3 Plays

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Padua Playwrights Press, 1981 - Drama - 296 pages

Joe & Betty brings us into the darkly comic world of an impoverished, disintegrating family in the Catskills of the 1950s. 16 Routines takes us on a surreal comic journey into a panicked mind of an actor who has forgotten his lines. Mrs. Feuerstein depicts a Holocaust survivor plotting revenge on a German couple by writing them into her play.

Brooklyn-born Murray Mednick founded the Padua Hills Playwrights workshop/Festival (now Padua Playwrights) in 1978. He was honored with the American Theater Critic's Association Best New Play Citation for Joe & Betty in 2002, and has received two Rockefeller grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an OBIE and several Bay Area Critics Awards.

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Introduction by Guy Zimmerman
5
Joe and Betty
115
Mrs Feuerstein
211
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Murray Mednick founded the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival and the related playwright's workshop in 1978. He was honored with the American Theater Critic's Association's Best New Play Citation for Joe and Betty in 2002, and has received two Rockefeller grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an OBIE, and several Bay Area Critics Awards. Brooklyn-born, Mednick now lives in Los Angeles.

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