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Todd Bash

TODD BASH  

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Todd Bash is an avant-garde playwright from Los Angeles, California. He has written more than twenty works for the theatre, many performed and published, as well as prose, poetry and film projects. He is also the creator of numerous collages, art objects and musical experiments. His early writing features a gritty, realistic style, calling to mind the works of David Mamet and David Rabe, as well as British playwright Harold Pinter. Plays from this period include The Winning Number, Concrete and Blackouts . By the late 1980s, Bash's approach changed radically, moving further and further into avant-garde territory. Often shattering the conventions of traditional theatre, and featuring dream-like imagery, his current style recalls the experiments of the Paris Surrealists during the 1920s, as well as writers such as alfred Jarry, Bertolt Brecht and Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz. among his plays from this period are Das Nachtgespenst, Goldring, Nachthunde and The Final Thoughts Of Stanislaw Bashkiewicz. His short opera libretto Seehunde was set to music by Japanese born composer Shigeru Kan-no. Bash has worked with theatre companies in Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia, as well as collaborations with artists from around the world. His writing has appeared in numerous periodicals, including Lost and Found Times, Neotrope and Gestalten, as well as collections published by Broken Boulder Press and Dog Ear Publishing. His most recent collection of plays is Sanctus Fumigaci.

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below is a list of Todd Bash's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Blackouts         Concrete         Das Nachtgespenst         Final Thoughts Of Stanislaw Bashkiewicz         Goldring         Last Of The Living Surrealists, The         Mondvogel         Nachthunde         Seehunde         Winning Number, The

Blackouts

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Concrete

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Das Nachtgespenst

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Dream-like love story, featuring appearances by Luis Bunuel, Paul Eluard and Bertolt Brecht.

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in Sanctus Fumigaci Collected Works Volume 2: Short Plays, Dog Ear Publishing, LLC (May 7, 2007)   978--1598582451

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surrealist love story

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Final Thoughts Of Stanislaw Bashkiewicz

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avant-garde performance piece about suicide.

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Peachtree Theatre    1990

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avant-garde Play/Drama

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Goldring

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Epic parable play about surrealist fan salesman out to change the world.

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Last Of The Living Surrealists, The

Todd Bash
The final days of surrealist dancers Yoni and Moni.

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The Little Theatre    1987

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avant-garde movement piece Piece

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Mondvogel

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Musiktheater

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Nachthunde

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Dream-like work exploring the longing for youth.

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Musiktheater

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Seehunde

Todd Bash
Dream-like modern opera.

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Winning Number, The

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Character-study, in the spirit of David Mamet, set in a Southern California barber shop.

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East Street Theater    1985

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comedy/drama Play/Drama

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