PAUL ABLEMAN   (1927 - )


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Plays by Paul Ableman

PAUL ABLEMAN
And Hum Our Sword
1st Produced:
London
1973
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Male
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PAUL ABLEMAN
Black General, The
1st Produced:
London
1969
Company:
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1st Published:
1968
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Shakespeare (Othello)
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PAUL ABLEMAN
Dialogues
1st Produced:
London
1965
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Male
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Female
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PAUL ABLEMAN
Emily And Heathcliff
1st Produced:
London
1967
Company:
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1st Published:
1966
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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PAUL ABLEMAN
Even His Enemy
1st Produced:
London
1951
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Parts:
Male
5
Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
aka Letters To a Lady; Written in collaboration with Gertrude Macauley
Synopsis:
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PAUL ABLEMAN
Green Julia
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1965
Company:
-
1st Published:
Grove Press, New York
1966
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Genre:
Comedy Drama
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Two university students, one a physiologist, the other an economist, have been sharing an apartment, but now one of them is about to depart for work abroad. They also share an enthusiasm for game-playing, and the most active communication between them is expressed through hilarious fantasy-like skits, replete with outlandish accents and parodied characterisations. The departing roommate also has a sometime mistress, a boozy older woman named Julia, whom he would like to bequeath to his friend, and it is his attempts to set this up that bring on the most wildly funny bits of play-acting-leading on, ultimately, to a suddenly serious yet subtly revealing denoueme
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PAUL ABLEMAN
Hank's Night
1st Produced:
London
1968
Company:
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1st Published:
1968
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
in Blue Comedy
Synopsis:
Problems abound when two happily married couples vainly attempt to mount an orgy
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PAUL ABLEMAN
Help!
1st Produced:
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1963
Company:
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Genre:
Revue
Show
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Synopsis:
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PAUL ABLEMAN
Letters To A Lady
1st Produced:
London
1951
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Male
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Female
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Notes:
with Gertrude Macauley
Synopsis:
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PAUL ABLEMAN
Little Hopping Robin
1st Produced:
London
1973
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Entertainment
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Synopsis:
Intended for class work as much as public performance
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PAUL ABLEMAN
Madly In Love
1st Produced:
London
1968
Company:
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1st Published:
1968
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes:
in Blue Comedy
Synopsis:
Attempts to seduce compulsively obedient patient in hospital by Scottish poet who impersonates a psychiatrist in an attempt to cure his own sexual inadequacies
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PAUL ABLEMAN
One Hand Clapping
1st Produced:
Edinburgh
1964
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Revue
Show
Parts:
Male
4
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
music by Richard Peaselee
Synopsis:
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PAUL ABLEMAN
She's Dead
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Ableman, Paul, Tests
1966
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Genre:
Abstract / Surrealist Playlet
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
2 characters
Notes:
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Synopsis:
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PAUL ABLEMAN
Tests
1st Produced:
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1966
Company:
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1st Published:
1966
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Genre:
14 playlets
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
Test One; Johnson; Rose; Help; She's Dead; I Eat; Now That I Am An Old Man; Aliens; Another Lovely Day; Spine; What Is The Penalty For Nostalgia?; Ah Simeon Creel; Emily And Heathcliffe;
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PAUL ABLEMAN
Visitors, The
1st Produced:
London
1974
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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PAUL ABLEMAN
Windsor All-Sorts
1st Produced:
London
1977
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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Synopsis:
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