TED ALLAN (1916 - )
| Nationality: | Canadian |
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Plays by Ted Allan
Chu Chem, A Zen Buddhist-Hebrew Musical |
| 1st Produced: | Philadelphia | 1966 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | music and lyrics by Mitch Leigh, Jack Haines and Jack Wohl | |||||
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Double Image |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1956 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1957 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
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| Notes: | written with Roger MacDougall, from story by Roy Vickers | |||||
| Synopsis: | Julian Fanshaw is struggling to survive on the allowance left to him by his father. His uncle who controls the money refuses to let him have more. Julian's marriage to Elsa is floundering. Then to cap it all a look alike - David - has turned up and has run up debts by pretending to be Julian. David meets and flatters and tries to seduce Elsa. David seems to be everything that Julian is not - charming and witty. But things take a turn when David shoots the uncle. The policeman investigating starts to wonder why he has never seen Julian and David together. | |||||
I've Seen You Cut Lemons |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1969 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1976 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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| Notes: | Revised as My Sister's Keeper. Lennoxville, Quebec, 1974 | |||||
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Legend Of Pepito |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1955 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | from story by B Traven | |||||
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Lies My Father Told Me |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1986 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights, Toronto, 1984 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | Three generations of a Canadian Jewish family | |||||
Love Streams, And The Third Day Comes |
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | 1984 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Money Makers, The |
| 1st Produced: | Toronto | 1954 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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| Notes: | aka The Ghost Writers London 1955) | |||||
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Oh What A Lovely War |
| 1st Produced: | 1963 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Methuen, London >>> , 1965 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Play with songs | Play with Music | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | large cast | |||||
| Notes: | written with the Theatre Workshop | |||||
| Synopsis: | Oh What a Lovely War is a theatrical chronicle of the First World War, told through the songs and documents of the period. First performed by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London in 1963, it received the acclaim of London audiences and critics. It won the Grand Prix of the Théâtre des Nations festival in Paris that year and has gone on to become a classic of the modern theatre. In 1969 a film version was made which extended the play's popular success. The play is now on the standard reading list of schools and universities around the UK and was revived by the Royal National Theatre in 1998. | |||||
Secret Of The World, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1962 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | Set at the time that Khrushchev revealed some of what Stalin had done when he was in charge of the USSR. Chris Alexander (the name was cahnged to Sam Alexander after the play's first run), a moderate union leader renounces the Communist Party and fails to get re-elected This leads to a steady decline he looses friends and verges on insanity. He declines to take advantage of a huge settlement after an accident and pins his hopes on making a fortune with an idiotic invention. | |||||
Willie the Squowse |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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| Synopsis: | Days before Ysabel's arranged marriage she meets a sultry Spanish drifter | |||||