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JOVANKA BACH (1937 - 2006) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: n/a |
Literary Agent for Jovanka Bach's plays is: B.K. Nelson, Inc. (760) 778 8800. Jovanka Bach, a Southern California playwright and physician whose stream of dramas included a trilogy spanning half a century of turmoil in her ancestral homeland of Montenegro in the former Yugoslavia
Plays by Jovanka Bach
Chekhov & Maria | ||
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | - - - | ||||
Company: | John Stark Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55381 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Set in Yalta in the early 1900s, the play is a portrait of the famed Russian playwright, Anton Chekhov. With his health rapidly deteriorating, Anton struggles to complete his masterwork The Cherry Orchard. At his side is his possessive sister Maria, prodding him to write while strictly maintaining her brothers affairs and keeping him away from his new wife Olga | |||||
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Evening with Stephen Leacock, An | ||
| 1st Produced: | Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver | 1972 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124498 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by John Stark with contributions from Jovanka Bach | |||||
Synopsis: | This presentation features Stark as the disheveled McGill University professor - a Leacock trademark, and draws upon Leacock's vast body of work which consists of over forty volumes of humor and essays. Leacock's style was much like Mark Twains'. One of his most famous sketches, "My financial career" was first published in LIFE magazine in 1896. The story focuses on the plight of a bashful young man's first brush with the intimidating world of high finance. It is typical Leacock: the little man, Chaplinesque in character; always at odds with the machinations of modern society; never quite fitting in anywhere; confused, perplexed, flustered, and someone that everyone can identify with. By the 1920, Leacock had become the most widely read humorist in the English speaking language. | |||||
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Family Glembay, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Olympic Arts Festival, Los Angeles Olympics | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124499 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | adaptec from the work of Miroslav Krleza, a Yugoslavian Nobel Prize nominee | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Marko The Prince | ||
| 1st Produced: | Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles | Jul 2001 | ||||
Company: | Immigrants' Theatre Project | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #85704 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | third play of A Balkan Trilogy. The play was also given a highly successful off-Broadway staging by the Immigrant's Theatre Project and John Stark at the Barrow Group Theatre in July of 200 | |||||
Synopsis: | The play is part of The Balkan Trilogy, three plays by Bach about Yugoslavians and Serbian-Americans during the rise and fall of Yugoslavia under Tito and the Communists. This synopsis is provided by the company: "Marko the Prince is set in Sabor, a village on the border of Bosnia and Serbia, at the start the '90s Balkan War. Michael, a first-generation American, returns to Sabor bury his mother in the village of her birth. Michael's plans are derailed when he discovers smoldering religious and ethnic resentments surrounding the ownership of Sabor's tiny village cemetery. Gossip, innuendo, passion, and politics cause uneasy alliances and dangerous conflict. | |||||
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Matter Of The Heart, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124496 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | O'Neill semi-finalist | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mercy Warren's Tea | ||
| 1st Produced: | Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles | 27 Nov | ||||
Company: | John Stark Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104183 | |||
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Notes: | won an American Radio Theatre award for 'best play' and was broadcast on public radio. | |||||
Synopsis: | Founding Mother, Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814), America's first woman playwright and historian, secretly authored anti- British plays that sparked Revolutionary sentiment . Mercy Warren gives a tea party welcoming important guests - including Abigail Adams and Peggy Arnold. Tensions mounts as the play unfolds and we learn more about our leading political figures of the time. . .and secrets are revealed. | |||||
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Name Day | ||
| 1st Produced: | Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles | 1995 | ||||
Company: | Immigrants' Theatre Project | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70245 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | nominated for the PEN Center West Drama Award. The play is the first in a trilogy about Serbian American and Serbian cultural experiences, and the Balkan crisis. Name Day's off-Broadway opening at the Barrow Group Theatre, produced and directed by Marcy Arlin of the Immigrant's Theatre Project, was greeted with unanimous acclaim by audiences and critics alike | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in Southern California circa 1985, in the homey kitchen and living room of Kara Mitor (Mikel Sarah Lambert) and her husband, Velko (Bob Adrian), "Name Day" begins and ends with Kara pathetically clutching a set of baby clothes she made long ago for her infant son, Rado, who died during World War II. Between our first glimpse of Kara and our last, the true history of these musty relics will emerge - destroying the hard-earned peace of two Serbian families. | |||||
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Nightsong for the Boatman | ||
| 1st Produced: | TBG Arts Complex | 13 Jan 2011 | ||||
Company: | John Stark Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #123386 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Nightsong for the Boatman centers on aging, alcoholic, washed-up poet Harry Appleman. When he attempts suicide by jumping off a bridge, Harry is stopped by a sardonic boatman. The boatman wants Harry to give his life to the devilunless Harry wins a round of dice. After Harry loses, he must cross the River Styx or find a willing participant to go in his place. Director John Stark was rummaging through the belongings of his deceased wife, playwright Jovanka Bach, when he uncovered a never before seen copy ofNightsong For The Boatman, which she had written more than twenty years ago and never shown him. | |||||
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O'Neill's Ghosts | ||
| 1st Produced: | Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104184 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A sequel to "A Long Day's Journey Into Night" | |||||
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Sylvie | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124497 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | O'Neill semi-finalist | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Thousand Souls, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles | Apr 1999 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104185 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | second play of A Balkan Trilogy | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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