OREN SAFDIE
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Oren Safdie
Broken Places |
| 1st Produced: | Tribeca Lab, NY | 1995 | ||||
| Company: | Tribeca Lab NY; Le Bijou, Montreal | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | A dark comedy about the effects that parents can have on their children's future relationships. | |||||
Fiddler Sub-Terrain |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
| Company: | La MaMa E.T.C. | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | musical comedy | Musical | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Composer: Ronnie Cohen. Fiddler Sub-Terrain was featured on Bravo's Arts & Minds. | |||||
| Synopsis: | A contemporary satire on Fiddler On The Roof, set in the backdrop of Quebec politics. | |||||
Jews & Jesus |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
| Company: | La MaMa ETC, Malibu Stage Co | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | musical comedy | Musical | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written by Oren Safdie and Ronnie Cohen | |||||
| Synopsis: | Jews & Jesus satirizes the naiveté of twenty- and thirty something Jews, half-Jews, Christians who date Jews, and Jews who date Christians, while still asking the question of what place religion has in this unfettered age. The story follows two young couples from North America to Jerusalem as they come to grips with their religion, in the face of their rather secular upbringing. | |||||
La Compagnie |
| 1st Produced: | Alma Shapiro Centre, NY | 1996 | ||||
| Company: | La MaMa E.T.C. | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | comedy drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | La Compagnie was optioned by Castle Rock & CBS, and written into a half-hour comedy pilot script. | |||||
| Synopsis: | La Compagnie is a character driven comedy, set in the garment district of Montreal. A full spectrum of charcters coming from different classes and ethnic backgrounds are bound together at a small, family run, towel manufacturer that supply mid-level stores in Canada. In this environment of minimum wage workers, slimy salesman, and penny-pinching bosses, everyone is dependent on each other. The hinge between these two worlds in Frank Casselli, a hard working company foreman who has to keep the whole thing from falling apart. | |||||
Last Word, The |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre at St. Clement's, NY | 2007 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Drama, full length | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | It tells the story of Henry Grunwald, a Viennese Jew who fled the Nazis and became a successful advertising executive in New York. Now retired and determined to fulfill his dream of becoming a playwright, Henry engages the assistance of a young, opinionated NYU student who shares his passion for writing and headstrong spirit. nytheatre.com | |||||
Private Jokes, Public Places |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press & Dramatists Play Service, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Comedy/Drama, full length | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Capturing the full character of architectural discourse, PRIVATE JOKES, PUBLIC PLACES offers a disturbing and humorous glimpse inside the contemporary world of architecture. Margaret, a young Korean-American student, presents her thesis for a public swimming pool to an all-male jury of famous architects. This simple premise is a jumping-off point for a facile examination of academia, intellectual pretension and the failure of postmodernist culture. The play asks compelling questions about the state of the male-female power struggle, fears of disrupting the status quo and ultimately the importance of challenging tradition. | |||||
West Bank, UK |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
| Company: | La MaMa ETC, in association with Malibu Stage Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written and directed by Oren Safdie, music and lyrics by Ronnie Cohen | |||||
| Synopsis: | about a Palestinian and an Israeli who must share a rent-controlled apartment in London's West Bank | |||||