EDWARD EINHORN (1970 - )
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Edward Einhorn
Boy Who Wanted to Be a Robot, The |
| 1st Produced: | Theater Five | 2005 | ||
| Company: | Evolve Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||
| Genre: | Short Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 1 | |||
Notes: Runs 35 minutes. Produced as part of the NEUROfest, a festival of plays about neurological conditions. | ||||
Synopsis: A Pinocchio tale in reverse, presented as a fairy tale from a foreign culture-the culture of people with Asperger's Syndrome (a form of autism). | ||||
Cat's Cradle |
| 1st Produced: | Walkerspace | 2008 | ||
| Company: | Untitled Theatre Company #61 | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||
| Genre: | musical adaptation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: book and lyrics by Edward Einhorn music by Henry Akona from novel by Kurt Vonnegut | ||||
Synopsis: a new calypso musical, based on Kurt Vonnegut's 1963 novel Cat's Cradle. This adaptation is set in the Church of Bokononism, a mythical religion created by Vonnegut. The musical is presented as a Passion Play for Bokononism, and the choir members of this church will sing, play instruments, and enact Vonnegut's story about a man called Jonah, a new invention called ice-nine, and the havoc this seemingly innocuous invention wreaks on the world. As the play is performed a video feed will project models, manipulated live in the theater, as the scenic backdrop. Bokononism, a religion "based on shameless lies," embodied many of Vonnegut's philosophic ideas. Ice-nine is a fictional creation that could change the freezing point of water -a change that would cause a quick chain reaction leading to the end of the world. Many of the lyrics for the musical are taken straight from Vonnegut, who wrote numerous "calypsos," prayers of Bokononism, in his book. These calypsos comment on the action, much in the manner of a Greek chorus. Bokonon himself remains onstage throughout, as the lead singer and commentator. The musical travels from Ilium, New York to the mythical Carribean island of San Lorenzo, Bokonon's home. - press release | ||||
Doctors Jane and Alexander |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | Ensemble Studio Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||
| Genre: | Short Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Runs 90 minutes. Winner of a Sloan Grant. Produced as a staged reading as part of the First Light Festival, plays about science. | ||||
Synopsis: Using found, fabricated, and occasionally finagled text, Edward Einhorn explores the life of his grandfather Alexander Wiener, the co-discoverer of the Rh factor in blood, through interviews with his mother Jane Einhorn, a PhD psychologist who recently retired due to a debilitating stroke. In the course of these interviews his grandfather's ambitions and achievements are contrasted with his mother's and ultimately with his own. | ||||
Golem Stories |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||
| Company: | FHB Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | Theater 61 Press | 2005 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Runs 90 minutes. Produced as part of the Spotlight On Festival, in which it won an award for Best Play (Playwright's Award). Published as part of the book "The Golem, Methuselah, and Shylock" | ||||
Synopsis: retells the legend of a clay man in 16th century Prague. Rabbi Loew creates a Golem to defend the Jews, but this Golem seems more interested in listening to the Rebbetsin's stories and falling in love with the Rabbi's daughter. Is he the reincarnated spirit of her murdered lover? Or does his childlike façade hide the face of a demon? | ||||
Linguish |
| 1st Produced: | Theater Five | 2006 | ||
| Company: | Untitled Theater Company #61 | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||
| Genre: | Short Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Run 70 minutes. Produced as part of the NEUROfest, a festival of plays about neurological conditions | ||||
Synopsis: LINGUISH posits a disease which causes aphasia, the neurological disorder that takes away one's ability to use language. Four relative strangers are among the first to be affected, and are thrown together in quarantine. As the disease affects them, they are forced to try to find new ways to communicate. | ||||
Living Methuselah, The |
| 1st Produced: | Theater 22, New York City | 1997 | ||
| Company: | Untitled Theater Company #61 | |||
| 1st Published: | Theater 61 Press | 2005 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Runs 90 minutes. Published as part of the book "The Golem, Methuselah, and Shylock." | ||||
