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LEONARD ANGEL (1945 - ) |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Plays by Leonard Angel |
After Antietam | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1975 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Canada Playwrights Co-op | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98631 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The American Civil War. The general sends his aide to find him a woman for the night. The Southern woman he finds stirs his conscience as to whether it is always right to obey orders | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Eleanor Marx | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bathhouse Theatre, Seattle, Washington | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #840 | |||
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Genre: | 100 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The youngest daughter of Karl Marx and scandal, intrigue, politics and tragedy in Victorian London | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Forthcoming Wedding | ||
| 1st Produced: | Factory Theatre Lab | 1972 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in West Coast Plays, Finglow Plays, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #841 | |||
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Genre: | light, black comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | A young woman is about to be married; her father is jealous of her fiance and threatens him. In retaliation, Rose turns a gun on Papa .a misunderstanding, nothing more, and they exit to the movies | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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God Is Alive and Well and Living in Riverdell Psychiatric Hospital | ||
| 1st Produced: | Full Circle Co-op, Fringe Festival, Vancouver, BC. | 1995 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #842 | |||
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Genre: | Comedic Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Josh, a Jewish youth of 22, has been admitted to Riverdell Psychiatric Hospital which specialises in the treatment of people who think they're God. Josh wants everyone to worship him (Him). Josh's mother is distressed. The doctor, Perry, wants to put him on a regime of pills. The young female Anglican pastor, Aileen, wants to help him retain his "God sense" and gets permission to remove Josh from his medications. Complications ensue, leading all to wonder who is really playing - or is it being? - God. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Helen and Menelaus | ||
| 1st Produced: | Star Turns Co-op, Waterfront Theatre, Vancouver, B.C. | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #843 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Menelaus has brought Helen, his wife, back after the Greeks won the battle of Troy. But he needs to know if she was abducted by Paris to Troy, as she claims, or if she loved Paris, and went voluntarily, betraying her husband. Throughout the interrogation, he hears the private thunder of war. She hears the private calling of romance. Only after the heaviest armour of all is removed can either of them communicate with, and discover, the other | |||||
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Incident After Antietam | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Play Centre, Vancouver | 1976 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #844 | |||
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Genre: | Drama 50 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | When a Confederate soldier meets a southern woman, the idealism of the Confederacy clashes with the brutal realities of war. "The play's quiet resolution offers an experience that anyone interested in fine, communicative theatre should try not to miss." - Max Wyman, Vancouver Sun | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Isadora And GB | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Play Centre, Vancouver | 1977 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #845 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | G.B. Shaw visits Isadora Duncan's studio to see her dance in the nude. She tries to seduce him, but he warns "what if the child were to have my beauty and your brains?" "One of the best Canadian plays ever written. . .ingeniously constructed, rich in virtuosity. . .glows like a glass of vintage burgundy." - Max Wyman, Vancouver Sun | |||||
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King Who Courted Plague, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1970 | ||||
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 | #98632 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Moliere's Misanthrope: a gender inverted Hollywood-North adaptation | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gastown Co-op, Gastown Theatre, Vancouver, B.C. | 1995 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #846 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | An updated gender inverted version of Moliere's "Misanthrope". "Astonishingly clever. . .constantly delights by sheer brilliance" -Malcolm Page, Plays International | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Star Turns | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Play Centre, Vancouver | 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 | #72780 | |||
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Genre: | 90 min trilogy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | In Act 1, Menelaus takes Helen back to Sparta after winning the battle of Troy but what kind of marriage can they now have? In Act 2, Isadora Duncan meets George Bernard Shaw and wants to have a child by him. In Act 3, two superstars of the future deliberate on whether or not to have a head transplant in order to increase their fame. Act 2 was produced New Play Centre, Vancouver, 1977. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Unveiling, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Play Centre, Vancouver | 1982 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #847 | |||
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Genre: | Drama 90 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 1g | |||||
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Synopsis: | A hard hitting family drama about a contemporary Jewish family gathering, ten months after her death, at the grave of the mother to unveil her stone. Who will take care of the schizophrenic youngest son now that mother is gone is the crisis to be resolved. | |||||
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