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MARK BELSON (1947 - )
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Mark Belson is a Dramatists Guild member and former Harvard Graduate Prize Fellow. His essays and translations of contemporary Asian fiction have appeared in Korea Journal, The Korea Herald and Flowers of Fire: Twentieth-Century Korean Stories, an anthology published by the University Press of Hawaii in 1974. His published plays are The Jaded Marsyas (1976) and Silent Amidah (1999). He was awarded a grant in 1981 by the Council for the Arts at MIT for a workshop production of The Jaded Marsyas, a character study of a psychiatrist whose professional ethics are tested by a personal crisis. Silent Amidah, one of a select number of 25 scripts chosen for the 1992 Arizona Theatre Company New Play Reading Series, recreates in real time (90 intermissionless minutes) one Sabbath evening in the life of an Orthodox Jewish family in halting denial of an approaching yahrzeit memorial for a son whose lover they will meet that night for the first time. It is set in an early year of the AIDS pandemic. Flinker, a play now in development, is partially based on the life of young Holocaust diarist Moshe Flinker. Mark was also the host and producer of Homophobia in the Media and Society: One Life to Live and Beyond (1993), an MIT Educational Outreach Video Program distributed in association with MIT's Council for Primary and Secondary Education. He later hosted and produced A Handful of Bartlebys (1999/MITV), an exploration of five screen adaptations of Herman Melville's classic story.
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Jaded Marsyas, The Silent AmidahJaded Marsyas, The
A staff psychiatrist in a mental hospital meets with another doctor on the morning of his dismissal for insubordination. Torn between his conscience and the demands of society, he relates to his colleague what in his life has brought him to this moment. A two-character, 90-minute intermissionless one-act play.
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Subtitle: A Colloquy of Illusions
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IAP at MIT Jan 1981
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Exposition Press, Inc. (1976) 978-0682485593
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Top of PageSilent Amidah
As the first anniversary of an older son's passing approaches, an Orthodox Jewish family remains in denial, hesitant to memorialize him and silent. Unbeknownst to the family, a well-meaning relative has arranged for them to meet their late son's partner for the first time. The encounter will not go well. Silent Amidah is set in an early year of the AIDS pandemic.
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Subtitle: A Remembrance. The play may be performed in one act or two acts. Silent Amidah was one of a select number of 25 scripts considered for the 1992 Arizona Theatre Company New Play Reading Series.
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Seaview Press, 1999 174008001-7
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Drama. - - AIDS, one act
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Male: 4 Female: 1 Other: -
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