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Joanna Halpert Kraus

JOANNA HALPERT KRAUS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Joanna Halpert Kraus's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Joanna Halpert Kraus's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Angel In the Night, The         Christabel and the Amazing Pedal Power Challenge         Circus Home         Fool of the World         Ice Wolf, The         Me2         Mean To Be Free: A Flight North On The Underground Railroad         Ms Courageous: Women Of Science         Remember My Name         Secrets         Shaggy Dog Murder Trial, The         Sunday Gold

Angel In the Night, The

Angel In the Night, The
1942. When a Jewish family asks for help Polish Catholic teenager Marysia hides them. She looks after them for two years until she is betrayed to the Nazis. Marysia is tortured but does not give away the hiding place. as the Russians advance a Polish guard helps her escape

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1st Produced:
California Stage Company, Sacramento, California    

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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  1 girl

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Christabel and the Amazing Pedal Power Challenge

Christabel and the Amazing Pedal Power Challenge
Fourteen year old Christabel working backstage on the school play falls from a twenty foot ladder. She is paralysed from the waist down. She believes her life is over. Bud her physiotherapist has made a pedal car. He encourages her to enter the Pedal Power Challenge with it. Her experiences in the race show her that she does have a life

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Genre:
Youth play

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  1 either sex; extras

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Circus Home

Synopsis:
Strife in a circus family

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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  2 children

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Fool of the World

Fool of the World
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1st Published:
Anchorage Press 1987   978-0876022702

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Genre:
Childrens play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Ice Wolf, The

Ice Wolf, The
a story of prejudice and eventual redemption. a fair haired eskimo girl is driven out of her village by superstition and misunderstanding. Her transformation into a wolf compels her people into an ultimate realization
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1st Published:
in "the New Woman's theatre", Vintage Books, New York, 1977   978-0394722061

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Male:  4            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Me2

Synopsis:
When two 8th graders from opposite parts of the country accidentally meet, they discover they are identical twins. But there's one big difference between them. One excels in math. The other does not.

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1st Produced:
[reading] Noorda Regional theatre Center for Children & Youth. Orem, UT     05 Mar 2016

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Mean To Be Free: A Flight North On The Underground Railroad

Synopsis:
The story of slaves in the South escaping to the North

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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Ms Courageous: Women Of Science

Synopsis:
Marie Curie and the discovery of radium. Elizabeth Blackwell the first American woman doctor with a medical degree

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Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Remember My Name

Synopsis:
a young girl's survival in wartime France and the courage of those who protect her from the Nazi holocaust

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1989   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Secrets

Synopsis:
Lisa's parents had always intended to tell her she was adopted. One day when she was fourteen she got a telephone call from her birth mother

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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Genre:
Youth play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Shaggy Dog Murder Trial, The

Shaggy Dog Murder Trial, The
In upstate New York 1936 a dog is put on trial for drowning a boy.

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1st Published:
Anchorage Press   978-0876022740

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Genre:
Youth play

Parts:
Male:  42096            Female:  42127            Other:  1 either sex; extras

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Sunday Gold

Sunday Gold
Two young girls working in a gold mine in 1840s California. One is white and one black

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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Genre:
Youth play

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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