The Screening Room
Drama
Description:
Jake Sax, a successful cinema verite film maker gets the assignment to do a documentary about his famous Jewish-American grandfather. Estranged from his family for ten years, he has to return to film and interview them. Through a series of interview that begin onstage and develop into the film images Jake is getting, he discovers his roots and his ability to embrace the past.
Production History:
Staged Reading, Aspen Playwrights Conference, Summer, l980, Harold Clurman, Critic-in-Residence
Reading, The Schreiber Studio, NYC, 1981 (with Eli Wallach)
Cast of Characters:
Jake Sax – 32
Bob Yates – 35
Susan Waldheim – 32
Joseph Isaacson – 58
Ruth Reisner – 60
Helena Isaacson – 63
Morton Isaacson – 61
Heshy Isaacson – mid-nineties
Production Notes:
A fluid stage with only props for settings. A screen that can show what is being filmed on stage and the final prerecorded edit.
Drama
Description:
Jake Sax, a successful cinema verite film maker gets the assignment to do a documentary about his famous Jewish-American grandfather. Estranged from his family for ten years, he has to return to film and interview them. Through a series of interview that begin onstage and develop into the film images Jake is getting, he discovers his roots and his ability to embrace the past.
Production History:
Staged Reading, Aspen Playwrights Conference, Summer, l980, Harold Clurman, Critic-in-Residence
Reading, The Schreiber Studio, NYC, 1981 (with Eli Wallach)
Cast of Characters:
Jake Sax – 32
Bob Yates – 35
Susan Waldheim – 32
Joseph Isaacson – 58
Ruth Reisner – 60
Helena Isaacson – 63
Morton Isaacson – 61
Heshy Isaacson – mid-nineties
Production Notes:
A fluid stage with only props for settings. A screen that can show what is being filmed on stage and the final prerecorded edit.
