JOAN TORRES   


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Plays by Joan Torres

JOAN TORRES
Antigone In New York
1st Produced:
Washington at the Arena Stage
1993
Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, NY
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Genre:
Translation Tragicomedy
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Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
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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
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JOAN TORRES
Better Half Dead
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1998
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Genre:
Comedy Thriller
Thriller
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
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
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JOAN TORRES
Fortinbras Gets Drunk
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Genre:
tragicomedy
Tragedy
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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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
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