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DOUGLAS ABEL |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Playwrights Guild of Canada |
Douglas Abel is a playwright, director, stage and television actor, theatre historian, and drama teacher. He studied acting in England and obtained his Ph.D. in Nineteenth Century Theatre History from the University of Toronto. He taught for ten years at the University of Waterloo and Ryerson Theatre School, before moving west to Fort McMurray, Alberta, where he is an instructor and drama program head in the Visual and Performing Arts department at Keyano College. He has toured his one-man show about Christopher Marlowe, To Ride in Triumph, in Canada and the U.S., and appeared as Doctor Norman Bethune in Ken Mitchell's Gone the Burning Sun in numerous theatres in Alberta. His chief leisure-time activity is trying to find some leisure time.
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Plays by Douglas Abel
Cattle Pen, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Guild of Canada, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #52 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Tragicomedy Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An ironic view, from the front lines and the home front, of the Trojan War, the workings of fate, and the art of myth-making | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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To Ride In Triumph | ||
| 1st Produced: | University of Waterloo Arts Centre, Canada | 1988 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Guild of Canada, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #53 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Elizabethan playwright, poet, and spy, Christopher Marlowe tells a tale of triumph and tragedy as he anticipates his assassination | |||||
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