Marc Sapir
Berkeley, CA

Plays

by marc sapir

A grandmother learns from deceased elders that the two African American grandsons she raised have been ambushed by police, one murdered, the other charged with murder.  A mystery and conspiracy unfold.  

Cast:
it's listed in the play.
by marc sapir

An orphaned holocaust survivor sent to Israel after WWII--now in his late 60s-- is on trial for his associations with Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.  

Cast:
see the script
by marc sapir

An aspiring young woman playwright takes a college course requiring her to write a play based upon Shakespeare including a fool.  She puts together a panoramic dystopian comedic drama  that borrows from Hamlet, Othello, Lear and the tragic US war on and occupation of Iraq under W.---beyond the "mouse trap" come plays within a play within a play.  

Cast:
see script
by marc sapir

After appearing as a crow, an eagle and an elephant, God gets hella frustrated with humans and turns to terrorism--a one act in 3 scenes.  

Cast:
funky playwright, wife, stage manager, 2 FBI agents.
by marc sapir

a 5 minute dystopian comedy in which 3 diasporans lost in a desert try to find out what the hell is going on.  

Cast:
a woman, a white male, an African American male.

Successes

Retired primary care and public health physician.  Five plays on social justice themes: Zara's Faith (2001), 3 staged readings 2015; The Trial of Mordechai Pentateuch (2007); Fool's Gold (2018); a brief, Lost and Found, won staged reading at a festival; In God we Trust (2003 a one-act).