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Isaac Bashevis Singer

ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER

  (1902 - 1991)
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Susan Schulman Literary Agency  estate

Isaac Bashevis Singer (November 21, 1902 - July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish author in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. The Polish form of his birth name was Icek Hersz Zynger.[ He used his mother's first name in an initial literary pseudonym, Izaak Baszewis, which he later expanded to the form under which he is now known. He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, writing and publishing only in Yiddish. He also was awarded two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children's Literature for his memoir A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (1970) and one in Fiction for his collection, A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1974). - wiki

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below is a list of Isaac Bashevis Singer's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Dead Fiddler, The         Demons and Dybbuks         Enemies, A Love Story         From the Diary Of One Not Born         Gimpel the Fool         Last Friend,the         Teibele and Her Demon         Yentl

Dead Fiddler, The

Synopsis:
the spirit (dybbuk) of a musician inhabits the body of a 17 year old girl. When she opens her mouth, his voice comes out. the spirit betwitches the community, exposing their dirty secrets and captivating them with ribald tales. This continues for several nights until the usually sedate and religious village becomes a carnival of dancing and anarchy. the girls parents are traumatised and call on several Rabbis to exorcise the dyubbuk but instead another spirit, this time a dead prostitute, enters the girl's body and fights with the fiddler for sole occupancy. . .

Notes:
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer; adapted by David Zoob; music by Roderick Skeaping

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Organisations:
Sacred And Profane

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Genre:
Play with music

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  5            Other:  extras. Can be doubled for a cast of 9: 5M 4F

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Demons and Dybbuks

Synopsis:
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Notes:
From Stories By Isaac Bashevis Singer

1st Produced:
Northcott, Exeter     1998

Organisations:
Method & Madness

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Enemies, A Love Story

Synopsis:
Enemies, a Love Story is an adaptation of a shocking novel with unique characters and unpredictable sequence of events. the action takes place in the New York Jewish community in the 1940s-1950s. Herman Broder, the main character, in a twisted turn of events, finds himself being a husband of three different women at the same time. One of them-Yadwiga-is his former Polish peasant servant. the second one is his beloved mistress Masha. the third one is Tamara-his lawful wife, who he thought had been long dead. Out of the blue, Tamara shows up in New York and finds Herman. Each one of these women lays her claim on Herman, and each one is dear to him in her own way. . . Based on the novel Enemies, A Love Story by Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer.
- nytheatre.com

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Organisations:
Jerico productions

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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From the Diary Of One Not Born

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Genre:
One Act

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Gimpel the Fool

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Last Friend,the

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Teibele and Her Demon

Synopsis:
a Polish Jewish village, a hundred years ago, woman's husband disappears and she cannot remarry until he is declared dead - enter the daemons

Notes:
written with Eve Friedman

1st Produced:
Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York     16 Dec 1979

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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York, 1984   -

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Genre:
Fable

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Yentl

Synopsis:
a rabbi's daughter in 19th century Poland has studied the Torah and refuses to play the hausfrau role traditionally allotted to Jewish women

Notes:
written with Leah Napolin Based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's Short Story 'Yentl the Yeshiva Boy'

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1977   -

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  8            Other:  -

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