JOAN TORRES
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Plays by Joan Torres
Antigone In New York |
| 1st Produced: | Washington at the Arena Stage | 1993 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, NY | - | ||
| 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: | Translation Tragicomedy | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Janusz Glowacki. Named one of 10 Best Plays of the Year by Time Magazine. Screenplay translated by Eva Nagorski | ||||
Synopsis: Two homeless men, a Pole, a Russian, and a Puerto Rican homeless woman try to make life continue in Tompkins Square Park by getting the body of a dead man from Potter's Field so that he can have his own grave. A comedy about unhappiness | ||||
Better Half Dead |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1998 | ||
| 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 Thriller | Thriller | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: wife leaves second husband for first and gets killed in the process, the mayhem includes a storm, a disguise, a strangulation and a murderous fur coat | ||||
Fortinbras Gets Drunk |
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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: | tragicomedy | Tragedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Janusz Glowacki. Translated by Jadwiga Kosicka, Joan Torres, and Konrad Brodzinski | ||||
Synopsis: A macabre retelling of Hamlet from the Norwegian point of view | ||||