Meshugah: A Comic TragedyTHE STORY: Set in the 1950s on Manhattan's Upper West Side, MESHUGAH is a tragicomic portrait of a community of recent Jewish émigrés living in the wake of the Holocaust. When Aaron Greidinger, a struggling novelist and advice columnist, falls in l |
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Page 3 - Though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end should greatly increase. For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And prepare thyself to the search of their fathers : For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow : Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out of their heart?
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| Title | Meshugah: A Comic Tragedy Acting Edition for Theater Productions |
| Authors | Emily Mann, Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| Contributor | Dramatists Play Service (New York, N.Y.) |
| Publisher | Dramatists Play Service Inc, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0822219840, 9780822219842 |
| Length | 44 pages |
| Subjects | › › Drama / American / General |
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