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MARINA SHRON |
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Marina is a recipient of James Thurber Fellowship in Playwriting, Jerome Fellowship in Playwriting, NYFA Fellowship in Playwriting and other awards. Her plays include King of Rats (Soho Rep, 1997), Christina (Soho Rep, 1998), Time and the Beast, Mitya's Ordeal (Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab) and To Love in Another Language (Here, Soho Rep, New Georges). She is an author of The Silent Love of the Fish (aired on PBS in August 2003; Best Short Film Award at the Hamptons International Film Festival 2000). She co-authored (with Dennis Shasha) Red Blues (Holmes and Maier, 2002). Her other screenplays include Dreaming of You (commissioned by Derek McKane productions) and Virgin (finalist for the American Gem short script competition). Marina teaches dramatic writing at The New School University and Montclair State University. She is a recipient of a 2005 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award for lecture and research in Russia and Germany.
Plays by Marina Shron
Christina | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #63261 | |||
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Genre: | dark comedy Comedy | |||||
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Synopsis: | Lynn and Joe are a wealthy infertile couple desperate to complete their family. Christina is 12 and her life is already a struggle for survival, a struggle in which she is both hunter and prey. When the three meet -- the sparks fly, and the monster family is born. | |||||
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Day Four | ||
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| 1st Published: | Plots Theatre Magazine, 1992 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #63262 | |||
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King of Rats | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Georges, Soho Rep, New York, USA | 1998 | ||||
Company: | New Georges, Soho Rep, New York, USA | |||||
| 1st Published: | Baltic Seasons Theatre magazine, St.Petersburg, Russia, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #49923 | |||
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Genre: | Passion Play Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1 | |||||
Notes: | Maternity structures the play. . .Grotesquery marks both words and emotions.The language, itself, is an attempt to experience catharsis resulting often instead in declarations of war -- this chronic failure creates comedy. However, the traditional comedic ending, matrimony and a birth, brings no comedic relief. The comedy dies, giving birth to a new cycle of torment and hope. | |||||
Synopsis: | A Boy, 10 years old, fat and clumsy, observes life in the house, which he calls "a living ball with breathing walls". His Father lost his first wife, who gave birth to his son, but doesn't seem to remember her. His new wife, Lena, the boy's stepmother, is suspicious of her love for her husband. She cooks meat, then beans, cares for her husband's dying but still lustful father. When the Old Man finally dies, Lena leaves the house. The Father replaces her with another woman who emanates underneath a pile of rags. The Old Man comes back to life just to demand more food on his plate at the dinner table. The boy flirts with a girl who is becoming a full-grown woman in front of his eyes. The lustful Old Man never dies again. Lena gives birth to a child and comes back to the house on the day of her husband's wedding. . . | |||||
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Mitya's Ordeal | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lincoln Center Theatre "Brothers Karamazov" festival | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Lincoln Center Theatre Directors' Lab, Peculiar Works Company, NY | |||||
| 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 | #63260 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 2 | |||||
Notes: | from Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov | |||||
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Silent Love of the Fish, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Row (Alice's Fourth Floor), NY | 1994 | ||||
Company: | Theatre Row, Soho Rep, Here, Workhouse, New Georges, New York, | |||||
| 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 | #63259 | |||
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Genre: | Triptych (3 short plays) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Time And The Beast | ||
| 1st Produced: | House of Candles, New York | 1998 | ||||
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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 | #63258 | |||
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Genre: | Lyrical epic Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1 | |||||
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Synopsis: | The play is a dramatic exploration of myth, history and individual desire. Inspired partly by the biblical story of Jacob and the sisters Rachel and Leah who became his wives, it also visits 1918 Ukraine and 1943 Germany. The characters mature in History as History itself comes of age. | |||||
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