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Adam Baum and the Jew Movie
Adam Baum and the Jew Movie
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Author: Daniel Goldfarb Publisher: Scirocco Drama Format: Softcover # of Pages: 94 Pub. Date: 2002 ISBN-10: 1896239854 ISBN-13: 9781896239859 Cast Size: 2 men, 1 boy
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About the Play:
Adam Baum and the Jew Movie is a full-length comedic drama
by Daniel Goldfarb. A Jewish
studio head is eager to make a movie about anti-semitism. He hires a
successful WASP writer to ensure the script won't be "too
Jewish." Inspired by an actual conversation that reportedly took place in the
1940s between screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr. and Hollywood producer
Samuel Goldwyn concerning a possible movie about anti-Semitism.
Adam Baum and the Jew Movie
takes place in Hollywood in 1946, where famous Jewish movie
mogul Sam Baum (based on MGM's
Samuel Goldwyn) prepares to give notes to Gentile screenwriter
Garfield "Gar" Hampson Jr. on his screenplay about
anti-Semitism. Time is of the essence. Zanuck at Fox has his own "Jew
Movie," Gentleman's Agreement, and America can only take
one. Gar arrives, excited and optimistic. He feels
that with his research into Jewish culture and a good dose of strong
sympathy he can write the ultimate indictment of bigotry in America.
Sam chats him up, but then gets to the point: The script is
too Jewish; Gar has written it "as a Jew, and not as a Gentile."
As the men argue about the script, about what it means to be
American, what it means to be Jewish, their
own ideas about identity come head-to-head, spilling into an evening
spent at the bar mitzvah of Baum's son, Adam.
Adam Baum and the Jew Movie premiered in 1999 at
off-Broadway's McGinn-Cazale Theatre, won the 2000 Oppenheimer Award
for Best New York debut, the Canadian Authors Association Award for
Best Play, and was a Dramatist's Guild Hull-Warriner Award Finalist.
Cast: 2 men, 1 boy
What people say:
"Stocked with uneasy questions
about self-deception and self-hatred." — Time
Magazine
"...comic
genius." — Variety
"The script has a complexity
that is rare by today's dumb-and-dumber standards. Here, after all,
is a play that understands just how insidious prejudice is and also
how racist attitudes can be lurking in the most unexpected places."
— New York
Daily News
About the Playwright:
Daniel Goldfarb is a playwright and educator. He is a
graduate of The Juilliard School and NYU's Department of Dramatic
Writing at Tisch (BFA, MFA), where he is a Professor and Area Head of
Playwriting. Born and educated in Toronto, he lives in New York.
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