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John Feffer

JOHN FEFFER

  (1963 - )
Nationality:    USA
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"I was born in 1963 in Tenafly, New Jersey. I have a BA in Russian and English from Haverford College. I have written, produced, and performed in four one-man shows and three shows with an ensemble cast. These plays have appeared at United Solo, the Capital Fringe Festival, the New York International Fringe Festival, the European Month of Culture in Washington, DC and various other venues. I have published ten books, including a novel, Foamers (Scribners, 1997), and the forthcoming Splinterlands (Haymarket). My journalism has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The Nation, and many other publications. I have been an Open Society Foundation Fellow working in Eastern Europe, a Pantech fellow in Korean Studies at Stanford University, and a Scoville Fellow in arms control and disarmament in Washington, DC. I am currently the director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC." - John Feffer

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

         Bird, The         Edible Rex         Interrogation         Krapp's Last Power Point         Pundit, The         Stuff

Bird, The

Synopsis:
1989 a young man in Prague. He meets a Jewish skinhead; a female assassin and a strange bird

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1st Produced:
Tada Theater, New York     02 Mar 2011

Organisations:
One Man Talking Festival

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Music:
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Genre:
Monologue play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Edible Rex

Synopsis:
a man, his son and a French chef search the World for the perfect meal

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Genre:
Monologue play

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Interrogation

Synopsis:
about surveillance and interrogation

Notes:
Capital Fringe Festival 2014

1st Produced:
Mountain - Mount Vernon United Methodist Church, Washington Dc     10 Jul 2014

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Genre:
90 min dark comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Krapp's Last Power Point

Synopsis:
How cool is this? a nerd scientist, Dr. George Krapp (John Feffer) has invented genetic modification - bacillus hypocritus, or 'the love bug' - which extends human life expectancy by five years. But he cant get approval for human experimentation in the U.S., which will be necessary before he can market the product. So he travels to D.C. in order to make a presentation before the 'sophisticated audience' who might persuade the authorities to change their minds. Krapps principal barrier in accomplishing this task is - Krapp. He is dry, given to meandering, and, frankly, boring. a half hour listening to unadulterated Krapp and believe me, life extension will be the furthest thing from your mind. So Krapp has devised a couple of strategies to keep his audience engaged while he goes astray. One is the PowerPoint presentation, which tells us what Dr. Krapp meant to say when he wandered off to talk about his wife or to share his bitterness toward his colleague Malcolm. the PowerPoint is a blizzard of authoritative-looking formulae and charts, interspersed with commercial-grade pictures of happy people, all, presumably, now enjoying lives five years longer. But since Krapp programmed the PowerPoint, it inevitably begins to hunt down Krapps obsessive concerns, eventually providing charts and formulae which measure Krapps miserable personal life in as much detail as it measures animal trials on the love bug. Krapps other strategy is to invent alternative universe Krapp to take us over the boring parts. This crypto-Krapp, influenced by the techniques of his childhood minister, Father Divine, is a mesmerizing storyteller who once held the great physicist Dr. Richard Feynman in thrall as he explained how Feynmans theories meshed with his own. He needs no power point to tell his story. He is Krapp; hear him spin. as you may have guessed by now, Krapps Last Power Point has nothing to do with the iconic Beckett play - except for this: they both feature a banana. In this version, Krapp does not slip on the banana peel. That distinction is reserved for us.
- Tim Treanor, dctheatrescene

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1st Produced:
Washington Dc, Capital Fringe Festival     2009

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Pundit, The

Synopsis:
ambitious Washington pundit Peter Peters is an expert on everything, even things he's never heard of before. His slick media appearances put him on the fast track. . .until one of his interviews blows up in his face.

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1st Produced:
Goethe Institut - Main Stage, Washington Dc Capfringe     13 Jul 2012

Organisations:
John Feffer

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Music:
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Genre:
1h 30m Drama Comedy

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Stuff

Synopsis:
A mother gives away her cherished possessions and reveals her deepest secrets. Other stuff includes: a filled-to-bursting storage unit, an art collection lost to the wrecking ball, a Moscow meeting with Paul Robeson and a long-lost file box of knowledge. A play about the things we carry with us through life: the objects, the secrets, the stuff.

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1st Produced:
Capital Fringe Festival, Washington DC     09 Jul 2015

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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/stuff   -

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Genre:
one act 90 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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