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PETER BASCH (1956 - )
Nationality: USA / Canadaemail: Click here to contact Website: Click here
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Born in NYC, Peter attended the Lycee Francais de New York, then Columbia College, where he majored in Physics and spent time with Barnard Gilbert & Sullivan and the Columbia Players. He started pursuing acting and eventually joined the Manhattan Punch Line and ensemble Studio Theatre. On the strength of the New York Times review of his play, english (It's Where the Words are), Peter moved to Los Angeles where he met his wife, ellen Sandler.
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Art Has Nothing To Tell Us About Science English (It's Where The Words Are) MomArt Has Nothing To Tell Us About Science
Synopsis:
art is a grad student in Physics at an Ivy League college, and his advisor is the very old, reclusive, but recently Nobel Prize winning, physicist, Prof. Reginald Peartree. Dawn studies Performance art and wants to do a "science" piece based on Peartree's work. Peartree is only too happy to have this attractive young woman pay attention to him - he's suddenly got groupies! art commits the faux pas of telling Dawn that her piece is full of hot air, that physics is hard and takes years. Peartree becomes enraged, decides that art can go try studying somewhere else, and dies. Maybe art and Dawn have a future?
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1st Produced:
eST First Light Festival, NYC 1998
Organisations:
ensemble Studio Theatre
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy One act
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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Synopsis:
Joey and Suzy are trapped in a kitchen-sink meloDrama world, part Playhouse 90, part Honeymooners, part any play about inarticulate working class mooks (but written by highly articulate upper class folk). Joey struggles to express the inexpressible, and Suzy provides him with the words - "aviary," "credenza," and "putrescence," among others. Joey may not have the words, but he knows everything about Suzy - and many things about the universe (the mass of the neutrino, the true religion, etc.). Joey confesses his greatest fear, that he is not worthy of her love, but she lays those fears to rest.
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ensemble Studio Theatre
1st Published:
Smith & Kraus (1998) -
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Genre:
Comedy One act
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageMom
Synopsis:
Howard, mid 40s, hasn't spoken to his widowed mom in years, but suddenly gets a call from the hospital - she's on her deathbed. Howard goes to the old apartment where he grew up, only to meet up with his childhood playmate, Mickey, who has lived downstairs his whole life. Mickey has become close to Howard's mom over the past years. Mickey and Howard go over their childhoods, their mothers, their impending old age, and money. Howard reveals to Mickey that his mom has just died, and they mourn together, and rediscover their old friendship.
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1st Produced:
Miles Memorial Playhouse, Santa Monica Ca 2009
Organisations:
eST-La
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: - Other: -
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