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JOSEPH CHAIKIN (1935 - 2003) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Joe Chaikin, who died in his sleep on Sunday, June 22, was for four decades as significant a figure as the American theater has yet produced. Actor, director, writer, and founder of the Open Theatre, he influenced the lives of innumerable artists worldwide. Plagued his whole life by chronic heart disease, in 1984 he suffered an aphasic stroke from which he recovered sufficiently to direct, write, and even perform for two decades more. Joe once said that, since he had not been expected to survive past puberty, he considered every further day of his life a miracle. The Voice invited Joe's friends and colleagues to share their memories of the miracle, which appear this week and next.
- Michael Feingold
Plays by Joseph Chaikin
Savage/Love | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Sam Shepard Seven Plays" published by Faber and Faber 1985 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571136155 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39307 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard | |||||
| Romantic love in all its aspects | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Shut Eye | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | Pig Iron Company | |||||
| 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 | #6507 | |||
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Genre: | Comic Musical Fantasy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | conceived and created by Joseph Chaikin and the Company. Text by Deborah Stein | |||||
Synopsis: | A newlywed couple falls asleep at the dinner table etc; physical feats and ecstatic songs with intimate reflections | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Struck Dumb | ||
| 1st Produced: | Taper Too, Los Angeles, CA | 1991 | ||||
Company: | Mark Taper Forum | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Best One-Act Plays:1990-1991", Applause, New York, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104804 | |||
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Genre: | monologue, 50 minutes | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Jean-Claude van Itallie and Joseph Chaikin | |||||
Synopsis: | Born in Lebanon, the aphasic hero of "Struck Dumb" lives in Venice, California. "These words are about wonder. When an earthquake shakes the brain, and you stumble out alive, there's an odd exhilaration. . .like a baby, you begin all over again doping out the world with the intensity of a Talmudic scholar." - Dan Sullivan, LA Times. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Texts | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1981 | |||||
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 | #6509 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Adapted from Samuel Becket by Joseph Chaikin and S Kent | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tongues | ||
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1978 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Seven Plays", Bantam, New York, 1981 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39305 | |||
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Genre: | piece for voice and precussion Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Sam Shepard | |||||
Synopsis: | on his deathbed a man hears voices and sees visions from his past and from his future | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tongues (and new writing inspired by it) | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1997 | ||||
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 | #106993 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: 7:84 Theatre Company Scotland - Acc.12911/79 | |||||
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| 1st Produced: | Roundhouse, London | 1966 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1968 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6508 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | Large Cast | |||||
Notes: | Music by Richard Peastee; lyrics by Adrian Mitchell; original text by Denis Cannan (aka Tell Me Lies; adaptors of documentary material: Michael Kustow and Michael Scott; directed by Peter Brook. Majot contribution from Charles Wood. Developed with works | |||||
Synopsis: | America and Vietnam, anti war protest | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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War In Heaven, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1987 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New American Library, New York, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39306 | |||
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Genre: | Monogue for radio | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | broadcast 1985 written with Sam Shepard. | |||||
Synopsis: | a piece about an angel trapped between two dimensions | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: 7:84 Theatre Company Scotland - Acc.12911/192 | |||||
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When The World Was Green | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0822220657 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #44072 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard | |||||
| A hauntingly lyrical memory play, WHEN THE WORLD WAS GREEN is steeped in the elliptical, poetic style for which Shepard is justly celebrated. Sketched out in just a handful of scenes is a world of sensual delight, of great journeys to distant lands, and exotic food piled as high as a mountain, glistening in the sun. But as always, the beauty of Shepard's landscape is only skin-deep. Under the surface lies a family vendetta that has lasted for seven generations. The play has only two characters, an old man who was once a superb chef and a young reporter who comes to interview him in the prison where he as been locked up for many years after poisoning a man he mistook for his cousin. Their eight conversations are interspersed with a sequence of monologues in which both characters recall incidents from their childhood. These link together to form a tender narrative of regret and loss through which they transcend their memories and reach mutual forgiveness and love. | |||||
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