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Arthur Sainer

ARTHUR SAINER

  (1924 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Anne Edelstein Literary Agency  

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below is a list of Arthur Sainer's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         After the Baal-Shem Tov         Bitch of Waverly Place, The         Blind Angel, The         Boat Sun Cavern         Bombflower, The         Carol in Winter Sunlight         Celebration, The: Jooz/Guns/Movies/ the Abyss         Charley Chestnut Rides the IRT         Children's Army Is Late, The         Day Old Bread: the Worst Good Time I Ever Had         Day Speaks But Cannot Weep, The         Game of the Eye, The         Go Children Slowly         God Wants What Men Want         I Hear It Kissing Me, Ladies         I Piece Smash         Images Of the Coming Dead         Noses         Om Service, The         OM: A Sharing Service         Rich Man, Poor Man Play, The         Spring Offensive, The         Sunday Childhood Journeys to Nobody at Home         Thing Itself, The         Untitled Chase         Van Gogh         Witnesses

After the Baal-Shem Tov

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New York    1979

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Bitch of Waverly Place, The

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New York    1964

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Blind Angel, The

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New York    1965

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Boat Sun Cavern

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music by George Prideaux And Mark Hardwick

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Bennington, Vermont    1969

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Bombflower, The

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New York    1966

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Carol in Winter Sunlight

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music by George Prideaux

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New York    1977

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Celebration, The: Jooz/Guns/Movies/ the Abyss

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An epic and sometimes comic history of the Jews, shifting back and forth from Biblical times (Abraham and Isaac, Moses, Pharaoh and Mrs. Pharaoh, Jonah) to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: a Polish village, the Lower East Side, the Warsaw Ghetto, contemporary Manhattan. Focuses on Jim, a writer, his estranged wife Lillian, a demonic movie producer with whom Jim works, and Grampa who comes from the old world and becomes a butcher on the Lower East Side. there are a number of original songs.

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1st Produced:
New York    1972

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Epic

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Charley Chestnut Rides the IRT

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Structured like a piece of popular entertainment: songs, puppets, parodies of movies. Charley's a subway conductor, night shift on the I.R.T. Typical night: Charley's fight with middle-aged scavenger who wants Charley's Daily News; silent dialogue with blonde in whisky ad; Graffiti Kid who sprays car and sometimes passengers. . - Typical day at home: Mary doing housework, Ella doing homework. But a visit to the doctor - and Charley gets the death warrant. Rare blood disease? We're never told. How long? Months. What's Charley feeling? Cheated. Through poker-playing scenes with his buddies at the local garage, family scenes and strange subway encounters, grotesque, sometimes comic scenes, we see Charley struggling to regain control of his life or at least understand what's happening. At one point there's a musical recreation of the '39 World's Fair, when Charley and Mary were young lovers.

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1st Produced:
New York    1975

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National Library of Scotland (1974) ref: Traverse - Acc.10577/13

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Children's Army Is Late, The

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Story of David, experimental filmmaker, his wife Carol, daughter Kate and their dog Demeter, living in a rural area, domestic life set against re-enactment of myths and legends that involve Hector and Achilles, the Goddess Diana, the Drowned Man, and agatnst other strange figures: Man with the Suitcase, comic figures of Mushky and Milly. David wants to do documentary footage about an old man, but the first old man he finds dies, and the second old man, a Mr. Edison, dies after David has done much talking with and filming of him. the dog Demeter uncovers the dead Edison who then takes David on a fantastic tour of the Chamber of the Dead. Includes a number of lyrical songs, as well as comic songs like "the 8th Street Rag."

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Bronxville, New York    1967

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Day Old Bread: the Worst Good Time I Ever Had

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New York    1976

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Day Speaks But Cannot Weep, The

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Game of the Eye, The

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Bronxville, New York    1964

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Go Children Slowly

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New York    1973

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God Wants What Men Want

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New York    1966

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I Hear It Kissing Me, Ladies

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New York    1970

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I Piece Smash

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New York    1970

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in "the Scene/2", the Smith/New Egypt, New York, 1974   -

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Images Of the Coming Dead

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New York    1971

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Noses

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New York    1967

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Om Service, The

Synopsis:
A ritual of poetry, movement, words and music for a congregation of people gathered for a spiritual purpose.

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Written by Julie Portman And Arthur Sainer, music by Phil Corner; choreography by Elizabeth Martin

1st Produced:
Arlington Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts    1968

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Theatre Workshop, Boston

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ritual One Act

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OM: A Sharing Service

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Boston    1968

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Rich Man, Poor Man Play, The

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music by David Tice And Paul Dyer

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New York    1976

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Spring Offensive, The

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about the Weatherman cell that ended with a townhouse explosion

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Sunday Childhood Journeys to Nobody at Home

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New York    1980

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Thing Itself, The

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Minneapolis    1967

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in "Playwrights for Tomorrow 6, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1969   -

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Untitled Chase

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New York    1965

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Van Gogh

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New York    1970

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Witnesses

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New York    1977

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