Karen Sunde
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ME & JOAN (formerly titled La Pucelle) was conceived and directed by Ken Marini at Cheltenham Center for the Arts. In an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, he said: "Joan is a spiritual woman, but she has lost her physical self, and Lili is a very physical woman who has lost her spiritual self. They are like a single woman who has been divided, and it's time to reunite the two selves…""Joan projects magnificent power and grace, while Lili...
2) Radio Plays
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Radio opens a direct link to the audience' imagination. Sound alone telling a story is instantly absorbed onto the mind's creative canvas, and the resulting composition will be personal and intimate to a higher degree than that of any other medium.My first radio assignment was also the first play I ever wrote. Initiated and produced for the National Foundation For The Blind by the Iowa State University Radio Players, it won the Bob Hope Award. The...
3) Liberty
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"(George Washington) cut a dubious figure. He fell into greatness as if it were a chasm and he has suddenly found a parachute. This making of the hero least likely, Miss Sunde has captured in her play. She has also caught the mood of the revolution... She also exposes the remarkable image of a democracy fighting with men who were bound by nothing... ...a nervous amateur ... becomes the legendary figure..." Clive Barnes NEW YORK POST"With a voice both...
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SWEET LAND OF FIRE explores the question: what tips exceptional young people toward political violence? The play is an imagining of what could have gone on in this elegant New York townhouse during the 24 hours before it exploded – shaking the nation – on a solar eclipse day in March 1970. At that time, the anguish of our brightest youths – over wrongful war, race divisions, poverty, and greed in this country – led them to plant bombs, (the...
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A Solo Play - Anton, Himself: First & LastThe 2nd most produced playwright in the worldfinds you in his studyand confides in youYour First act happens October 18, 1896, the day after Chekhov's disastrous opening of The Seagull.Your Last act happens January 16, 1904, the day before Chekhov's triumphant & final opening - of The Cherry Orchard.Both days are challenging in the extreme, but essential to him, and for us.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Production HistoryAnton,...
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"Please God, No Wedding or Shooting at the End has Chekhov and Masha on stage while he writes The Seagull under the influence of Hamlet … Sunde imagines Chekhov returning from a production of which he must now review (except that a new play forms in his mind. Surrounded by Shakespeare's characters plus creations of his own, Chekhov turns into . She also weaves Chekhov's own life into his creative process, as his friend Levitan's suicide attempts...
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Martin Denton, founder of NYTheatre.com made this play his "Top Recommendation of the Week," saying:"When Real Life Begins is an extraordinary solo play about passion, love, and theatre. … a single, long, breathless strand of stream-of-consciousness, moving backward and forward through time and in and out of Anne's mind and memory."There are two stories in When Real Life Begins, inextricably linked but oppositely arced. One is tragic: the death…from...
8) Kabuki-West
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Kabuki versions of classic stories in which – ghostly spinners of fate, with KABUKI MACBETH's severed heads, hanging sword and resounding temple bell recount humans metamorphosing to demons, while KABUKI RICHARD III presents him as Shiva, the god dancing creation and destruction, and exposes a hidden family drama to make the Borgias blush, and ACHILLES' war-prize concubine relates his rage, his sea goddess mother enchants, he dances his fight with...