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THE SPARK OF REASON
Two act play
Revenge, love, betrayal and religious intolerance intertwine with the dramatic events leading up to the excommunication of 25 year old Benedict Spinoza in 1656. Produced in Los Angeles, 2000
DESERT STORIES by Michael Halperin
2 One-Act Play with a common theme
FREUD AT SINAI
2M 2 F
50 Minutes
Comedy. A remarkable encounter between Moses and Sigmund
Freud at the foot of Mt.Sinai immediately after the revelation of the Ten Commandments leads to an argument between the great leader of the Exodus and the father of psychoanalysis. Celebrity Reading Series, 2002; Jewish Theatre of Arizona, 2003
POOR TIMING
1M 1F
30 Minutes
Comedy-drama. God informs Moses that he’s going to die when he reaches the border of the Promised Land. The leader of the Exodus refuses to go even when faced with three determined angels. Arguments escalate and threats erupt until the angry Creator of the Universe decides to intervene.
BED AND BREAKFAST
Two-act play
Comedy, A disillusioned screenwriter and his therapist wife are conned into buying a bed and breakfast only to discover that the pastoral life isn't pastoral and not much of a life.
Suitable for college and older
MELA
One Woman play
A Catholic Polish woman recounts the harrowing true story of her family's rescue of three Jewish children from the Holocaust and keeping them safe for four and a half years under the
threat of exposure.
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