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Michael Blankfort

MICHAEL BLANKFORT  

 Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Scott Meredith  


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

 Battle Hymn         Crime, The         Goodbye, I Guess         Karl And Arthur         Monique

Battle Hymn

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Federal Theatre, NYC; Chicago, IL    -

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Crime, The

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Workers Lab Theatre    -

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Goodbye, I Guess

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Broadway    -

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Karl And Arthur

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Marx, at sixty-one, troubled by lack of recognition, burdened by poverty, a sick wife, a daughter who wants to be an actress - a profession he condemns as useless - guilty over his long relationship with a mistress (a menage a trois) is confronted with the possibility of working out his theories in ethiopia brought to him by the quintessential bohemian, arthur Rimbaud. Marx's temptation after the death of his wife to pursue Rimbaud's offer, to make peace with his mistress and daughter, and mostly himself, and to accept his daughter's relationship with the wild, drug-addicted poet is at the core of the play. Rimbaud is as important in the play as Marx. The domestic situation of the Marx family is factual; the meeting with Rimbaud is not

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written with Bernard Wolfe

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Play/Drama

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Monique

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study of the deterioration of human character under attack by base (but unconquerable) passion

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written with Dorothy Blankfort. From novel Celle Qui N'etait Plus by Pierre Boileau And Thomas Narcejac

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John Golden Theatre, New York    22 Oct 1957

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Samuel French, NY, 1957   -

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adaptation

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