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Ronald Ribman

RONALD RIBMAN

  (1932 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Fifi Oscard Agency  (agent: Peter Sawyer)

Ronald Ribman's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Break In the Skin, A         Buck         Burial Of Esposito, The         Cannibal Masque, The         Ceremony Of Innocence, The         Cold Storage         Domino Courts         Dream of the Red Spider         Fingernails Blue As Flowers         Harry, Noon And Night         Journey Of the Fifth Horse, The         Passing Through From Exotic Places         Poison Tree, The         Rug Merchants Of Chaos, The         Serpent's Egg, A         Son Who Hunted Tigers In Jakarta, The         Sunstroke         Sweet Table At the Richelieu

Break In the Skin, A

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1st Produced:
New Haven, Connecticut    1972

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Buck

Synopsis:
A cable television company has a huge success with a Dramatic reconstruction programme of gruesome murders. To save money they hire homeless and prostitutes off the street to play parts in the programmes

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1st Published:
Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1983   -

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Male:  10            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Burial Of Esposito, The

Synopsis:
a touching and powerful study of a Father who has lost a son in Vietnam and whose grief and guilt are so great that he convinces himself that the boy is still alive-and arises from his coffin to forgive him.

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
One Act

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Cannibal Masque, The

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1st Produced:
Cambridge, Massachusetts    1987

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Best American Short Plays 1994 - 1995" published by Applause Books   978-157832313

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Ceremony Of Innocence, The

Synopsis:
As Michael Smith describes ". . . Ribman has plunged into history and written a play about eleventh-century England and its pacifist King Ethelred. Ethelred has negotiated a treaty with Sweyn of Denmark whereby England pays tribute in silver and Sweyn gives his daughter Thulja is hostage to guarantee the peace. But Ethelred has hawks to contend with-the belligerent Earl of Sussex, his own hot-headed son Edmund, and a blood-thirsty mother-in-law-as well as a frustrated and jealous queen and a grasping Bishop. Eventually the proud Edmund kills four Danish immigrant farmers, picks a fight with the Danish ambassador, and is himself accidentally killed. His grandmother, the old Queen Alfreda, kills Thulja in vengeance, and the Danes prepare to invade England. At the end of the play Ethelred, who has sorrowfully taken refuge in a monastery, is being urged by even his most dovish advisers to march against the Danes and defend his throne. He refuses." And so the judgment of history goes against him-this benevolent, moral man who wanted only to bring a better life to his people, and to free them from the tyranny of constant, senseless wars.

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1st Produced:
American Place Theatre, NY    1967

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1968   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  plus several bits

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Cold Storage

Synopsis:
Landau, an art investor advisor in the hospital for exploratory surgery, meets Parmigian, a life-loving cancer-stricken Armenian-American dealer in fruits and vegetables. Landau ultimately reveals his secret: he is the only one of his family who survived the Holocaust because his parents sent him away.

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1st Produced:
New York    1977

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1st Published:
Nelson Doubleday, New York, 1976   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Domino Courts

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Dream of the Red Spider

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1st Produced:
American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, Ma    1993

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Fingernails Blue As Flowers

Synopsis:
Eugene Navell believes that he is lucid but he fails to communicate at all

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1st Produced:
New York    1971

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1st Published:
in "the American Place theatre", Dell, New York, 1973   -

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Harry, Noon And Night

Synopsis:
Two misfit American ex-pats in post War Munich

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1st Published:
Little Brown, Boston, 1967   -

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Journey Of the Fifth Horse, The

Synopsis:
a reader in a publishing house is given a diary to take home and read overnight, this sets three worlds spinning: the reader's dream world, the real world and the world of the diarist

Notes:
from the Diary of A Superflous Man by Turgenev

1st Produced:
New York    1966

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1st Published:
Little Brown, Boston, 1967   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Passing Through From Exotic Places

Synopsis:
the first play, the SON WHO HUNTED TIGERS IN JAKARTA, begins arrestingly as a suburban couple discover an intruder in their living room at 3 A.M. the well-dressed prowler claims that he stumbled in by mistake on his way home from a party; the husband is inclined to believe his story; the wife does not. From then on, the tension and excitement develop inexorably. (2 men, 1 woman.) In the second play, SUNSTROKE, a pudgy, eager Peace Corpsman arrives to take over the duties at a Pacific island, replacing an eccentric couple who have apparently turned the outpost into an antebellum Southern plantation. Humor and fantasy mingle as the well-educated, young native he first encounters turns himself into a grinning, shuffling "darkie" at the others' arrival. (3 men, 1 woman.) the third play, the BURIAL OF ESPOSITO, is a touching and powerful study of a Father who has lost a son in Vietnam and whose grief and guilt are so great that he convinces himself that the boy is still alive-and arises from his coffin to forgive him. (3 men, 1 woman.)

Notes:
includes the Son Who Hunted Tigers in Jakarta, Sunstroke, the Burial of Esposito

1st Produced:
New York    1969

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1970   -

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Genre:
three short plays One Act

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Poison Tree, The

Synopsis:
Western state prison shows how the complicity between a sadistic white guard and a benumbed black long term prisoner bring about the suicide of a young black inmate up for parole

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1st Produced:
Philadelphia    1973

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1977   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Rug Merchants Of Chaos, The

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1st Produced:
Pasadena, California    1991

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

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Serpent's Egg, A

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1st Produced:
Cambridge, Massachusetts    1987

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Son Who Hunted Tigers In Jakarta, The

Synopsis:
begins arrestingly as a suburban couple discover an intruder in their living room at 3 A.M. the well-dressed prowler claims that he stumbled in by mistake on his way home from a party; the husband is inclined to believe his story; the wife does not. From then on, the tension and excitement develop inexorably.

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
One Act

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sunstroke

Synopsis:
a pudgy, eager Peace Corpsman arrives to take over the duties at a Pacific island, replacing an eccentric couple who have apparently turned the outpost into an antebellum Southern plantation. Humor and fantasy mingle as the well-educated, young native he first encounters turns himself into a grinning, shuffling "darkie" at the others' arrival.

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

Music:
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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sweet Table At the Richelieu

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1st Produced:
Cambridge, Massachusetts    1987

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1st Published:
American Theatre Magazine, NY - July, 1987   -

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  7            Other:  -

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