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Contributor:
Jacques Offenbach
Places:
Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1880–1881
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Scene: A small garret room. A door is set in a deep recess at the back; there is another door at right. It is night. Several small children are bedded on wooden benches, and several more are asleep in…
Contributor:
Mark Arnshteyn
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1905
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[Same setting as the first act.
Jonah sits at his workbench. Across from him, on the bench, sits Zilberman. Next to the large table, Miriam stands and mends a shirt. The air shaft window is…
Contributor:
Peretz Hirshbein
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1905
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[A room in early evening shadows. It is the room of a New York suburban working girl.]
[Time: The early Thirties. A bell strikes eight times, probably from the bell tower of a nearby church. Rosie is…
Contributor:
Elisa Lerner
Date:
1964
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Edom:Chase that filthy beggar away from my door!
Jonen:God punishes those who despise the poor.
Israel:Edom sees my tatters and feels…
Contributor:
Daniel Levi de Barrios
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1683/4
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The Woman:I married him and he never gave me any trouble. His mother, she lives with us here. This house is his mother’s house. When we are there, together, in the other room, she lights candles here…
Contributor:
Yehoshua Sobol
Places:
Haifa, Israel
Date:
1976
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Yakhne-Brayne [Reading slowly and with difficulty so that the words run together in a monotone.]:“And God caused the Temple to be destroyed and said, ‘I will remember your sins and you will devour…
Contributor:
David Pinski
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1906
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One year later, a Sunday afternoon. The front room. jacob is giving his son mordecai [uncle morty] a haircut, newspapers spread around the base of the chair. moe is reading a newspaper…
Contributor:
Clifford Odets
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1935