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JACOB JACOBS |
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Plays by Jacob Jacobs |
Horatio's Rise | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cell Theatre | 01 Dec 2010 | ||||
Company: | Theater Askew | |||||
| 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 | #122259 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | This is a special preview of a new work from Theatre Askew that examines the life of America's oft-cited but little-known success story, Horatio Alger. The latest in Theatre Askew's works-in-progress production program, Horatio's Rise continues the company's ongoing exploration of the intersections of queer culture with New York City history. This work reexamines the American myth of success by looking at the life and present-day influence of the man whose name and stories have become synonymous with the American ideal of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. After John, an inner-city high school teacher, catches one of his most promising students, Alberto, plagiarizing an American Lit term paper, he takes it upon himself to instill positive values in the young man by exposing him to the life and work of the Victorian boys' novelist, Horatio Alger. Under threat of expulsion, Alberto reluctantly begins reading Alger's most famous book, Ragged Dick, which comes to theatrical life before his eyes imbued with Askew's characteristic blend of camp theatricality and emotional honesty. Gradually, Alger's own fraught history with adolescent boys is revealed, and painful truths overwhelm the pleasures of fiction. Examining the delicate territory of a teacher/student relationship characterized by both eroticized control and a genuine desire to help a struggling teen, Horatio's Rise asks what ultimately constitutes a "success story" and who gets to tell it. | |||||
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| 1st Produced: | Billy Rose Theater, New York | 1970 | ||||
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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 | #69431 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music by Murray Rumshinsky; lyrics by Jacob Jacobs; book by H Kalmanov | |||||
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