice. In a way Walter is as frustrated as anybody at society's inability to pin him down. Is he capable of redemption, or (a major theme) normality? What is normality anyway, and who then are the misfits? So he starts to write: not his feelings, but his observations of an unknown man who has started hanging around the school gates. Casting another villain in the piece knocks our perspective out. On the one hand, Walter knows more than most the psyche of this man - while not exactly empathising or encouraging, he understands. On the other hand this makes him feel a heavy responsibility to do something to prevent it if he can. Twice more the play raises the possibility that a child is being abused, and Walter is compelled to try and stop it. He is written as a man who, despite his past crimes, cannot bear the thought of causing any pain. He also - somewhat child-like himself - genuinely seems to understand children's points of view. We hear a little about his past crimes: in his report two of his victims in fact lied about their ages so as to fall within the desired 10-12 bracket. | |||||
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