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Arthur Sainer
Born in New York City, 12 September 1924.
Stage Works
- The Bitch of Waverly Place (produced 1964).
- The Game of the Eye (produced 1964).
- The Day Speaks But Cannot Weep (produced 1965).
- The Blind Angel (produced 1965).
- Untitled Chase (produced 1965).
- God Wants What Men Want (also director: produced 1966).
- The Bombflower (also director: produced 1966).
- The Children's Army Is Late (produced 1967).
- The Thing Itself (produced 1967)..
- Noses (produced 1967).
- OM: A Sharing Service (produced 1968).
- Boat Sun Cavern, music by George Prideaux and Mark Hardwick (produced 1969).
- Van Gogh (produced 1970).
- I Piece Smash (produced 1970).
- I Hear It Kissing Me, Ladies (produced 1970).
- Images of the Coming Dead (produced 1971).
- The Celebration: Jooz/Guns/Movies/The Abyss (produced 1972).
- Go Children Slowly (produced 1973).
- The Spring Offensive (produced 1974).
- Charley Chestnut Rides the I.R.T., music by Sainer (produced 1975).
- Day Old Bread: The Worst Good Time I Ever Had (produced 1976).
- The Rich Man, Poor Man Play, music by David Tice and Paul Dyer (produced 1976).
- Witnesses (also director: produced 1977).
- Carol in Winter Sunlight, music by George Prideaux (produced 1977).
- After the Baal-Shem Tov (produced 1979).
- Sunday Childhood Journeys to Nobody at Home (produced 1980).
TELEVISION PLAYS:
- A New Year for Margaret, 1951;
- The Dark Side of the Moon, 1957;
- A Man Loses His Dog More or Less, 1972.
OTHER
The Sleepwalker and the Assassin: A Study of the Contemporary Theatre. 1964.The Radical Theatre Notebook. 1975.
CRITICAL STUDIES:
"The Greening of American-Jewish Drama" by Ellen Schiff, in Handbook of American Jewish Literature, 1988.