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Nine Contemporary Jewish Plays

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Description for Nine Contemporary Jewish Plays Paperback. Jewish theatre - plays about and usually by Jews - enters the 21st century with a distinguished history. To keep this vibrant tradition alive, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture established the New Play Commissions in Jewish Theatre in 1994. This anthology brings together nine commissioned plays that have gone on to full production. Editor(s): Schiff, Ellen; Posnick, Michael. Num Pages: 587 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 39. Weight in Grams: 932.

Jewish theatre—plays about and usually by Jews—enters the twenty-first century with a long and distinguished history. To keep this vibrant tradition alive, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture established the New Play Commissions in Jewish Theatre in 1994. The commissions are awarded in an annual competition. Their goal is to help emerging and established dramatists develop new works in collaboration with a wide variety of theatres. Since its inception, the New Play Commissions has contributed support to more than seventy-five professional productions, staged readings, and workshops.

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
932 g
Number of Pages
587
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9780292712904
SKU
V9780292712904
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About Ellen Schiff
Ellen Schiff has written extensively on the depiction of Jews on stage. She is most recently the editor of Awake and Singing: Six Great American Jewish Plays. She serves as a juror in the New Play Commissions competition and as advisor to the Global Theatre Initiative in Israel and the Jewish Theatre of Austria. A veteran member of the Association ... Read more

Reviews for Nine Contemporary Jewish Plays
Mainstream readers are encouraged to visit the drama bookshelf to locate this intelligent, probing collection filled with vivid examples of how dramatic literature can humanize moral and social dilemmas by embodying them in the personal irritations and intimacies of daily life.
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