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BARRIE STAVIS (1906 - 2007) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: n/a |
With sadness, I share with you the news that Barrie Stavis, playwright, died in February, 2007, at the age of 100, still alert and writing. - Ben Stavis
Plays by Barrie Stavis
Banners of Steel | ||
| 1st Produced: | Carbondale, Illinois | 1962 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | A.S. Barnes, South Brunswick, New Jersey, 1967 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33133 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | aka Harper's Ferry | |||||
Synopsis: | John Brown adopts guerilla warfare to overthrow slavery. The raid fails and he is executed, but his truth marches on to victory | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Coat of Many Colours | ||
| 1st Produced: | Provo, Utah | 1966 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | A.S. Barnes, South Brunswick, New Jersey, 1968 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33134 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The biblical Joseph in Egypt helps establish human control over nature and gets enmeshed in court politics | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Galileo Galilei | ||
| 1st Produced: | Huntsville, Alabama | 1975 | ||||
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 | #33135 | |||
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Genre: | Oratorio | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music by Lee Hoiby, from play Lamp at Midnight by Stavis | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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House Of Shadows, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2003 | ||||
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 | #33136 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | People face complicated moral choices during cataclysmic social change. (France Aug. 1937). | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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In These Times | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1932 | ||||
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 | #33137 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Joe Hill | ||
| 1st Produced: | Berlin | 1970 | ||||
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 | #33138 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Opera libretto Opera | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music by Alan Bush, from play The Man Who Never Died by Stavis | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lamp at Midnight | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Stages, New York | 1947 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1948 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33139 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | one hour school and church version produced Chicago, 1972, Dramatic Publishing Company, 1974 | |||||
Synopsis: | Galileo challenges religious dogma with science and finds enormous resistance to the truth | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Man Who Never Died, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | St Paul | 1955 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Haven Press, New York, 1954 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33140 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Joe Hill confronts power by organizing a trade union and pays with his life | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Refuge | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1938 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1939 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33141 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | about the Spanish Civil War | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sun and I, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1933 | ||||
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 | #33142 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | revised version New York, 1937 | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Washington | ||
| 1st Produced: | Midland, Texas | 1976 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Dramatics", Cincinnati, Apriland May, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33143 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | aka The Raw Edge of Victory | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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