Jean-Claude van Itallie: playwright/performer/teacher
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A list of the plays of Jean-Claude van Itallie, review excerpts, rights information and how to get the plays.
performance pieces [written and performed by the author(s)] with photos, reviews and how to book the pieces. where/when Jean-Claude van Itallie will teach his workshop, The Healing Power of Theatre.
a short resume of Jean-Claude van Itallie’s work, his theatrical biography, teaching credits, plays he has directed, and where to get Gene Plunka’s book about him.
the web site of The Shantigar Foundation, "for where artistic and spiritual practices meet," founded and directed by Jean-Claude van Itallie, in Rowe, Massachusetts.
books written by Jean-Claude van Itallie and where to obtain them.
the Jean-Claude van Itallie Collection of papers at Kent State University.
AMERICA HURRAH and OTHER PLAYS

Published by Grove/ Atlantic, NYC, 2001: plays in this volume include War, America Hurrah, The Serpent, Eat Cake, Bag Lady, The Tibetan Book of the Dead or How Not to Do It Again, and The Traveler.

from the introduction by Bill Coco:
This collection of Jean-Claude van Itallie’s plays represents a generous overview of a twenty-five-year span in the career of one of the foremost and most original American playwrights of the last half century.”

 

An earlier edition of America Hurrah and Other Plays was published in 1978 by Grove Press. It is out of print. The 1978 edition includes America Hurrah, The Serpent, A Fable, The Hunter and the Bird, and Almost Like Being.

Performance versions of van Itallie plays may be ordered from Dramatists Play Service.

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BOOKS
America Hurrah
The Playwrights Workbook
Chekhov: The Major Plays
The Tibetan Book of the Dead for Reading Aloud
War, Sex and Dreams, Memoirs of a Playwright
India Journal


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