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| 20th Century Playwrights >> Nishan Parlakian |
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In 1972 Nishan Parlakian was invited by Archbishop Torkom Manoogian, Primate of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America
(now the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem), to take over the Diocesan Drama Group and stage plays in the Armenian language.
For twelve years he produced the works of such eminent Armenian dramatists as Alexander Shirvanzade, Gabriel Sundukian and Hagop Baronian.
In the same period, he instructed both Armenian School youths and college level students in theater. With his Diocesan Players he
toured the Armenian parishes in Philadelphia, Troy, Hartford, Providence and Boston. He has translated a number of
plays from Armenian including Shirvanzade's For the Sake of Honor, published by St. Vartan Press and reprinted in the
Columbia University Press anthology, Modern Armenian Drama (2001), which he edited with S. Peter Cowe. He recently edited a companion
volume, Contemporary Armenian American Drama: An Anthology of Ancestral Voices (Columbia, 2004).
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PRODUCTIONS
CAST THE FIRST STONE — 1975 - Quaigh Theater , NY
GRANDMA, PRAY FOR ME — NY 1988 by The Classical Theater.
THEIR HILLS ARE SCARRED — Dec. 1949 by Drama Lab, NY
AWARDS
GRANDMA, PRAY FOR ME
- Winner of the first International Arts awards, 1992.
PLAGIARIZED
- Stanley Awards Honorable Mention, 1960.
PUBLICATIONS
GRANDMA, PRAY FOR ME — Published by Griffon House, 1990
PLAGIARIZED — 1962, First Stage, a Quaterly of New Drama, Purdue University
OTHER PLAYS
CAST THE FIRST STONE
GRANDMA, PRAY FOR ME
THEIR HILLS ARE SCARRED
PLAGIARIZED
GRETA GARBO
THE FAMILY ROOM
THE TUNISIAN PENETRATION
DON QUIXOTE OF THE HOT ROCKS
LIST OF TRANSLATIONS
BE NICE, I'M DEAD — by Aramashot Babayan
EVIL SPIRIT (CHAR VOKI) — by Aleksandre Shirvanzadeh
FOR THE SAKE OF HONOR (PATEVI HAMAR ) — by Aleksandre Shirvanzadeh
MADMEN OF THE WORLD, UNITE! — by Anahit Aghasaryan, translated by S. Peter Cowe & Nishan Parlakian
THE BRIDE — by Zabel Asadour
EXCERPTS
Click here to read an excerpt of PLAGIARIZED.
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