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Ellen Pober Rittberg

ELLEN POBER RITTBERG

  
Nationality:    USA
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Ellen Pober Rittberg is a playwright, poet and former journalist. Her plays "Sci Fi," "Hostage Crisis," and "Sabbath Elevator" deal with such issues of freedom and personal responsibility and alienation. the winner of several Sigma Delta Chi Press Club Awards, the Long Island Coalition for Fair Broadcasting's FOLIO award, a Mid Island Y/JCC poetry award and a Border's bookstore poetry contest, Rittberg performs her poetry around the New York metropolitan areA. She is a bird, tree and flower watcher and occasionally sees it through to watching people. She has written two books, a novel and a how-to book about parenting and is seeking a publisher.

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         Hostage Crisis         Just a Quiet Evening At Home, Six Friends         Sabbath Elevator         Sci Fi
Hostage Crisis

Synopsis:
Half way or more around the world (if one lives in the U.S. that is,) a female journalist is in a cell with a silent male guard. It appears to be her last night on earth.She attempts to make a connection and to understand her life.

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Play/Drama

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Just a Quiet Evening At Home, Six Friends

Synopsis:
Three couples, one male who is all bluff and bluster, his wife who is a conceptual artist and their friends, two couples who are restless and ripe for manipulation and relationship-intrigue battle and play musical rooms and shifting loyalties. Fun and games-not!

Notes:
the main female character should have A hectic energy. the main male character should be over the top. And no one should look Alike (a personal quirk on my part)

1st Produced:
Theatervisions (Staged Reading)     1984

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Sabbath Elevator

Synopsis:
A man and a women are in an elevator in an Orthodox Jewish hotel on the Sabbath.the elevator works automatically, without the aid of buttons. When a third person enters what appears to be a life-or death situation, all three are forced to deal with the issue of truth and violence. Rashoman with a Jewish twist that is not specifically Jewish at all.

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One of the female characters can be As young As fifteen, the other female can be in her twenties or thirties. As the older female character is supposed to be wheelchai- bound, the possibility of using A person with A mobility impairment exists And is encouraged. the male character can be in his twenties or thirties.

1st Produced:
Jewish Arts Festival, Commack , New York     1987

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Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sci Fi

Synopsis:
In a future society where the two classes are separated and speak to each other under pain of death, Rick, a worker, makes a connection with Shana, a breeder-wife to the ruling class and which has the possibility of changing the future and/or ending their lives What happens when the past is almost completely obliterated and a person doesn't know it? Can love and a sense of justice prevail?

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the Ages of the characters can be Anywhere from twenty to late thirties.

1st Produced:
Triangle Theater, Long Island University     1989

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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