Barrie Stavis

Playwright, Author

1906 – 2007

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Who was Barrie Stavis?

Barrie Stavis was a distinguished American playwright. He has authored several powerful plays about men struggling in the vortex of history. They advocate ideas, suffer, often are executed, but eventually their ideas win. The heresy of one age becomes the established truth of the next. His subjects include scientist Galileo, abolitionist John Brown, and labor leader Joe Hill. His play, Lamp at Midnight, about Galileo's struggle with the Catholic Church to get his ideas accepted, was performed and televised on the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1966. Melvyn Douglas starred as Galileo.

Stavis's plays can be done on a clean, simple stage. They have been translated into 28 languages and have been produced in dozens of major theaters around the world and in numerous college theaters.

Barrie Stavis was actively involved in all his work until his death on February 2, 2007, at the age of 100.

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Born
Jun 16, 1906
United States of America
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Died
Feb 2, 2007
United States of America

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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