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DAVID ELIET
Nationality: USA
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David Eliet'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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But For the Grace Jumping Ropes and Turning Tricks Magda And Josef Miser's Holiday or The Magic Tree, The Peony Lantern, The Rabbi and the Virgin, The Spirit Of Life, The Urashima Vampire Cat Of NebeshimaBut For the Grace
Synopsis:
38.5 million Americans live with hunger. Not just the faceless homeless, but people from our daily lives: working men and women, children, elderly. Honest, touching, and humorous portrayals evoke laughter and tears, and, most importantly, a call to action. www.bftg.org 1h 20m, Providence, Rhode Island Solo Show, Drama
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Bob Jaffe
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1h 20m, Solo Show, Drama
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Top of PageJumping Ropes and Turning Tricks
Synopsis:
the play follows a young girl from her seduction by a neighborhood boy into the worlds of drugs and prostitution.
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Empire Black Box, 95 Empire Street In Providence, Ri 14 Dec 2012
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live radio Drama
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Top of PageMagda And Josef
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Based on certain episodes in the lives of Maria Magdalena Bednarova and Jan Flimel, this is the true story of a woman who risked her life to save the life of one Jewish man. It is a story of the personal courage of an ordinary person, and shows how everyone had the choice to help or turn away. adapted From Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust. the scope of the destruction of the Holocaust is almost unimaginable; the numbers of people murdered staggering
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One act
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Male: 3 Female: 6 Other: -
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Top of PageMiser's Holiday or The Magic Tree, The
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Circle in The Square. New York, NY 10019 01 Dec 2014
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Top of PagePeony Lantern, The
Synopsis:
a samurai's betrothed dies of a broken heart while waiting for her lover to return. In death, she and her maid devise a devious plot to haunt him in an attempt to bring him into the realm of death with her. Despite his servant's warnings that he is bewitched, eventually, the ghost succeeds and overcomes the samurai
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Male: 6 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageRabbi and the Virgin, The
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part of 11th Annual Culture Park Short Play Marathon
1st Produced:
New Bedford Whaling Museum Theatre 18 Johnny Cake Hill New Bedford Ma 24 Nov 2012
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short play
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Top of PageSpirit Of Life, The
Synopsis:
Drawing on material from Yaffa eliach's landmark book, these moving stories relate the experiences of individuals, many of them young people, during the Shoah. the play examines some of the mechanisms of the Final Solution and tells of the hatred and prejudice that fueled this unthinkable event.
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from Yaffa eliach
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Top of PageUrashima
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Once, long ago, a fisherman by the name of Urashima took his boat out to sea . . . a fantastic turtle caught in his net leads him to the island of the immortals. He is entranced by the utter beauty of the place, and with enshun. the lone fisherman falls in love and decides to live with her in paradise. But as time wears on, he misses home and decides to return. To his horror, he discovers that hundreds of years have passed.
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One act
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Male: 3 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageVampire Cat Of Nebeshima
Synopsis:
presents a Shinto perspective of the spiritual dimension of Nature itself . . .depicted in the form of a large cat who not only consumes humans, but then supernaturally changes its form to become that human, after which it interacts and easily deceives everyone it encounters, Until, that is, a world-wise roaming priest enters the picture . . .
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One act
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Male: 8 Female: 1 Other: or 1m 1f
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