Contemporary Plays by Jewish Writers
Popular plays addressing important topical issues will appeal to the increasing audience of play readers in the UK, USA and Israel.
Wide press coverage throughout key event with Jewish Book Week. Price: £9.99
Subject Classification: Play Collection Publication Date: 16/02/1998
ISBN 10: 952942623 ISBN 13: 2147483647
Paperback
Pages: 320
Format: 20.6 x 13 x 2 cm
Carole Braverman Carole Braverman won critical acclaim in UK and USA for her comedy The Yiddish Trojan Women.
Marion Baraitser Marion Baraitser is an Arts Council and BBC commissioned playwright, short story writer and editor. She founded Loki Books.
Anna Evans Anna Evans has been drawing comic strips since childhood. she has a Fine Arts degree from Elam, New Zealand and has had several solo exhibitions. She has been commissioned by Penguin Books.
Sonja Linden Sonja Linden is a playwright and editor
David Schneider David Schneider is a stand-up comic.
Joshua Sobol Joshua Sobol is one of Israel’s foremost playwrights whose play Ghetto was given an acclaimed Royal National Theatre production.
ReviewS:
'This is a very accessible
way of telling the Holocaust story to today's teenagers. It focuses
on young people doing what they always do whatever the circumstance:
flirting, bending the rules, helping each other out, smuggling in
illicit objects (in this case a collection of puppets that they
can express their underlying anxieties with) though they are experiencing
one of the twentieth century's most inhumane events. The black and
white pencil drawings are beautifully done and very sensitive, yet
with a cool edge deriving from today's best comic book illustration,
and there are a number of touches of humour as well.' Amazon
review, 2010
SUMMARY:
From Sobol to Schneider - a barn-breaking collection of five popular new plays of excellence from London, New York and Tel Aviv by award-winning Jewish writers, men and women published together for the first time in a single volume.
DESCRIPTION:
Carole Braverman (USA) The Yiddish Trojan Women London Weekend TV’s ‘Plays on Stage’ winner: In Brooklyn, 1980, a refugee and her three tough grand-daughters - a stand-up comic, a unionist and a teacher of Greek mythology - relive the Trojan tragedy armed with their Jewish sense of humour.
Marion Baraitser’s (UK) LOUIS/lui, the story of the twentieth century through the life and times of Louis Althusser and his Jewish companion. Film and sound score.
Sonja Linden ‘s (UK) The Strange Passenger by Edinburgh ‘Fringe First’ winner: the story of composer Victor Ullman’s life in Terezin ‘s ghetto.
David Schneider’s (UK) hilarious black comedy about a mixed marriage, The Eleventh Commandment.
Joshua Sobol’s (Israel) The Palestinian Girl - tangled Arab Israeli relations on a film set.
