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.
HAROLD

This short play was first performed as part of a workshop production of King of the United States, directed by the author at Theater for the New City in May, 1972.

EXCERPT

MAN DOCTOR: Harold, are you sick or not sick?

HAROLD: Who?

WOMAN DOCTOR: Patient claims illness. However there is no visible external evidence of disappearance upon casual observation....

MAN DOCTOR (cutting off Harold, the dummy’s, foot): Foot.

WOMAN DOCTOR (receiving it): Foot.

MAN DOCTOR: Pending further examination in lab, normal and fit.

WOMAN DOCTOR: Foot normal and fit.

Published by Dramatists Play Service in Seven Short and Very Short Plays by Jean-Claude van Itallie.

Dramatists Play Services: PlayFinder

America Hurrah
The Serpent
Tibetan Book of the Dead
Fear Itself
The Traveller
Monologues and Short Plays
The Girl and the Soldier
Rosary
Take a Deep Breath
Photographs: Mary and Howard
Harold
Thoughts on the Instant
Eat Cake
Bag Lady
Sunset Freeway
Final Orders
Pride
Struck Dumb
Chekhov Adaptations
early plays
Musicals Plays
Other Plays
Other Adaptations
Movie and TV Scripts
Rights
War

 

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