Best Revenge: How the Theater Saved My Life and Has Been Killing Me Ever Since

Best Revenge is an inside look at contemporary theater and a playwright's shrewd, cutting, yet ultimately sympathetic portrayal of today's America. A quirky, funny, bittersweet chronicle of the struggle and success of an American playwright who realizes his dream: to work with legendary director Joseph Chaikin.

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Best Revenge: How the Theater Saved My Life and Has Been Killing Me Ever Since

Best Revenge is an inside look at contemporary theater and a playwright's shrewd, cutting, yet ultimately sympathetic portrayal of today's America. A quirky, funny, bittersweet chronicle of the struggle and success of an American playwright who realizes his dream: to work with legendary director Joseph Chaikin.

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Best Revenge: How the Theater Saved My Life and Has Been Killing Me Ever Since

Best Revenge: How the Theater Saved My Life and Has Been Killing Me Ever Since

by Stephen Fife
Best Revenge: How the Theater Saved My Life and Has Been Killing Me Ever Since

Best Revenge: How the Theater Saved My Life and Has Been Killing Me Ever Since

by Stephen Fife

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Overview

Best Revenge is an inside look at contemporary theater and a playwright's shrewd, cutting, yet ultimately sympathetic portrayal of today's America. A quirky, funny, bittersweet chronicle of the struggle and success of an American playwright who realizes his dream: to work with legendary director Joseph Chaikin.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940011445644
Publisher: Cune Press
Publication date: 07/26/2011
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Stephen Fife’s plays have been produced in NYC at Jewish Rep, Playhouse 91, Primary Stages, Circle Rep Lab, La Mama, Theater for the New City, the Samuel Beckett Theater, and many other venues. Break of Day, his play about van Gogh’s early career, was given a Hollywood production that prompted one critic to write, “It leads lovers of theater to have hope that there is a future for brilliant writers.” (That makes two of us.) His work has also been done at 7 Stages in Atlanta, and other regional and college theaters.


He is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia’s School of the Arts, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Village Voice, and New Republic. He has received several grants and awards, including a Federal writing grant, which seemed like a big deal at the time. He is currently at work on several new projects, including an 11-book cycle called A Short History Of a People Who Can’t Remember a Thing About Their History.


Table of Contents

Acknowledgements4
Glossary5
1A Brief History of Chopped Liver7
2I Know What the "F." Stands for in F. Murray Abraham13
3Jews Don't Pray with Clasped Hands29
4"Yo!" (or "Oy!")43
5Franz Kafka and Neil Simon Walk into a Bar59
6"The World's Greatest Humus" and Other Conspiracies75
7LOL (Laugh Out Loud), Part 187
8The Asswipe or The Day Beckett Got Lost at the Mall93
9The Adapter Directs103
10LOL, Part 2113
11Bread 'n Butter, Is That Your Mutter?117
12LOL, Part 3129
13The Question of the Rain, or How Wet Should the Whores Get?131
14LOL, Part 4141
15It's Like Tennessee Williams Meets the X-Files, Ya Know?145
16LOL, Part 5159
17Up in the Air with Mom and John Glenn161
18The Secret of My Success173
19Meshuggeneh Litvaks of the World, Unite!183
20Terminal187
21Okay, Now I'm Really Ending It. Really195
Coda
Every Ending Is a New Beginning (or So They Say in LA)199
Fringe Benefits
1Tributes to Joe Chaikin201
2The Boomerang and the Jewish Dentist206
3God of Vengeance209
4Index239
Author Bio240
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