Synopsis: In THE LIVING METHUSELAH, the world's oldest man has lived through the Flood, the Plague, Sodom and Gomorrah, Pompeii, and his own extremely poor judgment, thanks to his wife Serach, the world's oldest woman. Now age and a poor health regimen have caught up with him, and the doctor tells him he won't make it past the end of the play. Afflicted with every disease known to man, Methuselah fights on, flashing back in his delirium to former disasters and fantasizing about having handmaidens. Will he survive? It ain't necessarily so. | ||||
Lysistrata |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
| Company: | Untitled Theater Company #61 and Parker Gainesville | |||
| 1st Published: | Theater 61 Press | 2004 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Asdaptation | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 11 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: This newest adaptation of Aristophanes' philosophical comedy focuses on three elements of the human condition that have not changed in nearly 2500 years: war, sex, and, most of all, laughter. | ||||
One Head Too Many |
| 1st Produced: | Theater 80, New York City | 2004 | ||
| Company: | Untitled Theater Company #61 and Parker Gainesville | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Runs 40 minutes. Produced as part of the Off-Broadway show, "Fairy Tales of the Absurd" | ||||
Synopsis: A play about a Princess from a different planet, who falls in love with her second head | ||||
One-Eyed Moses and the Churning Red Sea |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||
| Company: | Untitled Theater Company #61 and Parker Gainesville | |||
| 1st Published: | Theater 61 Press | 2005 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | One Act | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Runs 15 minutes. Produced as part of the 24/7 festival. Published as part of the book "The Golem, Methuselah, and Shylock" | ||||
Synopsis: In ONE-EYED MOSES AND THE CHURNING RED SEA, Rabbi Tzipporah Finestein is having dreams that Moses is a pirate captain, battling Pharaoh on the high seas. Are they nightmares, or more? Two congregants may be the key to an answer | ||||
Possessed by a Rebellious Spirit |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||
| Company: | TADA | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||
| Genre: | teen one act | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Winner of TADA's award for plays written for teen actors. | ||||
Synopsis: POSSESSED BY A REBELLIOUS SPIRIT follows a teen by the name of Casey as she gets a little "visit" from her recently deceased grandmother. In an effort to grab just one more taste of reality, grandma gets a chance to see the world out of the eyes of her teenage granddaughter. In the process, Casey learns a lot she didn't know about her family history and herself. | ||||
Shylock, A |
| 1st Produced: | Theater 22, New York City | 1996 | ||
| Company: | Untitled Theater Company #61 | |||
| 1st Published: | Theater 61 Press | 2005 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Runs 90 minutes. Published as part of the book "The Golem, Methuselah, and Shylock." | ||||
Synopsis: Antonio says that Shylock was a capitalist. Jessica says that he was a Freudian nightmare. Tubal says he was a good Jew. Whom is Jacob Levy to believe? Perhaps Hamlet can guide him. Although this Hamlet seems to be a woman. In A SHYLOCK a mild mannered professor is taken on a tour of Shakespeare's Venice, as he tries to find his own answer to Shylock's legacy. | ||||
Strangers |
| 1st Produced: | Theater Five | 2005 | ||
| Company: | Untitled Theater Company #61 | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||
| Genre: | Short Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Runs 40 minutes. Produced as part of the NEUROfest, a festival of plays about neurological conditions. The addressed the condition of amnesia. | ||||
Synopsis: A man and a woman are in what seems to be a waiting room. Is it a doctor's waiting room? If so, what's wrong? | ||||
Unauthorized Magic in Oz |
| 1st Produced: | St. Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn, New York | 2005 | ||
| Company: | Great Small Works | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | 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 | |||
| Genre: | puppet | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Produced as part of the Toy Theater Festival | ||||
Synopsis: Based on the Oz novels of Edward Einhorn, the play tells the story of a boy living in Munchkin Country, whose mother and friend are both sorcerers, although they know it is against the law. But when Glinda the Good discovers their activities, they have a lot of explaining to do. | ||||