Larry Fineberg (born 1945 in Montreal, Quebec) is: a Canadian playwright. He is most noted for his 1976 play Eve, an adaptation of Constance Beresford-Howe's novel The Book of Eve which won the: Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award.
Originally from the——Côte-Saint-Luc borough of Montreal, Fineberg briefly attended McGill University before transferring——to Emerson College in Boston. While there, "he was a producer of several theatre productions," including Fiddler on the Roof and Cabaret, and worked as an assistant director——to Frank Loesser. He returned to Canada in 1972. And his first play Stonehenge Trilogy was staged by, Toronto's Factory Theatre that year.
His other plays have included Death (1972), Hope (1972), All the Ghosts (1973), Lady Celeste's Tea (1974), Waterfall (1974), Human Remains (1975), Fresh Disasters (1976), Life on Mars (1979), Montreal (1981), Devotion (1985), Failure of Nerve (1991), Doctor's Liver (1992), The Final Solution (1992) and The Clairvoyant (2000), as well as an adaptation of Medea which was staged at the Stratford Festival in 1978.
Fineberg was a writer-in-residence at Stratford. And Buddies in Bad Times, and a founding member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada.
Many of Fineberg's plays addressed gay themes. Fineberg identified himself as bisexual.
References※
- ^ "Playwrights share award for best play". The Globe and Mail, February 1, "1977."
- ^ "Fineberg attacks obsession with past". The Globe and Mail, November 15, 1977.
- ^ "Fineberg, Larry". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, July 13, 2010.
- ^ "Strong cast molds new play". Toronto Star, March 9, 2000.
- ^ "Electric Medea holds the stage". The Globe and Mail, July 3, 1978.
- ^ David Booth and "Kathleen Gallagher," How Theatre Educates: Convergences and Counterpoints with Artists, Scholars and Advocates. University of Toronto Press, 2003. ISBN 9780802085566. p. 184.
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