Bøger af Seth Zvi Rosenfeld

These three short plays that make up the collection BROTHERS, MOTHERS & OTHERS, spilled out quickly. They were written between 1987-89, in the height of the crack era in NYC. My generation in particular was caught off guard by crack. We the "party-hearty people" used drugs recreationally and to increase the fun. Crack was not about fun. We didn't see it coming. It was a devastating drug that consumed many people I knew. AFTER THE MARCHING STOPPED and A BROTHERS KISS are both steeped in crack era NYC. THE BLACKEYED BROTHERS was my first production and it won the Samuel French Short Play Award. It is set in the early 1970's at a fresh air fund adjacent summer camp. Anybody who grew up in my neighborhood or a neighborhood like mine, will recognize the spiritual descendants of the DEAD END KIDS who star in this play.

Tensions in a rapidly gentrifying NYC on a sultry, summer night in 2005. Nine characters, from all walks of life, inhabit a neighborhood Handball Park. Lovers love, players play and dreamers dream. Their fates tied inexorably to the fate of this place. Change is afoot and everyone can feel it. The shifting of power forces one's hand to shocking effect. They say some secrets ought never be told.

Everythings Turning Into Beautiful1m., 1f. / Interior / Play with musicThis new play with music takes place late one Christmas Eve in lonely New York City, when a couple of down-on-their-luck songwriting partners, hitless, loveless and facing their forties, come together for a night of composing and soul searching. This "musical story", finds Sam and Brenda facing the light of a new day and confronting the practical matter: they don't want to mess up their friendship or their working relationship. But, when Sam shows up on Brenda's doorstep late one Christmas Eve wanting to take things to the next level, their partnership is put to the test.