PAUL ABLEMAN (1927 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Paul Ableman
And Hum Our Sword |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1973 | ||
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Black General, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1969 | ||
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| 1st Published: | 1968 | |||
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Notes: Original Playwright - Shakespeare (Othello) | ||||
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Dialogues |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1965 | ||
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Emily And Heathcliff |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1967 | ||
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| 1st Published: | 1966 | |||
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Even His Enemy |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1951 | ||
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Notes: aka Letters To a Lady; Written in collaboration with Gertrude Macauley | ||||
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Green Julia |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1965 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Grove Press, New York | 1966 | ||
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| Genre: | Comedy Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
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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 | ||||
Hank's Night |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1968 | ||
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| 1st Published: | 1968 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: in Blue Comedy | ||||
Synopsis: Problems abound when two happily married couples vainly attempt to mount an orgy | ||||
Help! |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1963 | ||
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| Genre: | Revue | Show | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Letters To A Lady |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1951 | ||
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Notes: with Gertrude Macauley | ||||
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Little Hopping Robin |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1973 | ||
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| Genre: | Entertainment | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Intended for class work as much as public performance | ||||
Madly In Love |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1968 | ||
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| 1st Published: | 1968 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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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 | ||||
One Hand Clapping |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh | 1964 | ||
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| Genre: | Revue | Show | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: music by Richard Peaselee | ||||
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She's Dead |
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| 1st Published: | Ableman, Paul, Tests | 1966 | ||
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| Genre: | Abstract / Surrealist Playlet | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 2 characters | |||
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Tests |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1966 | ||
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| 1st Published: | 1966 | |||
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| Genre: | 14 playlets | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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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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Visitors, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1974 | ||
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Windsor All-Sorts |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1977 | ||
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