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Mother Courage And Her Children
Myth Cycle, The: Ahraihsak
Play on War, A

	RUBEN POLENDO
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Plays by Ruben Polendo

Medea

1st Produced:		Access Theatre, 380 Broadway, 4th floor, New York, NY 10013 >>>			13 May 2010
Company:		Theater Mitu
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	#114490
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Genre:		Adaptation
Parts:		Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:		-
Notes:		-
Synopsis:		In this ancient Greek classic, Medea-jilted bride of the Greek hero Jason-confronts betrayal, sorrow, passion, love, and ultimately death in her quest for vengeance. Conceived and directed by Producing Artistic Director Ruben Polendo, the company engages in a violent adaptation that examines the play's perceptions of gender by presenting the famed villain Medea as a man and her paramour, Jason, as a woman. - nytheatre.com
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Moonchild

1st Produced:		Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program			2007
Company:		n/a
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	#62368
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Genre:		Play/Drama
Parts:		Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:		-
Notes:		written by Ben Fox and Ruben Polendo
Synopsis:		n/a
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Mother Courage And Her Children

1st Produced:		- - -			2010
Company:		National Asian American Theatre Company
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	#108701
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Genre:		Translation
Parts:		Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:		-
Notes:		Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht
Synopsis:		n/a
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Myth Cycle, The: Ahraihsak

1st Produced:		CSV Cultural Center, NY			2006
Company:		Theater Mitu
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	#46676
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Genre:		Pageant
Parts:		Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:		10 actors
Notes:		created by members of Theater Mitu.
Synopsis:		featuring puppetry, masks, movement, and music, telling the tale of a powerful leader driven to extreme violence to avenge his family treachery. Ahraihsak is an original myth, the tale of a leader exiled by his brother's treachery and driven into a vengeful, violent rage by the news of his love's death. He conquers vast territory and strikes fear into a continent as he brutalizes kings and commoners alike. Amidst this bloody campaign, he must confront the effects of his brutal drive and choose whether to lead by wisdom or by cruelty
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Play on War, A

1st Produced:		Connelly Theatre, 220 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10009 >>>			16 Feb 2010
Company:		National Asian American Theatre Company
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	#110967
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Genre:		dark comedy
Parts:		Male		5	Female	3
Parts other:		-
Notes:		written by Jenny Connell and Ruben Polendo
Synopsis:		This world-premiere play, inspired by Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, incorporates abstractions of musical theatre, Arabic clowning, and Peking opera to create a ferocious comedy about a war-torn landscape populated by characters on bicycles, all desperate to survive - nytheatre.com
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