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When She Danced

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  5w, 3m

"A fascinating play.... A comic portrait of a Bohemian salon in both joy and extremis, as the calling of high art meets the low farce of insistent creditors, ludicrous lovers and unexpected guests. The very inexplicability of Isadora's art becomes ..…

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    5w, 3m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Biography, Period, Docudrama/History

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Summary

New York's Playwrights Horizons had a success starring Elizabeth Ashley as the legendary Isadora Duncan. The acclaimed author of Bent brings us Paris 1923, and Duncan's desperate attempts to keep herself financially solvent to realize her dream of retirement : a school in Italy to teach young dancers her art while distracted by her mercurial husband, a poet who only speaks Russian, as well as various acolytes, through whose eyes we glimpse the greatness of Isadora "when she danced".

M3 (19, 20s, 30s) F5 (17, 40s).

  • Time Period 1920s
  • Features Period Costumes

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Martin Sherman

Martin Sherman is an American screenwriter and playwright. Sherman is an openly gay Jew and has lived in London since 1980. He attended the Boston University College of Fine Arts, and received a BFA in dramatic arts in 1960. Sherman’s most successful film was adapted from the ...

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