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Jack Gelber

JACK GELBER  (1932 - 2003)

 Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Ronald Konecky  


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

 Apple, The         Barbary Shore         Big Shot         Chambers         Connection, The         Cuban Thing, The         Dylan's Line         Farmyard         Magic Valley         Rehearsal         Rio Preserved         Sleep         Square In The Eye         Starters

Apple, The

Jack Gelber
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1st Produced:
New York    1961

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1st Published:
Grove Press, New York, 1961   -

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Barbary Shore

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novel by Norman Mailer

1st Produced:
New York    1973

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Genre:
adaptation

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Big Shot

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1st Produced:
New Rochelle, New York    1988

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Chambers

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1st Produced:
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Connection, The

Jack Gelber
The Connection is a play about the human condition. The audience encounters a group of junkies and a group of jazz musicians waiting in a loft for 'Cowboy' to bring them a fix, while they are being filmed for a movie about their lives. It is the entrance to a complex world, which mirrors many aspects of the human condition from the burning despair of the addict to the glorious redemption of the jazz music

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Music by Freddie Redd

1st Produced:
New York    1959

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1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1957   -

Music:
Original music score for the play: Iris Music Group 1960 (re-released 2005)

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Cuban Thing, The

Jack Gelber
Impact of Castro and the revolution on decadent middle class family and their friends.

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1st Produced:
New York    1968

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1st Published:
Grove Press, New York, 1969   -

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Genre:
Historical drama

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Male:  9            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Dylan's Line

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Farmyard

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Original Playwright - Franz Xaver Kroetz

1st Produced:
New Haven, Connecticut    1975

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1st Published:
Urizen, New York, 1976   -

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Genre:
adaptation

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Magic Valley

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1st Produced:
New York    1990

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Rehearsal

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1st Produced:
New York    1976

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Rio Preserved

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1st Produced:
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Sleep

Jack Gelber
Volunteers dreams are recorded during sleep experiment when he is wired to a bed.

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1st Produced:
New York    1972

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1st Published:
Hill and Wang, New York, 1972   978-0809012282

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 23/5

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Square In The Eye

Jack Gelber
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1st Produced:
New York    1965

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1st Published:
Grove Press, New York, 1966   -

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Starters

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1st Produced:
New Haven, Connecticut    1980

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