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PAUL ZIMET |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Paul Zimet is the Artistic Director of the Talking Band. Music-theater works that he has written and directed include: Belize, The Parrot, Star Messengers, Bitterroot, Party Time, Black Milk Quartet, These works have premiered in New York City at La MaMa, E.T.C., The Flea Theater, and PS 122, and have toured in the United States, Italy, Canada, Chile, and Moscow. Paul received a 2003 Village Voice OBIE Award for his direction of The Talking Band production of Painted Snake in a Painted Chair, and also three OBIE Awards for his work with the Open Theater and the Winter Project, both directed by Joseph Chaikin.
Plays by Paul Zimet
Baron Bones | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | The Talking Band | |||||
| 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 | #123601 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An acrophobic poet is visited first by his Eastern European girlfriend and they talk about their differing views of Los Angeles. Then by a black shaman who sells him a potion | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Belize | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
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 | #71667 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music by Ellen Maddow; lyrics and book by Paul Zimet | |||||
Synopsis: | 18th Century - a Colonel in the British Army marries an African-American woman. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bitterroot | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | The Talking Band | |||||
| 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 | #104679 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Composer: Peter Gordon | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Black Milk Quartet | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ohio Theatre, New York | Feb 2000 | ||||
Company: | The Talking Band | |||||
| 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 | #123602 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Four unrelated stories. Actaeon is hunting when he accidentally sees Artemis bathing. She turns him into a stag and he is killed by his friends and dogs. A woman is having sexual relations with an unseen being - her husband and son try to save her. The owner of a chain of supermarkets can only find sexual happiness playing kinky games with his ex-stripper wife and her young lover. A man who had only ever been interested in books follows a young woman he has seen in the library | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Daily Drill | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | The Talking Band | |||||
| 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 | #123603 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A lecture on survival | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fata Morgana | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1991 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Theatre Communications Group, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74467 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | by Paul Zimet; Incidental music and songs by Harry Mann and Ellen Maddow | |||||
Synopsis: | A Cruise ship and an assortment of passengers. The lecherous explorer; the jazz musician and his manager wife; retired farmers; a dying woman and her scientist husband. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fern And Rose and A Perfect Life | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
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 | #93734 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Ellen Maddow, Paul Zimet and Rocky Bornstein | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Imminence | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
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 | #80267 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A new work by The Talking Band. Written and directed by Paul Zimet, composition by Peter Gordon and Ellen Maddow, video by Kit Fitzgerald | |||||
Synopsis: | follows three generations of a family in an exploration of time, and how it shapes our lives from the smallest human instant to the massive geotectonic cycles of the earth. Following the death of her mother, Simone takes her twenty year old daughter, on a cross-country car trip to visit her parents' first home in Coney Island. The narrative shifts between the past and present, not only through the generations of Simone's family, but also through the much longer scale of geological time. Fleeting moments of human interaction - an awkward wedding, a deathbed vigil, an unlikely romance between the family doctor and an eccentric friend - cross paths with the slow, relentless time of the earth itself. Through the prism of theater, dance, video, electronic and acoustic music, time slows, stops, bends and unravels. Kit Fitzgerald's blend of live and recorded video, in conjunction with Peter Gordon's electronic, amplified music capture the range and might of the inexorable forces of nature. The intimacy of human time is captured in the live acoustic music of Ellen Maddow and the choreography of Hilary Easton. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Life Simulator | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||||
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 | #91451 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | by Ellen Maddow / Paul Zimet. Composer: Ellen Maddow / Harry Mann | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Necklace, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ohio Theatre, NY | 2006 | ||||
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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 | #54347 | |||
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Genre: | Serial Mystery | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Lisa D'Amour, Ellen Maddow, Lizzie Olesker and Paul Zimet. Each episode will be a self-contained theater piece that can be appreciated by itself but each will also end in a 'cliff-hanger'. The four writers are working in the tradition of Dickens's serial novels, or television serials, but wish to combine the seductiveness of the form with the vividness, immediacy, and theatricality of live theater | |||||
Synopsis: | The Necklace is a new serial mystery in eight episodes from The Talking Band. This description is from the press release: "The Necklace is a drama set in a grand, decaying house on the edge of a moor. It is a house of endless rooms and hidden passageways: of basements, attics, and secret stairways. A house that is antiquated but equipped with up-to the minute technology--wireless modems on moss-covered desks. In this house of multiple realities--often hidden from one another--live a group of people whose identities and relationships unfold in surprising ways in each new episode. The house is a hub, a crossroads, and a battleground in a struggle for survival between generations; between old ways of doing business and the new global economics. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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New Cities | ||
| 1st Produced: | Williams College, Williamstown, MA | 1989 | ||||
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 | #74468 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Composer: Ellen Maddow & Harry Mann | |||||
Synopsis: | A string quartet is on a World tour. But the new places and people throw them off balance. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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New Islands Archipelago | ||
| 1st Produced: | 3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10006 >>> | 23 May 2010 | ||||
Company: | The Talking Band | |||||
| 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 | #114638 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | This is a new theatre piece from The Talking Band. New Islands Archipelago is at once a real-estate scheme, a tropical dream of new beginnings, and the accidental destination of the passengers and crew of the cruise ship, S.S. Azure. The action takes place on the ship's deck, within the various rooms of the ship, in the sea, and within the characters' dreams, (which are rendered on video). Each person who has embarked on the cruise longs for a change and, as the voyage progresses, the passengers begin to enter one another's dreams. Thrown together with strangers in increasingly unfamiliar surroundings, they find their lives propelled forward and unfolding in ways they hadn't imagined. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Parrot, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Flea Theatre, New York | 21 Jan 2004 | ||||
Company: | The Talking Band | |||||
| 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 | #123604 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by Ellen Maddow and Paul Zimet | |||||
Synopsis: | A parrot flies into Bella's room and tells her a tale about a Princess called Bella. The non too bright son of her mother's employer has decided to seduce Bella and inveigles himself into their household | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Radnevsky's Real Magic | ||
| 1st Produced: | 11 Oct 2009 | |||||
Company: | The Talking Band | |||||
| 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 | #104572 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Paul Zimet; conceived by Paul Zimet and Peter Samelson | |||||
Synopsis: | Legendary magician Anton Radnevsky (a.k.a. The Great Radnevsky) is returning to the New York stage for the first time in over three decades to perform his one-of-a-kind, bewildering and mystifying magic. The performance is fraught with emotion and meaning for the legendary magician. Thirty three years ago, Radnevsky disappeared from the city after an audience member died at a preview performance of his much-heralded magic show, 'Stories and Sorcery'. But this October, Radnevsky will return to the scene of that tragic performance and put on an even more spectacular show, an act he has been working on for half his life. Joined by protege Harry Telkhines, Radnevsky invites audiences into a world where reality and illusion blend, and where all is not what it seems. Together, master and apprentice weave a tapestry of story and illusion, music and image, tradition and innovation, in the search for what is truly magical | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Star Messengers | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | The Talking Band | |||||
| 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 | #104680 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Paul Zimet and Ellen Maddow | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | The Talking Band | |||||
| 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 | #123605 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Based on the book by John Berger | |||||
Synopsis: | Lucie Cabrol is born hideously disfigured. Her family nickname her "Cocadrille" - a mythical beast. When she dies she is transformed into a supernatural being | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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