MARTIN BLANK
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Martin Blank
Avenue Of The Americas |
| 1st Produced: | Yale Drama School | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: When Katie White escapes from a mental institution in New Jersey, she goes on a journey and fulfills her lifelong dream to live in New York City and write television advertisements. In this dark comedy. by playwright Martin Blank that runs one full hour, Katie's television ads become wildly successful. Katie then threatens to take over a major ad agency and the entire advertising industry. However, with her newfound success, Katie quickly finds her life as well as her advertisements in danger. | ||||
Big John |
| 1st Produced: | D.C. Arts Center | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: A gay con man and a young woman, through a series of con jobs, try to make their way across the United States to meet legendary porn star, John Holmes. In this dark comedy, with a running time of just over an hour, the con jobs are more difficult than our heroes thought with comic results. "Big John" by playwright Martin Blank has an unusual real life cult following: the actor who played John Holmes is constantly recognized in New York City. | ||||
California Kid, The |
| 1st Produced: | Arizona Jewish Theatre | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | full legth | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: An elderly couple in New York City finds they have trouble making ends meet, so they start dealing the drug "Ecstasy" to their friends. In this "Cocoon" like play with a dark comic twist, the community of senior citizens and our heroes deal Ecstasy to start living life fully again. Interestingly, several years after the play was produced, the same story would play out in real life in Florida. | ||||
Crossing Israel |
| 1st Produced: | JCC Springfield, MASS | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Young Audience | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: for young and family audiences that tells the story of Israel. The play begins with the birth of Zionism, and takes the audience on a journey from the Negev, to Jerusalem, to Tel Aviv. Crossing Israel comes alive through audience interaction with historical figures, as well as people one would encounter in modern day Israel, even a Bedouin boy in an isolated village. Originally commissioned by Theater Ariel in Philadelphia, the goal of the play is to give young Jewish and family audiences a sometimes comic, sometimes sad, but mostly hopeful sense of Israel, how it got where it is, and how its future includes each of us | ||||
Hamlet #44 |
| 1st Produced: | Capital Fringe Festival | - | ||
| Company: | Georgetown Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | comedy | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: Madonna brings back Shakespeare from the dead to rewrite Hamlet for her. | ||||
Law Of Return, The |
| 1st Produced: | Center Stage Theatre Jerusalem | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | full length | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: an original spy thriller inspired by the factual events surrounding the 1984-85 Jonathan Jay Pollard espionage case. The play depicts the actions of Jonathan Pollard, a United States Naval intelligence analyst based in Suitland, Maryland, who removed thousands of classified documents from the Navys Anti-Terrorist Alert Center and turned them over to Israel. "The Law of Return" refers to the law stating that any Jew who presents himself at an Israeli embassy seeking asylum must be taken. Once found out by the United States., Pollard lead police on a wild chase through D.C., desperately hoping to get to the Embassy of Israel and seek asylum. The climatic ending of The Law of Return is set at the Embassy gates. | ||||
New York Miracle, A |
| 1st Produced: | Jewish Theatre Workshop | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | drama short play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: In 1917 Brooklyn, a poor Jewish immigrant woman's husband suddenly dies leaving her and her daughter to fight for their family's survival | ||||
Read My Lips |
| 1st Produced: | New Gate Theatre | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Comedy with dance | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Read My Lips is dark comedy, with a running time of fifty minutes, about a young man coming to teams with the death of the grandmother that raised him. A combination play and performance art dance piece, with a clear story line, each character has a "shadow" that dances behind him or her and speaks directly to the audience. Our hero must come to terms with what happens when the person you care about most is gone. Or are they? | ||||
Scenes From Life In America |
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Studio Theatre Octoberfest | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | full legth | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: The coming of age story about "Generation X," tracks a group of close friends from the time they leave college through the first ten years of life in a competitive adult world. In this dark comedy, each character must reconcile what they expected the adult world to be, and how it really is. Some get what they want, some will find they can't, but all will be forever changed. | ||||