Voices From Ariel: Ten-Minute Plays Reflecting the Jewish Experience
By Julianne Bernstein, Daniel Brenner, Hindi Brooks, Michael Elkin, Leslie B. Gold, Vivian Green, and Louis Greenstein.
Product Code: V29000
Collection
Comedy | Drama
Cast size: 7m., 10w. (Fewer possible. Each play has 1 to 3 characters.)
Rights and availability
Please note: The titles in this collection must be licensed through the collection book itself. None of the titles within have a separate playbook.
* Please note the royalty rate listed is the minimum royalty rate per performance. The actual royalty rate will be determined upon completion of a royalty application.
Synopsis
This unique collection of 10 short plays was commissioned and produced by Theatre Ariel, one of the country's leading theater companies dedicated to Jewish culture through the medium of new plays. Some plays are about contemporary Jewish life, others are about Jewish women, while the rest are based on stories and characters from the Old Testament, giving them a theatrical and very modern up-to-date twist.
Details
- Status In stock
- Type of Show Collection
- Product Code V29000
- Pages of Dialogue 88
- Min. Royalty Rate $15.00/perf
- Staging Simple set.
Categories
- Target Audience High School | College and Adult
- Performing Group High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre
- Genre Comedy | Drama
- ISBN(13) 9780871298959
Included Titles
Class Act By Michael Elkin.
A widow registers for everything from cooking to clowning at the local Y.
- Product Code: CA7000
- Genre: Comedy
- Cast Size: 1w.
- Approx. Run Time: 10 min.
License Available:
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The Foot Peddler By Vivian Green
A bumbling peddler tells of selling his wares in 19th-century Pennsylvania.
- Product Code: F65000
- Genre: Drama
- Cast Size: 1m.
- Approx. Run Time: 10 min.
License Available:
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The Ger (The Convert) By Leslie B. Gold and Louis Greenstein.
A recent convert tries to rally support from family and friends.
- Product Code: G72000
- Genre: Drama
- Cast Size: 1m., 2w.
- Approx. Run Time: 10 min.
License Available:
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A Golden Opportunity By Julianne Bernstien.
A clever Midrash biblical interpretation: a talking golden calf speaks out on worshiping idols.
- Product Code: G67000
- Genre: Comedy
- Cast Size: 1m., 2 either gender
- Approx. Run Time: 10 min.
License Available:
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In Spite of Everything By Hindi Brooks.
A mother and daughter renew each other's faith while trapped in a Tel Aviv apartment during an Iraq scud attack.
- Product Code: I64000
- Genre: Drama
- Cast Size: 2w.
- Approx. Run Time: 10 min.
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An Interview With a Scapegoat By Louis Greenstein.
In this clever Midrash biblical interpretation, a reporter is taken to task when she tries to get her story on the hottest goat in the wilderness!
- Product Code: I63000
- Genre: Comedy
- Cast Size: 2 either gender
- Approx. Run Time: 10 min.
Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
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Through Collection
Single Jewish Female By Julianne Bernstien
A young woman enters a newspaper office to place a personal ad.
- Product Code: SD5000
- Genre: Comedy
- Cast Size: 1m., 2w.
- Approx. Run Time: 10 min.
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Smoke By Louis Greenstein.
A disquisition on cigars, memory and the Sabbath.
- Product Code: SD6000
- Genre: Drama
- Cast Size: 1m.
- Approx. Run Time: 10 min.
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'Til Death Do Us Plots By Julianne Bernstein.
Newly divorced and "dead" Art and Lucille are stuck for eternity and some everlasting "kvetching" in a double coffin.
- Product Code: TB4000
- Genre: Comedy,Drama
- Cast Size: 1m., 2w.
- Approx. Run Time: 10 min.
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Where's Your Stuff? By Daniel Brenner.
A young man who has given up his faith is haunted in the middle of the night by the spirit of his long-departed bar mitzvah coach, Cantor Birnbaum.
- Product Code: W85000
- Genre: Comedy,Drama
- Cast Size: 2m., 1w.
- Approx. Run Time: 10 min.
License Available:
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