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Bernard Sabath

BERNARD SABATH  

 Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency  


Coach for Professional Writers Workshop, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University (Chicago campus) since 1965. Recipient: Serge' Prize, 1975; Jacksonville University, 1975; Des Moines Community Playhouse, 1975; Colonial Players, 1975; Stanley Drama, 1969; Humboldt (Calif.) State, 1968; California State Theatre at San Diego, 1963; Blue Masque Contemporary Series, 1963; Baton Rouge Theatre, 1962; Stevens Award for Serious Drama at Dramatists' Alliance, 1961; University of Nebraska Theatre, 1961. TV for CBS Drama Workshop. Radio for BBC. Member of Playwrights at Tanglewood for Boston University, 1968. OADR, 1967; Midwest Playwrights Lab, 1979

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

 Barbarian In Love, A         Boys in Autumn         Daughter of the Giant         Eclipse Day         Happy New Year To the Whole World (Except Alexander Graham Bell)         Lonliest Wayfarer, The         Man Who Lost the River         Moscow Lights         Old Lady Who Got With It, The         Summer Demons, The         Summer Morning Visitor         Trouble Begins At 8, The         Twain Plus Twain         You Caught Me Dancing

Barbarian In Love, A

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A BARBARIAN IN LOVE, finds Sam in Elmira, New York (several years later) and smitten by his best friend's sister. Proposing marriage, he finds that he must first win over her strait-laced and rather pompous father-a task which calls on the full resources of his earthy wit and wisdom.

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Comedy One Act

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Boys in Autumn

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Having retired from vaudeville Tom Sawyer, who has been using the stage name of Thomas Gray returns to his home in the South searching for his boyhood friend Huckleberry Finn.

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Marine's Memorial Theater in San Francisco    1981

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Daughter of the Giant

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Eclipse Day

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IASTA, Off Broadway, NY    -

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Happy New Year To the Whole World (Except Alexander Graham Bell)

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A Happy New Year to the Whole World except Alexander Graham Bell: A comedy about the American age of invention. Time, 1877 - a crucial moment for young (thirty) A.G. Bell who needs financing for final work and demonstration on the telephone. He approaches Sam Clemens, forty, known to be invention prone. Clemens, burned on several investments already, needs a major one to enable him to stay home and write rather than traveling the country to lecture in order to support a costly lifestyle. The meeting with Bell is a conflict between two stubborn geniuses. Clemens finally does not invest, but soon becomes the first private "subscriber" to the telephone. He trumpets his dissatisfaction with Bell to the world. Bell eventually comes demanding an apology. Other characters include Clemens' wife Livy; a high school lad deep in inventing; an investment-rich haberdashery clerk and his malapropping wife.

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Also known As "the Man With the Red Necktie"

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Jacksonville Summer Repertory Theatre, FL    -

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Lonliest Wayfarer, The

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In the LONELIEST WAYFARER, we meet the now world famous Mark Twain in his later years. A widower living in Hartford, Connecticut, his tranquillity is disturbed by a rather slippery young runaway who could be Sam himself in his youth and who the wise old man slyly cajoles into accepting the responsibilities he thought he was about to escape.

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Man Who Lost the River

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A newspaper reporter goes to see the elderly Mark Twain. He tries to persuade the old man to write another book like the Huckleberry Finn/Tom Sawyer ones. Twain says he is not able to write any more and he is awaiting Halley's Comet which is due and had last came when he was born. Twain notices that things are disappearing and he finds a teenage boy has been hiding in his house. He is inspired by the boy's stories. then the comet arrives bringing Tom and Huck who take him off to the Mississippi and the cries of the river boat men "M-a-r-k Twain"

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Virginia Museum Theatre; reading, Hartford Stage Company, CT    -

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Dramatic Publishing Company,    -

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Moscow Lights

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American Conservatory Theatre, CA    -

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Old Lady Who Got With It, The

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National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 58/1

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Summer Demons, The

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Wilmington Drama League, DE    -

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Summer Morning Visitor

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In SUMMER MORNING VISITOR, a young man of Southern background but Northern sympathies agonizes over which side to join in the growing conflict which will become the Civil War. Befriended by a young Missouri woman whose husband is with the Union forces, he (young Sam Clemens) is introduced to a nosy neighbor as a long absent brother and, in this guise, he sends his new friend a witty letter after his departure explaining the unexpected way in which he eventually solved his dilemma.

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Trouble Begins At 8, The

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In the TROUBLE BEGINS AT 8, it is five years later and Sam, after some success as a foreign correspondent, is down on his luck. the setting is a rough-and-ready San Francisco saloon, where Sam meets a rowdy friend from his newspaper days who (with some thought of personal profit in mind) talks him into undertaking the lecture tours that in time were to bring him fame and fortune.

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Twain Plus Twain

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In the first play, SUMMER MORNING VISITOR, a young man of Southern background but Northern sympathies agonizes over which side to join in the growing conflict that will become the Civil War. Befriended by a young Missouri woman whose husband is with the Union forces, he (young Sam Clemens) is introduced to a nosy neighbor as a long-absent brother and, in this guise, he sends his new friend a witty letter after his departure explaining the unexpected way in which he eventually solved his dilemma. (1 man, 2 women.) In the second play, the TROUBLE BEGINS AT 8, it is five years later and Sam, after some success as a foreign correspondent, is down on his luck. the setting is a rough-and-ready San Francisco saloon, where Sam meets a rowdy friend from his newspaper days who (with some thought of personal profit in mind) talks him into undertaking the lecture tours that in time were to bring him fame and fortune. (3 men, 1 woman.) the third play, A BARBARIAN IN LOVE, finds Sam in Elmira, New York (several years later) and smitten by his best friend's sister. Proposing marriage, he finds that he must first win over her strait-laced and rather pompous father-a task which calls on the full resources of his earthy wit and wisdom. (2 men, 1 woman.) In the final play, the LONELIEST WAYFARER, we meet the now world famous Mark Twain in his later years. A widower living in Hartford, Connecticut, his tranquillity is disturbed by a rather slippery young runaway who could be Sam himself in his youth and who the wise old man slyly cajoles into accepting the responsibilities he thought he was about to escape. (2 men.)

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Inspired by episodes in the life of Samuel Clemens (better known As Mark Twain) these four skillfully written plays capture the sly humor And warm compassion that were hallmarks of this great writer's style. Designed to be presented As An interrelated program, the plays can Also be produced separately with equal effectiveness

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Four Related Short Plays One Act

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You Caught Me Dancing

You Caught Me Dancing
For thirty years Kate Leary was a servant and companion to Mark Twain. She tells her story.

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