Sweet Nothing in My Ear: A Play in Two Acts

by Stephen Sachs

Genres: Plays, Disability

Paperback

Published January 3, 2000

About the author

Stephen Sachs is the author of eighteen produced plays. They include Fatherland, Human Interest Story, his Deaf/Hearing love story, Arrival & Departure (Critic's Choice, LA Times), his stage adaptation of William Goldman's screenplay for All the President's Men, his stage adaptation of Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric (winner 2016 Stage Raw Award for Best Stage Adaptation, Fountain Theatre and Kirk Douglas in Los Angeles and Pure Theatre, Charleston, SC), Heart Song (Fountain Theatre and Florida Rep), Cyrano (LA Drama Critics Circle Award, Best New Play) and Bakersfield Mist (2012 Elliot Norton Award, Best New Play) which received a 3-month run on London’s West End starring Kathleen Turner and McDiarmid and is now being produced in regional theatres across the country and translated into other languages and being performed worldwide. His other plays are Dream Catcher (Fountain Theatre), Miss Julie: Freedom Summer (Fountain, Vancouver Playhouse), Gilgamesh (Theatre@Boston Court), Open Window (Pasadena Playhouse, Media Access Award), Central Avenue (PEN USA Literary Award Finalist), Sweet Nothing in my Ear (PEN USA Literary Award Finalist, Media Access Award), Mother's Day, The Golden Gate (Best Play Award, Dramalogue), and The Baron in the Trees. He wrote the teleplay for Sweet Nothing in my Ear which aired on CBS starring Marlee Matlin and Jeff Daniels. He was recently honored by the Los Angeles City Council for “his visionary contributions to the cultural life of Los Angeles.” in 2019, LA City Councilmember Mitch O'Farrell hailed Sachs as "One of the great citizens and artists in our city."

Reviews

[E. B. · Rating 4 out of 5]

A primal dilemma of self-identity. A story about a little boy being jerked from one world to another. Which parent gets to decide his fate?