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Drama Canadian

The League of Nathans

by (author) Jason Sherman

Publisher
Playwrights Canada Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2003
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780887546570
    Publish Date
    Feb 2003
    List Price
    $12.00

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Description

Nathan Abramowitz, Nathan Glass and Nathan Isaacs form a boyhood club and together grapple with their Jewish faith and identity, until Glass suddenly moves to Israel. Many years later, a telegram summons Abramowitz and Isaacs to a synagogue in Spain for one last meeting of the League of Nathans. An early and brilliant play by critically acclaimed playwright, Jason Sherman.

About the author

Jason Sherman has written extensively for the stage, radio, and television. His plays include Remnants (A Fable); Itâ??s All True; Patience; Reading Hebron; The Retreat; The League of Nathans; An Acre of Time, and Three in the Back, Two in the Head, which won the Governor Generalâ??s Literary Award for Drama. He served as executive story editor and writer on the TV series ReGenesis, earning Gemini and Canadian Screenwriting Award nominations. For CBC Radio he wrote â??National Affairs,â?? â??Irving Invectus,â?? and â??Graf,â?? for which he received the Canadian Screenwriting Award for radio drama. He is currently working on several television, radio and film projects. He lives in Toronto.

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