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James L Rosenberg

JAMES L ROSENBERG  (1921 - )

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Born Sheridan, WY on May 19, 1921. A.B., University of Denver. Has taught at the English Department, Kansas State University; Theatre Department, Tulane University. Visiting Professor of Drama, University of Birmingham (England). Currently Professor of Playwriting and Director of Graduate Studies, Drama Department, Carnegie-Mellon University. Translator: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (verse translation), Rinehart; The Chinese Wall, by Max Frisch (translated from the German), Hill and Wang; The Wicked Cooks, by Gunter Grass (translated from the German), in New Theatre of Europe: II, Dell; Three Plays by Max Frisch (translated from the German) Hill and Wang; author of A Primer of Kinetics (poems), The Swallow Press. Recipient: MCA Writing Fellowship, Universal Studios; Fulbright Fellowship to England, 1968-69; Public Committee John Kane; Commission from Iron Clad Agreement.

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 Aspern Papers, The         Cells         Death And Life Of Sneaky Fitch         Gladys         Good Breeding         Jeeves, By Jove!         Kane         Mel Says to Give You His Best         My Dear Sisters         Processing Room, The         Table Stakes         Voices

Aspern Papers, The

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Cells

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Death And Life Of Sneaky Fitch

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To the ambitious little town of Gopher Gulch, Sneaky Fitch is an abrasive disgrace-a no-good, drunken, brawling nuisance. When he falls ill there is a sigh of relief, and when he apparently dies (thanks to some suspicious "medicine" administered by the departing Doc Burch) there are few tears. But when Sneaky rises from his coffin the picture changes, for no one dares confront a man who has come back from the dead. Capitalizing on his "invincibility" Sneaky soon takes over as sheriff, mayor and town banker-not to mention being the man who faces down Rackham, the fastest gun in the West. In short, where he was formerly unbearable he is now insufferable. But mortality (thanks to the reappearance of Doc Burch) suddenly returns, and once the truth is out it's curtains for Sneaky-this time for keeps-and all ends as boisterously and happily as you might wish.

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numerous school, college, theatre group productions, Off Off Broadway    -

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 01 Oct 1987   -

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A Farcial Tragedy

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Gladys

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Carnegie-Mellon University, PA; Chatham College    -

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Good Breeding

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Good Breeding: A Brechtian Farce. Eberhard Funk, bourgeois to the marrow, middle-aged, and married to the twenty-year-old Millie, has failed in his effort to perpetuate the Funk line. In line with sound business practice, he decides to advertise in the newspaper for a person to fill the post of honor in his place. Among the applicants (all of them deemed unsuitable) is Roger, Millie's secret beloved, who appears in various disguises, all of them unsuccessful, until at last, appearing as himself, he is joyously and even insistently selected by Eberhard, who virtually forces the two yOung people into the bedroom together and concludes the play with a veritable war-dance of triumph, screaming: "I've won! I've wont" The shades of Machiavelli, Moliere, and Brecht are invoked from time to time in this mildly grotesque comedy.

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farce

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Jeeves, By Jove!

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Kane

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Mel Says to Give You His Best

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Carver, a struggling writer, is awakened in the middle of the night to find Rapp, a young black man, at his door. Rapp claims that a mutual friend," Mel Coppersmith (whom Carver can't recall), told him that he would find a welcome at Carver's any time, day or night, so he blithely invites himself to stay. thereafter, in a sequence of sometimes funny, sometimes disquieting scenes, punctuated by a disembodied voice which booms "Please maintain your focus," Rapp insinuates himself ever more insidiously into Carver's life. He talks of finding a job, but nothing is suitable; he promises not to interfere with Carver's work, and then proceeds to do so; he taunts and menaces Carver; he brings in a mute black girl to share the already crowded apartment; and, before long, he suggests that Carver should be the one to leave. Ultimately the shaken Carver, after having come close to violence, conceives the means to rid himself of Rapp-whereupon the doorbell rings again, this time disclosing a young white man with a pretty blonde girl at his side: friends of Mel Coppersmith's, looking for a place to crash!

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A remarkable original And innovative "black comedy," which makes deft use of Absurdist techniques to illuminate the shadowed recesses between what is real And what is imagined

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American College Theatre Festival; Pennsylvania State University    -

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1975   978-0822207467

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My Dear Sisters

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Processing Room, The

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The Processing Room: In an Orwelhan world of the future, where wan and pollution have forced society to literally go underground, French and Eva live together in a subterranean garbage-disposal plant, slaves to a system they only dimly comprehend and do not even know how to question. A new man, Springer, is assigned to work with them; eager and optimistic, he inspires Eva with hope for a brighter future through correspondence school education, and when, eventually, the growing relationship between Springer and Eva arouses French's jealousy, there is a fight in which Springer is killed. In this upside down world, blacks have replaced whites as the wealthy, educated, dominant race, and when the supervisors of the processing room-two well-dressed African blacks with Oxford accents-hear of the killing, they solve the problem by disposing of Springer's body with the rest of the garbage. In the play's final scene, a new man, eager to make good, arrives to replace and the cycle continues.

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Table Stakes

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Voices

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