Plays by Sybil Rosen
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A backward look at a southern-Jewish family history spanning three generations of funerals. This tragicomedy in three acts explores grief, memory, inheritance - financial, emotional, and psychological - and the intertwined destinies that bind us whether we want them to or not.
Act 2: Reuben & Son Produced at Circle Repertory and The Pacific Residents Theatre
Brink of Devotion
Severe flooding unexpectedly brings reclusive middle-aged naturalist Sass Kaplan together with two runaways - a gifted drifter named Lucky Starr, and his girlfriend, J.J. Johnson, a bright but damaged teenager. When J.J.'s pregnancy - and her fear of it - are revealed, the three must confront their deepest longings and their darkest selves. An exploration of life and death and the responsibility we have to each.
Participant in the Sundance Playwriting Institute in Provo, Utah 1986
Curves
Set in 1985, two long-time lovers in an open relationship must re-assess their intimacy and their lives in the age of AIDS.
Produced at Circle Repertory; the Venice Theater Festival; Harvard University; and Hampshire College.
Sis Boom Baa
A one-act comedy about three football widows on a snowy New Year’s Day, partying in the kitchen while their men watch football on TV offstage. Joined by a disgruntled newlywed fed up with ESPN, the women must tackle and defend the rigors and realities of marriage and football.
Produced in New York City, Dallas, and Los Angeles
Published by Samuel French 1989
Duet for Bear and Dog
A conversation between a cornered bear and a pampered dog, interrupted by three hapless humans - a love-starved Russian facialist who owns the dog, and two wildlife biologists intent on capturing the bear. Over a hundred productions in the U.S., Canada, England and Australia.
Take Ten: New Ten-Minute Plays, Edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold, Vintage Press, 1997
Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft by Janet Burroway, Penguin Academics 2003
Last of the Speckled Catfish
In the middle of the night, a fish biologist and his wife secretly transport the last breeding pair of a rare species of catfish to a remote mountain ridge. The biologist intends to release the fish into a pool that will sustain them - until he and his wife find themselves lost and exhausted, not to mention hungry. The play will be read in the New Plays Festival at SUNY-New Paltz, April 8 - 10, 2011.
A finalist in the 2008 National Ten-Minute Play Contest co-sponsored by The Actors Theatre of Louisville and The City Theater of Miami.
Author en loco
A frantic author steals into a local library to re-write her book, only to find one more revision waiting there for her. Written as a benefit for The Rural Library Project, Whitesburg, Georgia.
Theater Brut, New Jersey Rep, Long Branch, N.J. November 2006
The Shandaken Theater Society, Phoenicia, N.Y. September 2007