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CHARLIE VARON |
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Plays by Charlie Varon |
People's Violin, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35463 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | can be 14 men | |||||
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Synopsis: | A play about Americans and Israelis, Jews and gentiles, truth and deception. Sol Shank, 43, is an experimental filmmaker, transplanted New York Jew, and unhappy son of a famous man. Sol's father, Sidney Shank, is a psychotherapist, Holocaust authority, New York intellectual and author of two dozen books. Sol's wife, Nirit, is Israeli-born and herself a psychotherapist. To jump-start his faltering career, Sol begins work on a documentary film about his father. He discovers a mysterious violin, launching him on a quest that uncovers hidden chapters in his father's past. Evidence mounts that his father may not be who he claimed, forcing Sol to question what it means to be Jewish-and forcing the audience to question the meaning of identity, tribe and self. Framed as a documentary film itself, THE PEOPLE'S VIOLIN intersperses Sol's narrative with scenes set in New York, Chicago and Tel Aviv. Though not a comedy, the play frequently employs humor in its exploration of family relationships, culture and identity. | |||||
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Rush Limbaugh In Night School | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #49637 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
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Synopsis: | Right-wing radio personality Rush Limbaugh seems unstoppable. His daily audience has risen to six million listeners. But Rush's manager, the fictional Barry Granatour, has disturbing news: Limbaugh faces a serious ratings battle with radio rival J. Neil Rodriguez, a Latino commentator. Granatour suggests Spanish lessons. Donning pseudonym and disguise, Rush attends language classes at the New School for Social Research in Greenwich Village, New York City. There he encounters, in the flesh, all the people he has enjoyed mocking on the air: feminists, leftists, environmentalists. And there he also meets Nina Eggly, a fellow middle-aged student who awakens Rush's dormant romantic urges. Mutual passion flares. What Rush doesn't know is that Nina is really a former Weather Undergrounder, long since chased into hiding by the FBI. There is a Byzantine web of additional plotlines, including a New York Shakespeare Festival production in which Limbaugh is cast as Othello opposite Garrison Keillor's Iago and Jackie Mason's Roderigo, all under the direction of Spalding Gray. The play, framed as a public television documentary, is studded with political and social satire and builds to a wildly farcical conclusion. | |||||
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