MICHAEL ABBENSETTS (1938 - )
| Nationality: | British - born Guyana |
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Plays by Michael Abbensetts
Alterations |
| 1st Produced: | 1978 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Michael Abbensetts Four Plays, Oberon, London, 2001 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | revised London, 1985 | |||||
| Synopsis: | About a West Indian tailor Walker Holt, who strives at all costs to be successful and in so doing sacrifices his family and his values. | |||||
El Dorado |
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Michael Abbensetts Four Plays, Oberon, London, 2001 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | talks about class, colour and property among mixed and monied races in Guyana in a Chekhovian family drama. | |||||
In The Mood |
| 1st Produced: | Hamstead Theatre, London | 1981 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Michael Abbensetts Four Plays, Oberon, London, 2001 | 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 | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Orrin and T.D. fought for the British in the second World War. Every year since then they have re-met on Armistice Day. This year something different occurs. An uninvited guest turns up. | |||||
Lion, The |
| 1st Produced: | Cochrane, London | 1993 | ||||
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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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Outlaw |
| 1st Produced: | Leicester | 1983 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Royston's Day |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Heinemann, London, 1988 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | in Living Together, Heinemann | |||||
| Synopsis: | Prime Minister Thatcher forces woman into prostitution. | |||||
Samba |
| 1st Produced: | 1980 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London, 1980 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Comedy with music | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 6 mus | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Once AIf redo Lamas was universally acclaimed as The Samba King", he led the famous Latin American dance band - The Gauchos. Rock n Roll changed things, however. Now, twenty years later, Alt redo is reduced to running a mini-cab business. He is determined to make a comeback. | |||||
Street Party, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Heinemann, London, 1988 | 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | in Living Together, Heinemann | |||||
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Sweet Talk |
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London, 1974 | 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: | Domestic Drama | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | About a young West Indian couple living in London and the pressures from inside and outside their marriage | |||||