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Misha Shulman

MISHA SHULMAN  

 Nationality:    Israeli
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Misha Shulman was Commander in Charge of Education in the Communications Unit of Lebanon while serving in the Israeli Defense Forces from 1996 to 1999. A 2012/2013 fellow of LABA, the National Laboratory for New Jewish Culture, Misha is an award-winning, New York City based playwright, director and actor. Previously Writer in Residence at Theater for the New City (TNC) in New York, and at Toronto s Crow s Theatre, Misha is a graduate of the MFA in Playwriting program at Brooklyn College, under Mac Wellman. Born and raised in Jerusalem, Misha has been writing, directing and acting in New York since 1999. His plays have been produced to great acclaim in NYC at Theater for the New City, Dixon Place, The Drilling Company, Hunter College and Club Midway, as well as across the US. Internationally his plays have been presented in Australia, Israel and Canada. Misha s work has been published by TCG, Tikkun, and NOW Magazine. He has worked extensively with the Living Theatre, DADA New York, Bread and Puppet, and Toronto s Festival of Clowns, and is the founding director of The Boundless Theater.

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 Apricots         Brunch At The Luthers         Deathscape         Desert Sunrise         Faith         Fake History of George the Last, The         Fist, The         Immortal Till He Dies         In The Stomach Of A Whale         Martyrs Street         Night Of The Broken Eye         Question I Try Not To Ask         Tale of the Door That Appeared at the Edge of WAZAGA         Vermillionaire

Apricots

Synopsis:
Everything you wanted to know about the Middle East - but were afraid to ask. . .

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1st Produced:
Midway Rock Club, New York    2008

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Paper Beats Rock

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Comedy

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Brunch At The Luthers

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The play gives us a day in the lives of an absurd middle-aged couple. Luther (it may be his last name, or his first) is married (or lives with) a nervous woman named Ruth. They are preparing for a ceremonious brunch. A famous chef arrives bearing duck-not to eat, but the wooden decoy, as does a state congressman, a woman named Mansfield, who brings a bronze one. They struggle stubbornly over the details of the meal and await apprehensively the arrival of Harlot Sierra O'toul, a neice of Mansfield. The text is a highly structured, yet excruciating, series of malAprops caused by the characters continually interrupting each other, somewhat like partially deaf people acting Abbott & Costello's 'Who's On First'. They comedically elongate such ordinary matters as whether to answer the door, how many hot cocoas to make, whether to sit on the carpet, and whether Mansfield's niece is actually coming. The niece (or nephew, we are never quite sure which) is said to be an erotic dancer. This causes a buildup of great excitement. She is ultimately revealed to be entirely normal, however her banality doesn't dissuade Luther from his private fantasy of her. Minutiae of the plot, down to the number of spoons at the table or the sex of the dancer, require intricate detective work and intense cogitation to establish even small truths. Words fail, to be replaced by the articulate substitute of quacking. A culminating event of great significance, which these small things should be building up to to, never comes.
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Deathscape

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Deathscape by Misha Shulman is a multi-media, puppet-centered, Kafka-meets-Cocteau-in-A-Yellow-Submarine play about dreams where life changes and fears meet. It is inspired by Shulman's own dreams, Jungian imagery and the biblical story of Jacob. Performed by two actors and four puppeteers, the play will include a combination of Indonesian-style shadow work, live overhead projector artwork and three-dimensional puppets.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009    10 Nov 2011

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piece 70 min

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Desert Sunrise

Misha Shulman
Desert Sunrise tells a story about a chance encounter between an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian man. Taking refuge in a desert wadi, the two men are initially antagonistic, but each is surprisingly open to the others views. Just when they seem to have overcome their distrust for each other, they are joined by the Palestinian man's beloved, who embodies an odd, impermeable shell of ideology and radical zeal that neither of the men can penetrate. As the three reach into their own pasts, they not only find similarities, but also begin to understand the psychological and social fabric behind their political beliefs. Over the course of one memorable night the process of mutual understanding and forgiveness begins, halts, gets rejected, but is ultimately embraced by the pained characters. Desert Sunrise uses English, Hebrew and Arabic dialogue between the three characters and is interspersed with choral odes, performed by onstage musicians and adapted from various translations of Aeschylus' Agamemnon. At times, the characters quote Osama Bin Laden, an Israeli mother who lost her son to the conflict, Ariel Sharon, Hamas leaders, Israeli and Palestinian politicians, peace activists, and Palestinian cave dwellers. It also employs Indonesian shadow techniques that are shared with Egyptian puppetry. The play is set in the desert hills south of Hebron, where several thousand Palestinian shepherds and farmers have been living in natural caves since the early 19th century. For the past two decades the cave-dwellers have been terribly oppressed by both the Israeli Army and settlers in an attempt to force them out of the land and open it for take over by fundamentalist Jewish settlers. Over 80% of the caves have been demolished, wells stuffed with rocks, olive groves stolen and cattle poisoned, leaving the cave-dwellers with close to nothing to live on. Despite this unbearable injustice the cave-dwellers have remained non-violent, resisting the loud voices in Palestinian society to take arms against the Israelis. The region is birthplace of the Taayush peace movement (the word means living together in Arabic), a group that will provide support for this production.
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Contained in: "Salaam Peace: An Anthology Of Middle Eastern American Drama" published by Theatre Communications Group 2009   978-1559363327

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Faith

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Declaring "We all believe in something. . .don't we?," The Drilling Company has set a short play project on the subject of faith. The nine short plays cover a range of ideas and writing styles. The program includes plays by Brian Dykstra, Kate McCamy, Richard Mover, C. Denby Swanson, Scott Baker, and Stephen Bittrich, all regular contributors to past Drilling Company projects, plus newcomers Jennifer Fawcett, Misha Shulman, and Christine Whitley.
- nytheatre.com

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Fake History of George the Last, The

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The Fake History of George the Last metaphorically attacks the notion of the inevitability of violence throughout generations in an absurdist style that incorporates iconic imagery from the Book of Ecclesiastes. In the play, set in a futuristic English-speaking country, there are four generations of men named George-all clones-who are predestined to go through the same family rituals and rites of passage, culminating in murder. The idea is to Dramatize how violent beliefs and animosities seem inevitable and they are inherited in defiance of the possibility of individual choice.
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Fist, The

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Three generations of an Israeli family are thrown into turmoil when the son refuses to serve in occupied Palestinian Territory

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Immortal Till He Dies

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In The Stomach Of A Whale

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Martyrs Street

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Two Middle Eastern families, a Jewish and a Palestinian. The son of the Jewish family has joined an extremist Settlers cell. The son of the Palestinian family has become a terrorist

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Night Of The Broken Eye

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Question I Try Not To Ask

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Drilling Company Theatre, New York    May 2010

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Tale of the Door That Appeared at the Edge of WAZAGA

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Vermillionaire

Synopsis:
The life of painter Oscar Bluemner

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1st Produced:
Midway Rock Club, New York    2007

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Paper Beats Rock

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