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PAUL ABLEMAN (1927 - 2006) |
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Nationality: English Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Jonathan Clowes Ltd |
Paul Ableman was born June 13, 1927, in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. In 1958, his first novel, I HEAR VOICES, was published in Paris, then later in England, where it received critical acclaim. After writing AS NEAR AS I CAN GET in 1962, he began to write short surrealistic plays which were first performed at the Edinburgh Festivals. The world premiere of his first full-length play, GREEN JULIA, was staged at the 1965 Edinburgh Festival by Traverse Theatre productions; it was then transferred to the New Arts Theatre in London, where it ran successfully. Ableman has continued to write for the theater, television, as well as a range of experimental prose.
Plays by Paul Ableman
And Hum Our Sword | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1973 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #62 | |||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Black General, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1969 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #63 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Shakespeare (Othello) | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Blue Comedy | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Methuen | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0416129205 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #105365 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dialogues | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1965 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #64 | |||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Emily And Heathcliff | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1967 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #65 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Even His Enemy | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1951 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | aka Letters To a Lady; Written in collaboration with Gertrude Macauley | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Green Julia | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1965 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Grove Press, New York, 1966 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hank's Night | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1968 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #68 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | in Blue Comedy | |||||
Synopsis: | Problems abound when two happily married couples vainly attempt to mount an orgy | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Help! | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1963 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #38869 | |||
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Genre: | Revue Show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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I Hear Voices | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1958 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | McPherson 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0929701042 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #100290 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Inside the mind of a man who is at the same time confined and liberated by his madness | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Irresistable | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #102972 | |||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 1/3 | |||||
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Letters To A Lady | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1951 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43262 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | with Gertrude Macauley | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Little Hopping Robin | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1973 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #69 | |||
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Genre: | Entertainment | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Intended for class work as much as public performance | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Madly In Love | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1968 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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One Hand Clapping | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1964 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71 | |||
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Genre: | Revue Show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music by Richard Peaselee | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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She's Dead | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Ableman, Paul, Tests, 1966 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #72 | |||
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Genre: | Abstract / Surrealist Playlet | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2 characters | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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Tests | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1966 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0416289206 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73 | |||
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Genre: | 14 playlets One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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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Visitors, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1974 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
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Windsor All-Sorts | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1977 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #75 | |||
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