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Tony Barsha

TONY BARSHA  (1938 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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below is a list of Tony Barsha's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 10 Rounds Of Love         Aleph         American Champion, An         Amos & Ann         Dutch Schultz's Last Words         Forgotten American         Golem, The         Hawk, The         Pattern, The         Shares         Smash!         Stone         Sunshine Dream Dies In Hail Of Bullets         Testimonies Of A Rape & Killing         Tragedy Of Homer Sills, The         Trunk, The         Velvet Swing, The         Vicki Tapes, The         Vision: Dead Body/New Body

10 Rounds Of Love

Synopsis:
an updated version of "La Ronde" where couples make love and one of them moves on to a new lover.

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Genre:
2 act Comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Aleph

Synopsis:
aleph is a point in space where all points coincide. No two points can occupy the same space at the same time. an improvisation attempting to resolve these two statements.

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1st Produced:
Soho Arts Festival, NY    1970

Organisations:
Barsha/Gibson Prod.

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Genre:
Improv Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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American Champion, An

Synopsis:
a 13 year old chess prodigy falls in love with an older waitress and wants to give up chess and run off with her. His uncle/manager tries to stop them

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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Amos & Ann

Synopsis:
In 1960, amos, a wealthy builder, starts an affair with ann, a waitress. amos becomes seriously ill and ann nurses him back to health. amos now decided to date other women and become a beat poet. He befriends a young beat poetess, Mona. ann asks only that amos not tell her about his other women. amos tells her, in detail, about his other women. Fed up and angry, ann kills amos.

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1st Produced:
Wallenboyd, Los Angeles    1986

Organisations:
Pipeline

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Genre:
2 act Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Dutch Schultz's Last Words

Synopsis:
October, 1935. Dutch Schultz, the beer baron of the Bronx, and his henchmen are hiding out in New Jersey trying to avoid a court summons in New York. as they hang out, episodes from Dutch's life as a gangster are re-enacted, tracing his rise from bootlegging to control of restaurants and the numbers rackets. In the end, assassins burst in and shoot everyone. Dutch is taking to a hospital where, before he dies, he delivers a long rambling surreal monologue.

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Genre:
2 act Drama

Parts:
Male:  31            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Forgotten American

Synopsis:
a middle American man's family disintegrates as he rails against the changing times.

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1st Produced:
Theatre Genesis, New York    1970

Organisations:
Theatre Genesis

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Golem, The

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Organisations:
Mid-Westchester YM-YWHa

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Genre:
2 act Improv Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Hawk, The

Synopsis:
Four Victims visit a drug dealer. at first the dealer, the Hawk, is friendly, but becomes abusive and finally gives them an overdose. The Hawk is assisted by an invisible (to the Victims) Double. an Inspector and the Hawks supplier, the Dealer, also drop in.

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1st Produced:
Theatre Genesis, New York    1967

Organisations:
Theatre Genesis

1st Published:
Bobbs-Merrill, 1968   -

Music:
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Genre:
2 act Improv Comedy/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Pattern, The

Synopsis:
a man wakes up and views the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald on the television. He wakes his girl friend and tries to explain to her the pattern of events surrounding the killing of both Oswald and Kennedy. The girl friend has other plans.

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1st Produced:
Theatre Genesis, New York    1966

Organisations:
Theatre Genesis

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Genre:
comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Shares

Synopsis:
Four friends share a summer beachhouse near the Hamptons in New York. Two of them spend their time getting drunk, while the fiance of one of them swims in the ocean. another becomes involved with a neighbor's sister, which jeopardizes his relationship to his girl friend. a fifth friend shows up with a small boat an gets involved with the neighbor in a drug smuggling operation which ends in tragedy.

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Genre:
3 act Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Smash!

Synopsis:
a woman who likes to use the name Lois Lane meets a man named Clark Kent in a convenience store while both are buying comic books. The woman becomes convinced that the man might be Superman and when a robbery occurs, she tries to get him to stop the robbers.

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1st Produced:
Theatre Genesis, New York    1967

Organisations:
Theatre Genesis

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Genre:
comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Stone

Synopsis:
Greek gods return and debate the possible uses of the Philosopher's Stone, which an alchemist is expected to discover.

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La Mama

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Genre:
2 act Imrov Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Sunshine Dream Dies In Hail Of Bullets

Synopsis:
Two friends have moved from Ohio to live their dream of sunny days in La. Ralph is distraught because of his divorce from his wife. Harry is trying to help Ralph get himself together. Two young teenage girls from next door also try to assist Ralph. When Ralph's wife, Mildred, visits to tell him she's getting married again, Ralph's condition worsens. When Ralph finds out that Harry had slept with Mildred, he kills him. Ralph is in turn killed in a shoot out with police.

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Genre:
2 act Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Testimonies Of A Rape & Killing

Synopsis:
a retelling of Kurosawa's "Rashomon" set in the post apocalyptic future. a woman is raped and her husband killed, re-enacted through the eyes of four people.

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1st Produced:
Wallenboyd, Los Angeles    1987

Organisations:
Pipeline

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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Tragedy Of Homer Sills, The

Synopsis:
a factory worker's wife is killed and returns as a robot. The boss of the factory invites the worker and his robot/wife to dinner where the boss, his wife and "son", who is actually an old friend of the worker posing as the boss's son, entertains them. The dinner ends in the death of all during the retelling of a war story.

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Genre:
farce One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Trunk, The

Synopsis:
Two working stiffs are carrying a trunk. They stop to contemplate the contents of the trunk. One thinks it's a beautiful woman, the other all the material possessions he desires. In the end, they open the trunk and look inside

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1st Produced:
Theatre Genesis, New York    1966

Organisations:
Theatre Genesis

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Genre:
comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Velvet Swing, The

Synopsis:
In the early 1900's, Stanford White, a prominent architect starts an affair with a 16 year old show girl, Evelyn Nesbit. Harry K. Thaw, the son of a wealthy Pittsburg family, wants Evelyn for his wife. When Stanford White refuses to leave his wife and marry Evelyn, she marries Harry. Harry is obsessed with the fact that White deflowered Evelyn and kills him. Harry is sent to an asylum and Evelyn is left alone and broke.

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Genre:
2 act Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Vicki Tapes, The

Synopsis:
Vicki, the one time mistress of a wealthy and powerful man, is now forced to live in near poverty, sharing an apartment with a gay man, Marvin. She dwells on her past glory by viewing videotapes of her former patron engaging in S&M sessions with herself and others. When she seduces Marvin's gay lover, Marvin beats her to death. Marvin turns himself into the police and the gay lover contemplates what to do with the videotapes.

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Genre:
2 act Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Vision: Dead Body/New Body

Synopsis:
In the first part, visions of war, crime, drugs, corruption and death are enacted and improvised. The 2nd part utilizes a member of the audience to enact and improvise their vision of a new world.

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1st Produced:
Theatre Genesis, New York    1969

Organisations:
Theatre Genesis

1st Published:
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Genre:
Improv Ritual

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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