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Paul Ableman

PAUL ABLEMAN   (1927 - 2006)

Nationality:   English    Email:   n/a   Website:   Click here to visit

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

PAUL ABLEMAN

And Hum Our Sword

1st Produced:

London

1973

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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PAUL ABLEMAN

Black General, The

1st Produced:

London

1969

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1968

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Shakespeare (Othello)

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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PAUL ABLEMAN

Blue Comedy

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Methuen

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0416129205

Music:

-

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Genre:

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Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Blue Comedy

n/a

Further Reference:

-


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PAUL ABLEMAN

Dialogues

1st Produced:

London

1965

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

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Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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PAUL ABLEMAN

Emily And Heathcliff

1st Produced:

London

1967

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1966

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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PAUL ABLEMAN

Even His Enemy

1st Produced:

London

1951

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#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

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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PAUL ABLEMAN

Green Julia

1st Produced:

Edinburgh

1965

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Grove Press, New York, 1966

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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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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PAUL ABLEMAN

Hank's Night

1st Produced:

London

1968

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1968

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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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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PAUL ABLEMAN

Help!

1st Produced:

- - -

1963

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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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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PAUL ABLEMAN

I Hear Voices

1st Produced:

- - -

1958

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

McPherson 1990

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0929701042

Music:

-

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#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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PAUL ABLEMAN

Irresistable

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#102972

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

n/a

Further Reference:

National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 1/3


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PAUL ABLEMAN

Letters To A Lady

1st Produced:

London

1951

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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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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PAUL ABLEMAN

Little Hopping Robin

1st Produced:

London

1973

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#69

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Genre:

Entertainment

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Intended for class work as much as public performance

Further Reference:

-


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PAUL ABLEMAN

Madly In Love

1st Produced:

London

1968

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1968

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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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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PAUL ABLEMAN

One Hand Clapping

1st Produced:

Edinburgh

1964

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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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

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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PAUL ABLEMAN

She's Dead

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Ableman, Paul, Tests, 1966

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Abstract / Surrealist Playlet

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

2 characters

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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PAUL ABLEMAN

Tests

1st Produced:

- - -

1966

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 1966

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0416289206

Music:

-

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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;

Tests

Further Reference:

-


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PAUL ABLEMAN

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:

-

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#74

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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PAUL ABLEMAN

Windsor All-Sorts

1st Produced:

London

1977

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#75

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Genre:

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Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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