Plays by Michael Brady
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Description
This collection includes three full-length plays: TO GILLIAN ON HER 37TH BIRTHDAY, TWO BEARS BLINKING, and KORCZAK’S CHILDREN. TO GILLIAN ON HER 37TH BIRTHDAY: A grieving widower must accept his wife’s death to save himself and his relationship with his daughter. TWO BEARS BLINKING: Mysterious lights appearing on canyon wall attract a group of people to a ranch in New Mexico. KORCZAK’S CHILDREN: The story of Janusz Korczak who strove to give the children of the Warsaw Ghetto a sense of normalcy despite the horrific conditions.
Plays in This Collection
Press Quotes
TO GILLIAN ON HER 37TH BIRTHDAY
“… Though TO GILLIAN begins as a simple dramatization of its hero’s obsessive mourning, it gradually expands to become a richer form of family drama … [Mr Brady] writes with a rueful sophistication that keeps his story’s sentimentality at bay … TO GILLIAN is peppered with sharp, evenhanded observations about the tenuous ties that connect husbands and wives and parents and children … if TO GILLIAN is a play that sends a ghost flying out of [the] heavens, its appeal derives from its author’s keen sensitivity to life down here on earth.” —Frank Rich, The New York Times
“This first major work by Michael Brady has well-dimensioned characters, solid conflict, piquant writing and gives off a warm, affirmative glow … When it has become not uncommon to encounter plays with no sympathetic characters, audiences will respond affectionately to everyone In GILLIAN. Working on a small canvas, the author is in impressive control of his material …” —Richard Hummler, Variety
TWO BEARS BLINKING
“A play with a fresh point of view that combines compassion, a sense of humor, and emotional honesty, with complex, articulate characters who merit sympathy and attention.” —Miami Herald
“A memory play — mysterious and poetic.” —Miami Backstage
KORCZAK’S CHILDREN
“KORCZAK’S CHILDREN draws its drama from the reality of the Warsaw Ghetto — honest, relentless and heartbreaking.” —Will Sonzski, Boston College Biweekly
“Within every great tragedy there are small tragedies. And because they are simpler to grasp, the numbers more manageable, small tragedies wring our souls more painfully than the large. KORCZAK’S CHILDREN is a wrenching story dramatically told.” —James Brady, Advertising Age
Author
Michael BradyMichael created Berkshire Voices, Great Barrington Public Theater's ongoing workshop for Berkshire area playwrights. His play REUNION marked the 2025 launch of Stepping Up: Plays in Development, the theater's program of staged readings. Also with Great Barrington Public: readings of THE GROUP and QUEEN OF THE SEA. Barrington Stage Company's 10x10 New Play Festival produced his plays PIPELINE and IF I GO FIRST. Other stage works include TO GILLIAN ON HER 37TH BIRTHDAY, developed by Ensemble Studio Theatre and produced as a film by Sony Pictures; SARA, Equity Library Theatre at Lincoln Center; SEMPER FI, Gloucester Stage Company, HARD TIMES, Main Street Stage, North Adams; and TWO BEARS BLINKING, New Theatre, Miami. Michael is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Ensemble Studio Theatre. His published works are available from Broadway Play Publishing.
Book Information
| Publisher | BPPI |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 9/1/2002 |
| Pages | 156 |
| ISBN | 9780881452082 |