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Martin Zimmerman

MARTIN ZIMMERMAN  

 Nationality:    USA
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below is a list of Martin Zimmerman's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Foreign Tongue         Making of a Modern Folk Hero, The         Seven Spots on the Sun         Three Movements         White Tie Ball

Foreign Tongue

Synopsis:
Sometimes it's hard to find the write words.

Notes:
Finalist for Actor's Theatre of Louisville's Heideman Award.

1st Produced:

Company:
part of The Source festival

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Making of a Modern Folk Hero, The

Synopsis:
Most stories about a hero involve super powers, but The Making of a Modern Folk Hero features a would-be champion armed with little more than a ridiculous costume and righteous indignation. As unlikely as that may seem, both the hero and this play at the Source Festival achieve major success.
- dctheatrescene.com

Notes:
part of The Source festival

1st Produced:
Source, 1835 14th Street NW, Washington, DC    Jun 2011

Company:
-

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Music:
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Genre:
70 min play

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Seven Spots on the Sun

Synopsis:
The village of San Isidro has been without its doctor for eighteen months. Moises has remained a recluse, refusing to even look at a patient, since the day the army took his wife away during the country's civil war. But when a mysterious plague begins to ravage the countryside around San Isidro, Moises discovers he has the power to heal with the touch of his hand, and he is forced to confront his past and the violence that tore the village apart.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Company:
Ignition Festival

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
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Three Movements

Synopsis:
Based on the life of ballet legend George Balanchine, Three Movements follows a fictional choreographer, Alex, as he nurses polio-stricken Sonia, his wife and his greatest dancer. Unable to face the reality that she will never dance again, he convinces himself that he can save his muse. When he becomes frustrated with her lack of progress, though, he leaves her to pursue a promising young dancer, Lindsay. The play examines the complex relationship between choreographer and dancer, the power of eroticism in art, and how people choose (or refuse) to confront illness and the aging process
- press release

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Company:
Heiress Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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White Tie Ball

Synopsis:
After being elected the first Latino Pima County Attorney in half a century, Edward Moreno's bond with his brother Beto is the strongest it has been in years. But when one of Beto's former friends kills an on-duty police officer as she breaks into the friend's home under questionable circumstances, Edward has to prosecute the case. The decisions Edward faces about what charges to pursue not only put his career in jeopardy; they also re-ignite long-suppressed tensions between Edward and Beto, who share the same parents but not the same skin color.

Notes:
Winner of the National Play Network's 2010 Smith Prize. Finalist for the Alliance Theatre's 2010 Kendeda Competition. Developed At the Kennedy Center's MFA Playwrights Workshop.

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Company:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Apart from very popular and world touring productions, many performing arts events are largely forgotten about in a matter of months. Traces may remain in various collections, but few collecting agencies, such as libraries, catalogue each flyer or program individually. Hence, unless one knows that an event took place at a certain time in a certain place, tracking down such an event as part of a research project is often a matter of chance. Where research needs to be carried out on high profile and well-documented productions only, this is not a problem. However, both the historian and the analyst will attest that the cultural, political, or sociological context in which a performing arts event takes place is also of major importance, as are the other events that took place in close proximity, either in place or time. A good overview of such productions provides us with a 'social document' that can greatly enhance cultural studies in ways that extend far beyond the narrow confines of theatre history. For instance, data such as this can be used to monitor the health of communities, particularly when used in association with data obtained from other social science disciplines. When one researches a particular playwright one might want to know about all the productions of plays by that author; if one wants to investigate what choices a particular audience had over a period of history and compare this to, say, an ethnic breakdown of the population, one would need to know broadly all the events that took place during that time. If one wanted to do a statistical analysis on the shift in popularity of a genre over one or more generations, it is important to have knowledge of most of the relevant major and minor performance events that took place. In this context, issues of aesthetic quality and the professionalism of a production - which will of course have an impact on such studies - are not the determining factors when deciding to include or exclude events, since all events are the raw material for such research.