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Taragon Theatre, Toronto, Ontario

1983

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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S-P-A-C-E Gallery & Performance Space, NY

2007

Dog Run Repertory Theatre Company

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Dog Run Repertory Theatre Company presents Snapshots '07, a new program of world premiere one-act plays. The following description is from the show's press release: "Snapshots 07 continues the popular Snapshots series of one-acts presented by the Worth Street Theater Company. The 2007 edition of Snapshots will include world premieres of First Date by Patrick Blake, two monologues by playwright and novelist Clay McCleod Chapman, Bridesmaid and The Interstate and On, and Jeff Cohens In These Timesscenes from the aftermath of September 11."
- nytheatre.com

2006

The Theatre Outlet

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

semin-autobiographical comedy

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A semin-autobiographical comedy by playwright/director Jeff Cohen, Men of Clay is a personal story about the playwright's father set in early 1970s Baltimore. Men of Clay captures summers on the red clay tennis courts of Druid Hil Park, and the camaraderie bewtween the 'men of clay'--Squeaky Cohn and his buddies Ira Farber, Danny Dickler, and Nate Askin--along with the era's Jewish culture and racial tensions and the men's penny-pinching schemes and their stubborn resistance to change.
press release

@Seaport!, NY

2009

Dog Run Rep

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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In The Soap Myth, a young Jewish journalist and a Holocaust survivor search for evidence in an age of denial, and the truth about the Nazi atrocity of manufacturing soap from the fat of Jewish corpses. Along the way, they become entangled in the politics of Holocaust scholarship and Holocaust denial.
- nytheatre.com

South Street Seaport, 210 Front Street, NY

2009

Dog Run Rep

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Original Playwright - Moliere

Tartuffe is one of Molieres funniest and most controversial comedies. Although it was banned by the Church and led to the playwright's imprisonment, Moliere, as he did in many of his comedies, wrote the play as an indictment of the bourgeoisie, not religion. According to director and adapter Jeff Cohen, Tartuffe is a swindler who could have donned the mantle of any role to dupe his victims. That he picked religion in this instance is due to how easily his bourgeois victimOrgonis duped by his pious charade. It is Orgon who Moliere is bent on skewering, not the Church. Jeff Cohen's new American adaptation, written in verse and rhyming couplets, sets the play in New York City in an earlier Depression-erathe 1930s. His adaptation seeks to employ a particularly American idiom, transposing Moliere's social satire to its American equivalent. In our own present time of outlandish wealth, dashed fortunes, and George Madoff-like swindlers, what better era to look back on than the Great Depression of the 1930s. Moliere spun his comedy from the stock characters of Commedia, and Mr. Cohen spins his from the golden era of American comedians and films.
- press release

Worth Street Theatre, New York

1999

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For me, the very human dilemma at the core of Uncle Jack is summed up in a brief scene near the center of the play. Professor Kaufman has gathered the family together to tell them of his desire to sell the estate; this announcement enrages Jack, who sees in Kaufmans plan connivance and betrayalthis is a frontal assault on the very foundation of Jacks sense of self-worth. He cries out against Kaufman and to his family in real pain. And thenand heres the moment Im talking abouthis mother reaches out and comforts him, cradling his head in her lap, but telling him at the same time that she really thinks that her son-in-law is right. The ineffable sadness of this moment is something we have all known at one time or another; finally, it is the aloneness of Mr. Cohens characters that makes them resonate so strongly.
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