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KAREN WEINBERG |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Karen Weinberg's other writing credits include contributing to the public radio show Eight Forty Eight, co-creating sketch comedy shows, and the one woman musical comedy Faker. She has lived in both Chicago and New York and has worked with the Neo-Futurists, Noble Fool, About Face and the Second City Skybox. She has also edited films and shows for the History Channel. www.karenweinberg.com
Plays by Karen Weinberg
44 Plays For 44 Presidents | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chicago, IL | 31 Jan 2002 | ||||
Company: | The Neo-Futurists | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51471 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/drama/experimental/political/historic | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 5 either (5-158 actors possible: 0-158 females, 0-158 males) | |||||
Notes: | by Andy Bayiates, Sean Benjamin, Genevra Gallo-Bayiates, Chloe Johnston, and Karen Weinberg | |||||
Synopsis: | 44 Plays For 44 Presidents is a chronological, biographical survey of the lives and presidencies of each of the 44 men who have held the office so far. Their mistakes and successes are celebrated by a company of actors who take turns donning a star-spangled coat that symbolizes the presidency. Beginning with George Washington's almost Eden-like perfection, the scenes shift frequently between the comic and the tragic, from Ben Franklin giving Thomas Jefferson a Borscht Belt-style roast, to the frank portrayal of William Henry Harrison's life as an "Indian slayer," and later the grim onset of the Civil War. Act II starts off the twentieth century with the assassination of William McKinley, moves through a Nixon-praising dance number, a George Bush Sr. mini-musical about dirty campaigning and arrives at a polarized America in both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama plays. Audience members consider their role in shaping the history they've just witnessed, as they are left to ponder where the presidency has gone since its fall from paradise. . .and where it will go next. | |||||
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