HOWARD GINSBERG   


To add a picture of Howard Ginsberg to this page, click on Contact Us, above
   Nationality:
American
   Literary Agent: *:
   Email:
   Website:
n/a

* If shown, click on the literary agent's name for full contact details and links to all the Playwrights they represent.

Plays by Howard Ginsberg

HOWARD GINSBERG
Murder In Paris
1st Produced:
Haymarket, Basingstoke
2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Top of Page
HOWARD GINSBERG
My Matisse
1st Produced:
Roman Eagle Lodge, Edinburgh
2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
7
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
It is a useful biographical device to show us Henri Matisse solely through the eyes of the women in his life: mother, wife, daughter and various muses/models/lovers. You could be cruel and say that what emerges is a cubist portrait of the artist, seeing as it was Picasso, co-inventor of cubism, who challenged Matisse throughout his life. What emerges in writer Howard Ginsberg's fine play is a life-long fight between the women for attention and ownership. The title appears over and over - 'My Matisse, Matisse et moi,' they say. In a relay race of domestic unrest we move from the garrets of Paris to the good life on the Côte d'Azur, and then the war, when an ageing, ill Matisse made anodyne broadcasts for the Vichy government. All the way through, the painter discarded the women once he had grown bored of painting them.
Jonathan Gibbs, Time Out London
Top of Page