ARTHUR SAINER (1924 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Arthur Sainer
After the Baal-Shem Tov |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1979 | ||
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| 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 | |||
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Bitch of Waverly Place, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1964 | ||
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| 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 | |||
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Blind Angel, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1965 | ||
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| 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 | |||
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Boat Sun Cavern |
| 1st Produced: | Bennington, Vermont | 1969 | ||
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| 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 | |||
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Notes: music by George Prideaux and Mark Hardwick | ||||
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Bombflower, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1966 | ||
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| 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 | |||
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Carol in Winter Sunlight |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1977 | ||
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| 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 | |||
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Notes: music by George Prideaux | ||||
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Celebration, The: Jooz/Guns/Movies/ The Abyss |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1972 | ||
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| 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: | Epic | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large cast with doubling | |||
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Synopsis: An epic and sometimes comic history of the Jews, shifting back and forth from Biblical times (Abraham and Isaac, Moses, Pharaoh and Mrs. Pharaoh, Jonah) to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: a Polish village, the Lower East Side, the Warsaw Ghetto, contemporary Manhattan. Focuses on Jim, a writer, his estranged wife Lillian, a demonic movie producer with whom Jim works, and Grampa who comes from the old world and becomes a butcher on the Lower East Side. There are a number of original songs. | ||||
Charley Chestnut Rides the I.R.T. |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1975 | ||
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| 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 | |||
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| Parts Other: | large cast with doubling | |||
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Synopsis: Structured like a piece of popular entertainment: songs, puppets, parodies of movies. Charley's a subway conductor, night shift on the I.R.T. Typical night: Charley's fight with middle-aged scavenger who wants Charley's Daily News; silent dialogue with blonde in whisky ad; Graffiti Kid who sprays car and sometimes passengers. . - Typical day at home: Mary doing housework, Ella doing homework. But a visit to the doctor - and Charley gets the death warrant. Rare blood disease? We're never told. How long? Months. What's Charley feeling? Cheated. Through poker-playing scenes with his buddies at the local garage, family scenes and strange subway encounters, grotesque, sometimes comic scenes, we see Charley struggling to regain control of his life or at least understand what's happening. At one point there's a musical recreation of the '39 World's Fair, when Charley and Mary were young lovers. | ||||
Children's Army Is Late, The |
| 1st Produced: | Bronxville, New York | 1967 | ||
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| 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 | |||
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| Parts Other: | large cast with doubling | |||
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Synopsis: Story of David, experimental filmmaker, his wife Carol, daughter Kate and their dog Demeter, living in a rural area, domestic life set against re-enactment of myths and legends that involve Hector and Achilles, the Goddess Diana, the Drowned Man, and agatnst other strange figures: Man with the Suitcase, comic figures of Mushky and Milly. David wants to do documentary footage about an old man, but the first old man he finds dies, and the second old man, a Mr. Edison, dies after David has done much talking with and filming of him. The dog Demeter uncovers the dead Edison who then takes David on a fantastic tour of the Chamber of the Dead. Includes a number of lyrical songs, as well as comic songs like "The 8th Street Rag." | ||||
Day Old Bread: The Worst Good Time I Ever Had |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1976 | ||
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| 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 | |||
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Day Speaks But Cannot Weep, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1965 | |||
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| 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 | |||
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Game of the Eye, The |
| 1st Produced: | Bronxville, New York | 1964 | ||
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| 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 | |||
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Go Children Slowly |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1973 | ||
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| 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 | |||
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God Wants What Men Want |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1966 | ||
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| 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 | |||
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I Hear It Kissing Me, Ladies |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1970 | ||
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| 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 | |||
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I Piece Smash |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1970 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "The Scene/2", The Smith/New Egypt, New York | 1974 | ||
| 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 | |||
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Images Of the Coming Dead |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1971 | ||
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| 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 | |||
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Noses |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1967 | ||
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| 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 | |||
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Om Service, The |
| 1st Produced: | Arlington Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts | 1968 | ||
| Company: | Theatre Workshop, Boston | |||
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| 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: | ritual | One Act | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 6 |
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Notes: Written by Julie Portman and Arthur Sainer, music by Phil Corner; choreography by Elizabeth Martin | ||||
Synopsis: A ritual of poetry, movement, words and music for a congregation of people gathered for a spiritual purpose. | ||||
OM: A Sharing Service |
| 1st Produced: | Boston | 1968 | ||
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| 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 | |||
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Rich Man, Poor Man Play, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1976 | ||
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| 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 | |||
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Notes: music by David Tice and Paul Dyer | ||||
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Spring Offensive, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1974 | ||
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| 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 | |||
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Sunday Childhood Journeys to Nobody at Home |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1980 | ||
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| 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 | |||
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Thing Itself, The |
| 1st Produced: | Minneapolis | 1967 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Playwrights for Tomorrow 6, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis | 1969 | ||
| 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 | |||
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Untitled Chase |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1965 | ||
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| 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 | |||
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Van Gogh |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1970 | ||
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| 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 | |||
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Witnesses |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1977 | ||
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| 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 | |||
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