One Woman Plays
with and by Jane Marla Robbins

WHICH CONTINUE TO TOUR ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.

REMINISCENCES OF MOZART BY HIS SISTER

Commissioned by the Kennedy Center, Washington D.C. Jane performed it there, at Lincoln Center, and at Mozart festivals all over the United States.

This elegant and searing portrait of Mozart's sister, a brilliant musician in her own right, as well as a passionate and complicated woman, was directed by film maker Robert Gardinier.

Martin Verdrager, of the Kennedy Center, found the play "powerful and affecting."

Fred Noonan, of Lincoln Center, called it "historically accurate and perfectly performed."


DEAR NOBODY

This funny, moving and romantic play about Fanny Burney, the 18th Century English best selling novelist and thirty-five of her friends, who included Samuel Johnson, Mme. DeStael, and King George III, ran for a year Off-Broadway in New York and toured to London and all over the United States.

"Dear Nobody really is a play. Fanny Burney happens to be one of the most interesting people in the whole of 18th Century England. Jane Marla Robbins plays her capitally."
--Clive Barnes, The New York Times

"Robbins' talent for mimicry and her warmth as a performer are astonishing."
--Bill Edwards, Variety

"Bright, funny, warm, kind, this, you feel, is very much the Fanny who captivated London."
--Dan Sullivan, The New York Times

"A true tour de force performance."
--Finona Macarthy, The London Times

"A dazzling display of versatility, surpassing charm and subtlety."
--Will Tusher, The Hollywood Reporter

"Jane Marla Robbins is witty and wonderful."
--Edith Oliver, The New Yorker

MIRIAM'S DANCE

MIRIAM’S DANCE is a one-woman play about Moses's sister, a priestess in her own right, alone on a mountain top, exiled from her people, initially paralyzed with leprosy, talking to God. First angry at God and Moses, through a fearless and searching inventory of herself, full of profound revelations about jealousy, tolerance, love and forgiveness, she comes not only to love God, Moses and herself, but also ends healed and dancing, celebrating life. An uplifting story of the human spirit, its resilience, courage, wisdom and genius. In 1998, MIRIAM’S DANCE was produced in New York at the Kaufman Theatre, directed by Robert Kalfin, and at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, directed by Dana Parness.

“Miriam is one of the most remarkable and least known women of the Bible. With Moses and Aaron she led three million people out of slavery to reach the Promised Land. Jane Marla Robbins' Miriam is a woman linked to God and humankind. Her story is a dramatic odyssey of insight, power, humor, inspiration and fulfillment.”
--Rabbi Stan Levy, Los Angeles

“Jane Marla Robbins is a wonderful writer and brilliant actress. Miriam's Dance speaks powerfully to many issues that we face today…Well researched, original, full of poetry…powerful, funny.”
--The Reverend Van Merle Smith, New York

“Well researched, original, full of poetry…powerful, funny.”
--Rabbi Lorraine Marx, Pennsylvania