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IRA HAUPTMAN |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Ira Hauptman is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. His plays include Private Messiah at the Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theatre and at Moving Arts, both in Los Angeles; Monument Valley, read by A.S.K. Theatre Projects; Cinema of the Year Zeroat the Manhattan Theatre Club; Walkmanand The Fall of Entyrondelphiacocomworld, both at FirstStage in Hollywood. Mr. Hauptman has written for Partisan Review, The New Republic, Parabasis and other magazines. He teaches at Queens College.
Plays by Ira Hauptman
Godot, Act 3 | ||
| 1st Produced: | Producers Club Grand Theatre, 358 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036 >>> | Jul 2010 | ||||
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| 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 | #114901 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of International CringeFest '10 | |||||
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Partition | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ensemble Studio Theatre (staged reading) (New York, NY, United States) | 2002 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61312 | |||
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Genre: | 140-145 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 4 males, 1 female (5-6 actors possible: 4-5 males, exactly 1 female) | |||||
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Synopsis: | Two geniuses. Two worlds. One maddening riddle. In 1913, a young, self-taught mathematical genius in India named Srinivasa Ramanujan is invited to England to work with G. H. Hardy, a Cambridge professor. But just as mathematics draws these two men from vastly different cultures together, it also possesses the power to destroy them. A riveting fantasy based on real events. | |||||
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Starry Messenger | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater for the New City | 27 Jan 2011 | ||||
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| 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 | #124203 | |||
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Genre: | 90 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | "Starry Messenger" was one of Galileo's most revolutionary works. It was the first scientific paper about the universe as seen through a telescope, and contained confounding ideas about the moon, stars and planets. This new play of the same name is by Ira Hauptman, and is a modern retelling of Galileo's resistance and ultimate capitulation to the Inquisition over his support of the Copernican theory of the earth's rotation. There is ample drama in the history of Galileo's famous recantation of his belief that the earth moves. It's rumored that even after Galileo swore his recantation, he muttered "But still it moves." Hauptman's seven character play is unique in that it traces the effects of Galileo's ordeals on his familyhis son and two daughtersand his children's role in his decision to renounce his discoveries. Notions of science, faith, demons, madness, and self-sacrifice are raised and overturned. As Cardinals Borgia and Zacchia negotiate with Galileo over his recantation, we are also afforded a close look at the process of reconciling new science with the power structurea clash that we are mindful of in our present-day conflicts over evolution and global warming. | |||||
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