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Benjamin R Barber

BENJAMIN R BARBER

  (1939 - 2017)

Nationality:    USA
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Benjamin R Barber's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Benjamin R Barber's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

        Bust, The         Delly's Oracle         Doors         Fightsong         Home And the River         Journeys: A Musical Myth         Making Kaspar         People's Heart, The         Winning


Bust, The

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1st Produced:
Equity Showcase, NYC    

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Delly's Oracle

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Doors

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treating with ironies of fear and death in a New York apartment besieged more by hysteria than real saris (Front Door) and in a Slightly demented purgatory where present waiting is Shadowed by past history for several characters who seem unready for either Paradise or Hades (Peter's Door).

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Front Door & Peter's Door

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Equity Showcase, NYC    

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Genre:
Two 1 acts and a curtain raiser One act

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Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Fightsong

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Gene Frankel Theatre, New York     1975

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Musical

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Home And the River

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music by George Quincy

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Genre:
Opera/Music theatre Opera

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Journeys: A Musical Myth

Synopsis:
a musical allegory using an ensemble of 8 to 12 to suggest in music, dance and narrative the human journey from village innocence to urban anarchy - - . and back again.

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in collaboration with Martin Best. Recorded As Knight on the Road, eMI, London

1st Produced:
Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Nh    

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Making Kaspar

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written by Benjamin Barber And Leah Kreutzer

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People's Heart, The

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Theater 3, Of F Of F Broadway    

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Winning

Synopsis:
based on the college days of an American loser/winner who will one day become President of the United States. an exploration of the darker side of "making it" in America. Set in the Depression, on a small college campus, the play focuses on football, student politics and winning - a mirror of America.

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music John Diffy

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Equity Showcase, NYC    

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Genre:
Musical/ comi-tragedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  chorus

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