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JAN HARTMAN
(1938 - 2006)Nationality: USA
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Literary Agent: Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency
Jan Hartman was born in Stockholm, and became a naturalised U.S. citizen. He also retained his father's German citizenship a privilege granted to individuals, like his father, who were deprived of their citizenship because of the Nuremberg race laws.
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Abelard and Heliose Every Year At the Carnival Flatboatman Fragments Of A Last Judgement Samuel Hoopes Reading From His Own WorksAbelard and Heliose
Synopsis:
The doomed affair between Abelard and one of his students Heloise
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Music by Robin Ward; lyrics and book Jan Hartman
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City Center Theatre, New York 31 May 1984
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Top of PageEvery Year At the Carnival
Synopsis:
Set at Carnival time in a Latin American country, unnamed, but resembling Brazil. a German refugee, Hans-erik Franck, decides to attend the celebration that takes place annually in the home of his employer, Maribar. the people at the party have been curious for years about Hans-erik's association with Nazi Germany. Tonight they plan to find out exactly what his association with the Third Reich was. as they find out more about Hans-erik, they become more and more sadistic toward him, until ultimately they put him on trial, in an informal and improvised way. In mock justice they pretend to sentence him to death. Hans-erik, who in the course of the evening has come to know the party-goers well, sees that in punishing him they are duplicating the slide into corruption that he experienced as a Nazi. He asks for a moment alone. In order to spare the masqueraders the same crimes of betrayal and murder he committed, Hans-erik hangs himself. When the party-goers discover the corpse, they are horrified. It is a sad legend that every year on the morning after Carnival a corpse is found on the beach. Now they know the origins of this corpse. the play ends as the masqueraders, in mask and costume, bear the corpse of Hans-erik to the beach, to be discovered according to custom, when the sun rises.
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Dramatists Play Service, NY, -
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Play/Drama
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Male: 5 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageFlatboatman
Synopsis:
the action begins as the young abe Lincoln arrives in New Salem, Illinois, having decided to leave his life on the river to clerk in the general store. abe's physical strength and humorous stories soon impress the townspeople, and he becomes a hero when he thrashes the local bullies. then romance blossoms when he meets the lovely anne Rutledge, and his political career begins when the town leaders persuade him to run for the state legislature. But anne sickens and dies, and abe's rival wins the election, and a saddened Lincoln turns back to his books and the arduous task of teaching himself the law. In his second try as a candidate, however, abe wins the day, and as the play ends he is carried off on the shoulders of his supporters, ready to depart for Springfield and the memorable, fateful years which the future would bring.
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Genre:
Drama One act
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Male: 6 Female: 2 Other: 1 boy, plus many bits for men and women
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Top of PageFragments Of A Last Judgement
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Top of PageSamuel Hoopes Reading From His Own Works
Synopsis:
moving, perceptive, sometimes amusing, sometimes bizarre monologue in which an aging writer reads from the singular works which are his life and his epitaph
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Dramatists Play Service, NY, -
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Drama One act
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Male: 1 Female: - Other: -
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