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Helen Duberstein

HELEN DUBERSTEIN

  (1926 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Helmut Meyer  

Helen Duberstein's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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

         Affalr, The         Axe Of Creation         Brain, The         Broken Lease, The         Copout!         Five Thousand Feet High         Foggia         Four Corners         Hotel Europe         Kingdom By the Sea, The         Love / Hate         Monkey Of the Inkpot, The         Play Within, The         Puppeteers, The         Street Scene         Time Shadows         Under the Bridge there Is A Lonely Spot (With Gregory Peck)         Visit From Grandma, A         Visit, The         We Never Thought A Wedding         When I Died My Hair In Venice         Your Unhappiness With Me Is Of No Concern To Readers

Affalr, The

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Axe Of Creation

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Lisa Mayo of Spiderwoman theatre and Helen Duberstein formed a workshop to explore and produce a theatre piece based on dreams and hidden memories of women which would involve kinships amongst women, blood, surrogate and mythic. Several women of different ages, ethnic backgrounds, cultural heritage and sexual preferences met over a period of five months. all of them, they discovered, had experienced themselves outside of history, as it were, and had evolved a means of survival In a hostile environment which sought to make them disappear on many levels. In the first piece to evolve, axe of Creation, each one tells her story of how she survives In a world that is not of her making

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Brain, The

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Broken Lease, The

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Copout!

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Five Thousand Feet High

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Foggia

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Four Corners

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Hotel Europe

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Kingdom By the Sea, The

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Love / Hate

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Monkey Of the Inkpot, The

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Play Within, The

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Puppeteers, The

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Street Scene

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Time Shadows

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Under the Bridge there Is A Lonely Spot (With Gregory Peck)

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Harriet's world is one of erotica, based on experiences and happenings in her youth which still hold a steel grip on her dreams and sexual turn-ons. Fearful of the excruciating pain she has experienced both as a child of parents who were unaware of her real existence, and as a pawn in early sexual experiences, used badly, raped In body, soul and mind, Harriet has come to terms with her half life. She has programmed herself Into a country wife with a nice man and a nice child. She is living a nice life. Or Is she? Her memories of her past come to haunt her, In person, with a visit of her mother who remembers the past as precious nostalgia. the play succeeds beautifully In Its intelligence (we are surely In the presence of an intellectual heavyweight and for that, thank god) - . - succeeds in its lyrical qualities and Its abiding affection for a world peopled by flawed creatures - . - there Is bite to these characters and a roundness. . . faced with the necessary complexities of being sensitively alive - arthu

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Visit From Grandma, A

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Visit, The

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We Never Thought A Wedding

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a folk opera which takes place in the forties. Concerns the relationship and inter-relationships of three couples. Val and Carlotta marry because they conceive of their friends, Leslie and edith, as having an "Ideal marriage" together with their child, Jonathon. as it turns out, Leslie and edith Invite Val and Carlotta to their wedding, as well as veritable crowds, two years later. Well! That is a wedding! the third couple, James and Lillian, are young, romantic and Idealistic and they sing and dance their way In and out of all the singing and dancing!

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When I Died My Hair In Venice

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Your Unhappiness With Me Is Of No Concern To Readers

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