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DAVID PINSKI (1872 - 1959) |
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Nationality: Russian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Playwright David Pinski (1872-1959) was a Russian-born playwright and novelist. He was one of Yiddish theatres most notable dramatists, as well as one of its most prolific. During the course of his lifetime, he wrote over sixty plays including The Last Jew, or The Zvi Family, and The Eternal Jew. He also wrote the novel The House of Noah Edon. Having grown up in a cosmopolitan family in Moscow, Pinski lived in Switzerland, Vienna and Berlin before emigrating to America in 1899, where he lived for fifty years before moving to Israel in 1949. In America, he was an active member of Jewish cultural and political life, and was president of the Jewish National Workers Alliance from 1920 to 1922, and president of the Jewish Culture Society from 1930 to 1953.
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by David Pinski
Professor Brenner | ||
| 1st Produced: | 01 Nov 2015 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #179699 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation 75 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - David Pinski | |||||
Synopsis: | Professor Arthur Brenner has dedicated his life to the pursuit of his career. At 61 hes established himself as a painter of renown. But his existence is shaken to its core when he meets an adoring young woman some forty years his junior and experiences a feeling hes never known before- love. David Pinskis early twentieth century play examines the nature of love and the high price of indecision and fear upon a life deferred. | |||||
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Treasure | ||
| 1st Produced: | Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED >>> | 20 Oct 2015 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1783199990 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #176180 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 19 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | 3 boys | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - David Pinski, adaptation by Colin Chambers, from a translation by Ludwig Lewisohn. Treasure, or Der Oytser, is a comic masterpiece of Yiddish theatre. Written in 1906 and first performed in 1912, it remained popular in the Yiddish repertoire until the 1940s: most notably, Max Reinhardt's production in Germany in 1919, an English-language version on Broadway in 1920, as well as a production staged in the Vilna Ghetto in 1943. | |||||
| Oh, it's a funny sensation, having money in your pocket, I can tell you. . .Money warms you. If you knew how warm and safe I feel. Like a new creature in a new skin. re for the first time in the UK - Treasure by David Pinski. Tille is the poor gravedigger's daughter, with nothing in the world except a head full of dreams. Things look set to stay that way, until the day her brother returns from the graveyard with a pile of gold coins, and Tille is faced with a choice. She can hand in the money and go back to a life of drudgery, or she can use it to turn the world upside down. As the village community disintegrates into chaos and descends on the cemetery in search of gold, Tille and her family must use all their wits to stay one step ahead of those who want their share of the treasure. A timeless fable that digs down into the depths of our folly and greed and, in the midst of the chaos, celebrates one woman's ingenuity. | |||||
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