Award Winning Plays

THE LITERARY WORKS OF JOVANKA BACH Produced and directed by John Stark (ph.818 222 6031) I was rummaging through my dear deceased wife Jovanka Bach’s belongings, when I uncovered a hidden treasure – a never before seen copy of a play entitled Night song For The Boatman, which she had written over twenty years ago, and filed away without telling me about it. And when I read it I was utterly amazed. I immediately went into production with the piece, which I found as fascinating as the best works of Albee, Beckett and Ionesco. It deals with a character she called, Harry Appleman, an aging, alcoholic, washed-up poet, plays dice with fate, and loses. He is called upon to make a mysterious boat trip, by voices from the wilderness, but through various cunning contrivances he tries to avoid his mortality. Then he discovers his humanity when he learns he can’t sacrifice his daughter Jessie, for the boat trip, but a tricky graduate student, Gordon Levy will do instead. The “Let’s Talk Off-Broadway” reviewer Yvonne Korshak praised the production I staged at Barrow Group Theatre, calling it “a skillfully crafted play, beautifully acted and designed, a totally enjoyable and rewarding evening of theatre.”