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Sinan Unel

SINAN UNEL  (1958 - )

 Nationality:    USA/Turkish
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Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency  

Sinan Unel's plays have been produced at: the Huntington Theatre Company, the Long Wharf Theater, the Arcola Theatre (London), Boston Playwrights' Theatre, the Lark Theatre Company (New York), the Gate Theatre (London), Provincetown Theatre Company, Provincetown Theatreworks, Landes-Theater (Germany), Theater Kosmos (Austria), Theatre at Boston Court (Pasadena, CA). Sinan has been awarded the John Gassner Memorial Award, the Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award, and was a fellow with the Huntington Theatre Company from 2003 to 2005. His script Race Point was the winner of the 2001 New Century Writer Award for best screenplay. He's currently developing a new play, NEW LIFE, at the Lark Theater Company in New York.

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

         Cry of the Reed         Fantasia Fair         Lost Gospels of Blankenburg, The         Mad Person's Chronicle of a Miserable Marriage, A         New Life         Pathetique         Peck of Dust, A         Pera Palas         Prophet's Wife , The         Single Lives         Thalassa My Heart         Three Cups, The

Cry of the Reed

Synopsis:
A journalist and her colleague find themselves unexpectedly "detained" by a band of insurgents as bombs rain down on a wartorn landscape. Her captors offer her one telephone call - a chance to reconnect with the mother she hasn't spoken to in 10 years, now living in Turkey and preparing for a festival celebrating the great Sufi poet Rumi. History, religion, and the beauty of whirling dervishes collide in this powerful, ripped-from-the-headlines portrait of a world at war.

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1st Produced:
Boston Center for the Arts    2007

Organisations:
the Huntington Theater Company

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Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Fantasia Fair

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Organisations:
New African Theatre

1st Published:
in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume I, Bakers Plays,    -

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Lost Gospels of Blankenburg, The

Synopsis:
theft and intrigue over a German treasure stolen during WW II. Benjamin, an affable eccentric southerner, has no clue of the monetary value of the objects he loves.

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1st Produced:
Provincetown, MA    1993

Organisations:
Provincetown Theater Company

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Mad Person's Chronicle of a Miserable Marriage, A

Synopsis:
Unel is a talented, award-winning playwright who's clever, fast paced dialogue exposes the lives of the Tolstoy's with wit and. . .great insight. - MaryJo Avellar, Provincetown Advocate.

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1st Produced:
Stage Left Studio
214 West 30th Street, 6th floor, New York, NY, New York 10001    06 Nov 2011

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New Life

Synopsis:
In order to satisfy the demands of reparative therapy, Luke must take some drastic steps: aside from forming non-sexual relationships with his macho peers, he must also establish a supportive relationship with his distant father who navigates a life-altering crisis of his own.

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Currently under development At the Lark Play Development Center, New York.

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Pathetique

Synopsis:
In the fall of 1893, Tchaikovsky is in Petersburg to conduct his 6th Symphony Pathetique, the darkest and most mysterious of his works. Five days after the premiere of the symphony, which, by the composer's own admission, is imbued with a "subjective and secret program," Tchaikovsky is dead. Ten years later the composer's brother Modest and nephew Bobyk continue to endure the effects of the unrelenting gossip, doubts and speculation surrounding the the composer's death and the symphony's unrevealed subject. Through a narrative that weaves between the events of 1893 and 1903, playwright Unel explores the nature of art and the artist's precarious relationship to his audience and his work.

Notes:
Pathetique was developed during A residency At the Huntington theater Company where it received A public reading.

1st Produced:
Huntington Theatre Co. (Boston U.), Boston, USA    2006

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Peck of Dust, A

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Organisations:
Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre Company

1st Published:
in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume 2, Bakers Plays,    -

Music:
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Pera Palas

Synopsis:
Pera Palas' three intertwined stories embrace no less than the destiny of a nation, the liberation of women and the fate of lovers. All are linked to guests at the venerable Pera Palas Hotel in Istanbul. With its action stretching from the last days of the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople in 1918 to the reincarnated Istanbul of the Republic of Turkey in 1994, ''Pera Palas'' pulses with passion and questing intelligence. Taking a long view of history and gazing clear-eyed and unflinchingly at the consequences of political and personal decisions, ''Pera Palas'' is ialight with comic touches. - Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times - June 1998

Notes:
Pera Palas has been produced in New York And regionally As well As London, Austria And Germany.

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Organisations:
Lark Theater Company

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Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Prophet's Wife , The

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Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre Company

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Single Lives

Synopsis:
We encounter Eric and Frank in two separate times of their lives, as young and older men. their past and present unfold together as they face and try to come to terms with the choices, secrets and rewards of a life spent together. the earlier and later threads unfold over parallel lines. While the 1996 story moves forward, the 1939 story moves backward.

Notes:
SINGLE LIVES was workshopped And produced At Boston Playwright's theater.

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Organisations:
Boston Theatre Works

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Thalassa My Heart

Synopsis:
A group of eccentrics deal with life's uncertainties in the dunes of Cape Cod.

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1st Produced:
Provincetown, MA    1991

Organisations:
Provincetown Theater Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Three Cups, The

Synopsis:
Greg expects blissful, monogamy with Paul. While Paul is away one night, his ex-lover Mike arrives to bring Greg some disturbing revelations about Paul's past. In this structurally inventive play, three college-age gay men wrestle with the uncertainties of burgeoning sexuality.

Notes:
Originally produced At the University of Kansas in 1982, this play subsequently went to productions in New York, Boston And Provincetown.

1st Produced:
Real Prophet Theater Company, NY    1990

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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