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Emily Mann

EMILY MANN

  (1952 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency  

Emily Mann'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 Emily Mann's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Annulla Allen: the Autobiography Of A Survivor         Betsey Brown         Cherry Orchard, The         Execution Of Justice         Greensboro: A Requiem         Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years         House Of Bernarda Alba, The         Meshugah         Mrs Packard         Nights And Days         Still Life

Annulla Allen: the Autobiography Of A Survivor

Synopsis:
about the life of anulla allen, who lived as a Jew but "passed" as aryan during the Nazi regime in Germany. the play is structured as an interview, during the course of which we discover all that this passionate woman has seen and experienced. a Polish Jew married to an austrian Jew, she managed to elude the authorities, and even get her husband released from Dachau. Decades ahead of her time, she dreamt of starting the first political Women's Party as early as 1939, and actually wrote her own six-hour play on the subject of her life. Constantly moving as a child, she learned seven languages, finally settling in London as a grown woman, which she adored. the entire interview takes place in her history-packed London kitchen, as she prepares dinner for her bed-ridden sister.
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Notes:
aka Annulla, An Autobiography

1st Produced:
Minneapolis     1977

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1985   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Betsey Brown

Synopsis:
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Notes:
from novel by Ntozake Shange

1st Produced:
Philadelphia     1989

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Cherry Orchard, The

Synopsis:
the play takes place on the grounds of Lyubov andreyevna Ranevskaya's estate, somewhere in the provinces of Russia. Lopakhin, a sometime peasant who has become a wealthy businessman, and Dunyasha, the maid, are waiting for Lyubov. She has been away from home a long time, living in Paris with her lover. When she arrives with her daughter, anya, she is welcomed by her brother, Gayev, and other family, friends, staff and neighbors. Lyubov and Gayev recall happy times from their childhoods on the estate. But unless the family can raise enough money to save it, the estate will have to be sold to clear Lyubov's debts. they concoct several plans, one of which entails cutting down their famous cherry orchard. But no one plan is settled upon. as August approaches, when the estate must be auctioned off to meet the mortgage payments, what unfolds in this household is a comedy-Drama of timeless, bittersweet beauty. the CHeRRY ORCHaRD is universally acknowledged as one of the masterpieces of world theatre.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2001   -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  5            Other:  extras

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Execution Of Justice

Synopsis:
the controversial killing of San Francisco's mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk by Daniel James White is examined in the courtroom, reflecting conflicting social and political ideals

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1st Published:
American Theatre Magazine, NY - November, 1985    -

Music:
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Genre:
Docu-Drama Documentary. - - Gay/Lesbian, historical characters

Parts:
Male:  14            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Greensboro: A Requiem

Synopsis:
November 3rd, 1979. Five demonstrators are shot and killed by members of the Nazi party and KKK. the entire event is televised. No attacker is ever convicted. This is a story about violence, injustice, and the politics of race. This is the story of an American tradgedy.

Notes:
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1st Published:
Theatre Communications Group, New York,    -

Music:
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Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

Synopsis:
the lives of two black octogenarian sisters

Notes:
adapted from the book Having our Say by Sarah L. And A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth, based on the lives of Sadie And Bessie Delany.

1st Produced:
Booth Theatre, New York     1995

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Theatre Communications Group, New York,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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House Of Bernarda Alba, The

Synopsis:
Following her husband's funeral in rural Iran, powerful matriarch Bernarda alba decrees to her five daughters that the household will enter a period of eight years mourning. the only one it seems will escape this fate is the eldest daughter, angustias, who is already betrothed to the village's most eligible bachelor. In the strict confines of the house, jealousy and suppressed sexuality rise to the surface. as Bernada's oppression of her daughters increases it is more than the girls liberty that is in danger

Notes:
Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  11            Other:  extras

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Meshugah

Synopsis:
Set in the 1950s on Manhattan's Upper West Side, MeSHUGaH is a tragicomic portrait of a community of recent Jewish emigres living in the wake of the Holocaust. When aaron Greidinger, a struggling novelist and advice columnist, falls in love with the beautiful mistress of a friend from his Warsaw past, dark secrets and bizarre twists threaten to break up the unusual romance. emily Mann brings to swirling theatrical life Singer's poignant love story of lost souls in a world gone meshugah.

Notes:
adapted from the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

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Mrs Packard

Synopsis:
In 1861 the Reverend theophilis Packard had his wife committed to a lunatic asylum because they were disagreeing on religion and how their children should be brought up.

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Nights And Days

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Pierre Laville

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "avant-Scene", Paris, July, 1984   -

Music:
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Still Life

Synopsis:
Ten years after the Vietnam War. Mark is haunted by the atrocities he took part in. Cheryl, Mark's wife expecting their second child - a former flower power girl and afraid of Mark's sudden outbursts of violence. Nadine, Mark's mistress a feminists and survivor of an abusive marriage.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Chicago     1980

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1982   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Bibliographies/VN_drama_bib.php

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