A SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. TITLE

Istanboul

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  5w, 4m

NOTICE: Please be advised, this title is from the Samuel French Vault and is made from a scan of an archived manuscript. We hope you’ll treasure this glimpse into theatre history.

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    5w, 4m
Accolades
Accolades
  • Winner! 1963 Obie Award, Best New Play

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Summary
Set in 15th century Constantinople. Getting riches, religion and love in the turbulent and doomed queen of cities, 15th -century Constantinople. This exiciting play has had three New York productions and won Obie awards for two actresses in the fabulously rich part of St. Mary of Egypt.
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

Media

"This is poetry, not naturalism. Miss Owens, with her anthropological bent, explores cultures and myths and primitive rites and mixes them in a heady, sensuous brew unlike any other writer I know. She is an original and I find her work fascinating. IST SFI Standard-FL Standard No Maybe No No It 11671 Title Short Play Dramatic Comedy Bare Stage/Simple Set Unique and thought provoking with an ideal mixture of comedy and absurdist theatre. It begins with a solitary man standing in the center. He is tagged and proclaimed it" by a younger man who darts onto the stage. The Man then sets out to either discover what "it" is or, if nothing else, to pass "it" off on someone else. The audience shares the confusion and frustration the Man feels, but the pieces eventually come together so that the mysterious nature of "it" becomes quite clear.

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  • Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

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Rochelle Owens

A prominent figure in the international avant-garde for 50 years, Rochelle Owens is a poet, playwright, translator and video artist. She has published over 18 books of poetry, most recently Hermaphropoetics, Drifting Geometries (2017), Out of Ur: New & Selected Poems 1961-201 ...

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