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George Hammer

GEORGE HAMMER  

 Nationality:    USA
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Educated at The City College of New York, B.S., M.S.; Columbia University, Ed.D.. Playwright, actor, designer, professor in the City University of New York, and psychotherapist in private practice. Member, The Dramatists Guild. Re-cipient: Best Play award, Barn Theatre, Mont-ville, NJ.
address (in 1981) : 20 Fifth ave., New York, NY 10011 (212) 982-3977

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

 Changes: A Love Story         Cleaning Women, The         Comes Tomorrow         Golden Land, The         Seventy-Three Hundred Hamburgers Later         When Princes Could Be Waiters

Changes: A Love Story

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Cleaning Women, The

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H.B. Playwrights Foundation, NYC    -

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Comes Tomorrow

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The alenskys are Russian Jewish immigrants living on the Lower East Side of New York during the Depression of the 1930's. Ruth and Joshua, the children of the family, each in his own way seeks to free himself from the domination of their mother. In the end, Pincus, a widower from the old country, wins Ruth's love and carries her off on his bicycle.

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Comic Drama, full length Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Golden Land, The

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David Kahn, an immigrant who built a business during the 1930's Depression, is beset by problems. His business is in debt and the gangster from whom he has borrowed money is trying to take over his company; the union is organizing his shop and his daughter is in love with the union organizer; and his brother may get arrested as a con-artist. a surprise birthday pre-sent solves his problems.

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Comic Drama, full length Comedy

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Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Seventy-Three Hundred Hamburgers Later

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a couple, married for twenty years, leads a life of sameness and boredom. Their real means of communicating is by participating in each other's fantasies, based on 1930's movies and other memories. Deals with alienation and language.

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New York Theatre Ensemble    -

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Comic Drama One act

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When Princes Could Be Waiters

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