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Ted Allan

TED ALLAN  (1916 - )

 Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    Butler Ruston Bell Talent Associates Inc  

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

         Chu Chem, A Zen Buddhist-Hebrew Musical         Double Image         I've Seen You Cut Lemons         Legend Of Pepito         Lies My Father Told Me         Love Streams, And the Third Day Comes         Money Makers, The         Oh What A Lovely War         Secret Of the World, The         Willie the Squowse

Chu Chem, A Zen Buddhist-Hebrew Musical

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music And lyrics by Mitch Leigh, Jack Haines And Jack Wohl

1st Produced:
Philadelphia    1966

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Genre:
Musical

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Double Image

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.

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written with Roger MacDougall, from story by Roy Vickers

1st Produced:
London    1956

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1957   -

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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I've Seen You Cut Lemons

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Revised As My Sister's Keeper. Lennoxville, Quebec, 1974

1st Produced:
London    1969

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1st Published:
University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1976   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Legend Of Pepito

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from story by B Traven

1st Produced:
London    1955

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adaptation

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Lies My Father Told Me

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Three generations of a Canadian Jewish family

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1st Produced:
New York    1986

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1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto, 1984   -

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Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Love Streams, And the Third Day Comes

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1st Produced:
Los Angeles    1984

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Money Makers, The

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aka the Ghost Writers London 1955)

1st Produced:
Toronto    1954

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Oh What A Lovely War

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 theatre 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.

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written with the theatre Workshop

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Methuen, London, 1965   -

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Genre:
Play with songs Play with Music

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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Secret Of the World, The

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.

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1st Produced:
London    1962

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Male:  7            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Willie the Squowse

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Days before Ysabel's arranged marriage she meets a sultry Spanish drifter

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