Larry Fineberg

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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. [1]

Originally from the Côte-Saint-Luc borough of Montreal, Fineberg briefly attended McGill University [2] before transferring to Emerson College in Boston. [3] 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. [3] He returned to Canada in 1972, and his first play Stonehenge Trilogy was staged by Toronto's Factory Theatre that year. [3]

His other plays have included Death (1972), [3] Hope (1972), [3] All the Ghosts (1973), Lady Celeste's Tea (1974), Waterfall (1974), Human Remains (1975), [3] Fresh Disasters (1976), Life on Mars (1979), Montreal (1981), [3] Devotion (1985), [3] Failure of Nerve (1991), Doctor's Liver (1992), The Final Solution (1992) and The Clairvoyant (2000), [4] as well as an adaptation of Medea which was staged at the Stratford Festival in 1978. [5]

Fineberg was a writer-in-residence at Stratford and Buddies in Bad Times, [3] and a founding member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada. [3]

Many of Fineberg's plays addressed gay themes. [3] Fineberg identified himself as bisexual. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Playwrights share award for best play". The Globe and Mail , February 1, 1977.
  2. ↑ "Fineberg attacks obsession with past". The Globe and Mail , November 15, 1977.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Fineberg, Larry". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, July 13, 2010.
  4. ↑ "Strong cast molds new play". Toronto Star , March 9, 2000.
  5. ↑ "Electric Medea holds the stage". The Globe and Mail , July 3, 1978.
  6. ↑ 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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