Works
PLAY LIST OF JOEL
SHATZKY’S WORKS: 1974-2007
- All the Angles-2 females, 1 male
A writer wrestles with his work, wife and mistress.
Perf: L.A. and S.F., 1991-92. - Amahlia-2 males, 1 female
An old love reappears in the life of a diplomat who tries to prevent her from making trouble for the future leader of a Latin country.
Perf. Ithaca, N.Y., Brooklyn, NYC.1983, 2007; Scheduled for production Thirteenth Street. Rep;
April, 2007. - Atonement-4 males, 1 female
A dying conductor confronts his past through a memory of his father, and his future in his relationship to his young son.
Perf. Staged reading-NYC, 1985.
Scheduled for prod. Impact Theater—june, 2007 - Baghdad Monologues-3 females
The voices of three women, one Sunni, one Black, one White, as their husbands are swallowed into the mouth of war.
No perf. - The Day They Traded Seaver-5 males, 3 females
An elderly Bronx shop owner finds himself haunted by his past during the Holocaust.
Perf. NYC,1979.EQUITY SHOWCASE. - Edge of the Volcano-3 males, 3 females
Six college students study for finals and tensions build as they discover more about themselves and each other. Perf. SUNY, Cortland, 1980. - Emperor of the West End-large cast
A group of residents at a nursing home in NYC take it over and run it themselves.
Published but never perf. - Eyewitness-3 males, 2 females
An orthodox Jewish woman is murdered in Brooklyn and three of her family members are each under suspicion.
No perf. - Fathers-2 male, 2 female
A family has to get the husband's live-in father to accept the fact that they are moving away from him.
perf. Charlotte, N.C. 1985. - The Gesellschaft-large cast
A farce about a machine that can "clone" anything or one that enters it where the twin is the reverse personality of the original.
SUNY, Cortland, 1975.