EMILY MANN (1952 - )
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Emily Mann
Annulla Allen: The Autobiography Of A Survivor |
| 1st Produced: | Minneapolis | 1977 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Theatre Communications Group, New York | 1985 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: aka Annulla, An Autobiography | ||||
Synopsis: about the life of Anulla Allen, who lived as a Jew but "passed" as Aryan during the Nazi regime in Germany. The play is structured as an interview, during the course of which we discover all that this passionate woman has seen and experienced. A Polish Jew married to an Austrian Jew, she managed to elude the authorities, and even get her husband released from Dachau. Decades ahead of her time, she dreamt of starting the first political Womens Party as early as 1939, and actually wrote her own six-hour play on the subject of her life. Constantly moving as a child, she learned seven languages, finally settling in London as a grown woman, which she adored. The entire interview takes place in her history-packed London kitchen, as she prepares dinner for her bed-ridden sister. nytheatre.com | ||||
Betsey Brown |
| 1st Produced: | Philadelphia | 1989 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: from novel by Ntozake Shange | ||||
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Cherry Orchard, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 2001 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | ||||
Synopsis: The play takes place on the grounds of Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya's estate, somewhere in the provinces of Russia. Lopakhin, a sometime peasant who has become a wealthy businessman, and Dunyasha, the maid, are waiting for Lyubov. She has been away from home a long time, living in Paris with her lover. When she arrives with her daughter, Anya, she is welcomed by her brother, Gayev, and other family, friends, staff and neighbors. Lyubov and Gayev recall happy times from their childhoods on the estate. But unless the family can raise enough money to save it, the estate will have to be sold to clear Lyubov's debts. They concoct several plans, one of which entails cutting down their famous cherry orchard. But no one plan is settled upon. As August approaches, when the estate must be auctioned off to meet the mortgage payments, what unfolds in this household is a comedy-drama of timeless, bittersweet beauty. THE CHERRY ORCHARD is universally acknowledged as one of the masterpieces of world theatre. | ||||
Execution Of Justice |
| 1st Produced: | 1983-84 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | American Theatre Magazine, NY - November | 1985 | ||
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| Genre: | Docu-drama | Documentary | Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: The controversial killing of San Francisco's mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk by Daniel James White is examined in the courtroom, reflecting conflicting social and political ideals | ||||
Greensboro |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Theatre Communications Group, New York | - | ||
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| Genre: | Requiem | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Terrible exploits of the Klu Klux Klan | ||||
Having Our Say, The Delaney Sisters First 100 Years |
| 1st Produced: | Booth Theatre, New York | 1995 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Theatre Communications Group, New York | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Adapted from the book Having our Say by Sarah L. and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth, based on the lives of Sadie and Bessie Delany. | ||||
Synopsis: The lives of two black octogenarian sisters | ||||
House Of Bernarda Alba, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 11 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca | ||||
Synopsis: the problems of five women whose mother keeps them under strict subjection and prevents them from marrying because there are no suitors of the right class | ||||
Meshugah |
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||
Notes: adapted from the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer | ||||
Synopsis: Set in the 1950s on Manhattans Upper West Side, MESHUGAH is a tragicomic portrait of a community of recent Jewish émigrés living in the wake of the Holocaust. When Aaron Greidinger, a struggling novelist and advice columnist, falls in love with the beautiful mistress of a friend from his Warsaw past, dark secrets and bizarre twists threaten to break up the unusual romance. Emily Mann brings to swirling theatrical life Singers poignant love story of lost souls in a world gone meshugah. | ||||
Mrs Packard |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: In 1861 the Reverend Theophilis Packard had his wife committed to a lunatic asylum because they were disagreeing on religion and how their children should be brought up. | ||||
Nights And Days |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Avant-Scene", Paris, July | 1984 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Pierre Laville | ||||
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Still Life |
| 1st Produced: | Chicago | 1980 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Theatre Communications Group, New York | 1982 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: The Impact of Vietnam on three ordinary Americans | ||||