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Leonard Angel

LEONARD ANGEL

  (1945 - )
Nationality:    Canadian
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Leonard Angel's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Leonard Angel's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         After Antietam         Eleanor Marx         Forthcoming Wedding         God Is Alive And Well And Living In Riverdell Psychiatric Hospital         Helen And Menelaus         Incident After Antietam         Isadora And GB         King Who Courted Plague, The         Moliere's Misanthrope: A Gender Inverted Hollywood-North Adaptation         Star Turns         Unveiling, The

After Antietam

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

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1975

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Canada Playwrights Co-op   -

Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Eleanor Marx

Synopsis:
the youngest daughter of Karl Marx and scandal, intrigue, politics and tragedy in Victorian London

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Bathhouse Theatre, Seattle, Washington    1984

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
100 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  doubling

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Forthcoming Wedding

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

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Factory Theatre Lab    1972

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in West Coast Plays, Finglow Plays,    -

Music:
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Genre:
light, black comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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God Is Alive And Well And Living In Riverdell Psychiatric Hospital

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.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Full Circle Co-op, Fringe Festival, Vancouver, BC.    1995

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1999   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedic Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Helen And Menelaus

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

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Star Turns Co-op, Waterfront Theatre, Vancouver, B.C.    1986

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1999   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Incident After Antietam

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

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Play Centre, Vancouver    1976

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1978   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama 50 min One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Isadora And GB

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

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Play Centre, Vancouver    1977

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1978   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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King Who Courted Plague, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1970

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Moliere's Misanthrope: A Gender Inverted Hollywood-North Adaptation

Synopsis:
an updated gender inverted version of Moliere's "Misanthrope". "astonishingly clever. . .constantly delights by sheer brilliance" -Malcolm Page, Plays International

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Gastown Co-op, Gastown Theatre, Vancouver, B.C.    1995

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1995   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Star Turns

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.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Play Centre, Vancouver    1977

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
90 min trilogy One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Unveiling, The

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.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Play Centre, Vancouver    1982

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama 90 min One act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  1g

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