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MARINA SHRON
Nationality: USA
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Marina is a recipient of James Thurber Fellowship in Playwriting, Jerome Fellowship in Playwriting, NYFA Fellowship in Playwriting and other awards. Her plays include King of Rats (Soho Rep, 1997), Christina (Soho Rep, 1998), Time and the Beast, Mitya's Ordeal (Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab) and To Love in Another Language (Here, Soho Rep, New Georges). She is an author of the Silent Love of the Fish (aired on PBS in August 2003; Best Short Film Award at the Hamptons International Film Festival 2000). She co-authored (with Dennis Shasha) Red Blues (Holmes and Maier, 2002). Her other screenplays include Dreaming of You (commissioned by Derek McKane productions) and Virgin (finalist for the American Gem short script competition). Marina teaches Dramatic writing at the New School University and Montclair State University. She is a recipient of a 2005 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award for lecture and research in Russia and Germany.
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Christina Day Four Eden King of Rats Mitya's Ordeal Silent Love of the Fish, The Time And the BeastChristina
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The play is a thematic nod to Nabokov "Lolita". It tells the story of a teenage nymphet who becomes an object -- and a victim - of adults forbidden desires. But unlike the heroine of Nabokov novel, Christina is no regular teenager and she can hardly be perceived as a victim. A child-woman, in turn manipulative and innocent, earthy and ethereal, Christina is an outsider. Her existence is marginal, both in terms of her social status and her sexuality. She is "damaged" and "deprived" and she"never had a chance". Yet something elemental and powerful about her existence makes her a magnet for others, more privileged than herself. Whether she is aware of it or not, Christinas struggle is not to fit in, but rather to adapt the world so she could fit into it. Like Lynn and Joe, Christinas adoptive parents, the audience will find themselves disturbed and seduced by Christinas mystery: the stuff shes made of is too messy and potent shes a walking bomb or a catalyst of change. Once dropped inside Lynn and Joes world, Christina will either make it explode -- or alter its entire fabric. . .
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dark comedy Comedy
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Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: 1 gender neutral
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Top of PageEden
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Two performers - one amateur, one professional - are living/performing their unscripted love story in a storefront window.
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1 Act, 75 Minutes
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Top of PageKing of Rats
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A Boy, 10 years old, fat and clumsy, observes life in the house, which he calls "a living ball with breathing walls". His Father lost his first wife, who gave birth to his son, but doesn't seem to remember her. His new wife, Lena, the boy's stepmother, is suspicious of her love for her husband. She cooks meat, then beans, cares for her husband's dying but still lustful father. When the Old Man finally dies, Lena leaves the house. the Father replaces her with another woman who emanates underneath a pile of rags. the Old Man comes back to life just to demand more food on his plate at the dinner table. the boy flirts with a girl who is becoming a full-grown woman in front of his eyes. the lustful Old Man never dies again. Lena gives birth to a child and comes back to the house on the day of her husband's wedding. . .
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Maternity structures the play. . .Grotesquery marks both words And emotions.the language, itself, is An Attempt to experience catharsis resulting often instead in declarations of war -- this chronic failure creates comedy. However, the traditional comedic ending, matrimony And A birth, brings no comedic relief. the comedy dies, giving birth to A new cycle of torment And hope.
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New Georges, Soho Rep, New York, USA 1998
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Passion Play Play/Drama
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Top of PageMitya's Ordeal
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from Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov
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Lincoln Center Theatre "Brothers Karamazov" festival 1999
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Lincoln Center Theatre Directors' Lab, Peculiar Works Company, NY
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Adaptation
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Male: 5 Female: 2 Other: 2
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Top of PageSilent Love of the Fish, The
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Theatre Row (Alice's Fourth Floor), NY 1994
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Theatre Row, Soho Rep, Here, Workhouse, New Georges, New York,
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Triptych (3 short plays) One Act
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Top of PageTime And the Beast
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the play is a Dramatic exploration of myth, history and individual desire. Inspired partly by the biblical story of Jacob and the sisters Rachel and Leah who became his wives, it also visits 1918 Ukraine and 1943 Germany. the characters mature in History as History itself comes of age.
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House of Candles, New York 1998
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Lyrical epic Play/Drama
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