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Michael Almaz

MICHAEL ALMAZ  

Nationality:    British/Israeli
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Literary Agent:    agent Cafe theatre Productions

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        After Intimacy         Anarchist         Auto Auto         Chicago Sunday School For Anarchists, The         Cow In the Desert         Cut         Dialogue With A Dying Man         Diary Of A Rat         Dreyfus On Devil's Island         Duplex         Eve         Every Number Wins         F & H Play, The         Friend, The         I Was Mata Hari         In the King's Bosom         Intimacy         Judgment         Letters From K         Masoch         Monsieur Artaud         Moshe Dayan ExtravagANZa         Paper Tiger         Port-Said Performance, The         Rasputin Show, The         Sailor         Seducer, The         Smash Z!         Story         Underground Man         Z Protocols, The



After Intimacy

Synopsis:
evokes the spirit of wartime Paris through songs, parodies, anecdotes and glimpses of social history.

Notes:
inspired by Jean-Paul Sartre

1st Produced:
Pentameters, London    2005

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Play/Drama

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Anarchist

Synopsis:
about Bakunin, Marx and Nechaev, that is anarchy. Communism (as seen by Marx) and Terrorism

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Genre:
Play/Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

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Auto Auto

Synopsis:
the life and death of the motor car

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1972

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Published in German translation,    -

Music:
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Chicago Sunday School For Anarchists, The

Synopsis:
the media look at revolution

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1973

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Play/Drama

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Cow In the Desert

Synopsis:
Trafficking of young women from Russia to the Middle east

Notes:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

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Cut

Synopsis:
Posterkrantz, film director, does his (final) nut.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1979

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Dialogue With A Dying Man

Synopsis:
a priest goes to a man dying in the hospital of a Carmelite nunnery

Notes:
Based on writings of the Marquis de Sade

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Diary Of A Rat

Synopsis:
How to survive and eat well in Paris under the nazi occupation

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
artaud Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Play/Drama

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Dreyfus On Devil's Island

Synopsis:
revolving around the notorious 'affaire'

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1973

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Genre:
Mono Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Duplex

Synopsis:
Young revolutionaries in Tsarist Russia, their hopes, ideals and death

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1969

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Published in German translation,    -

Music:
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Play/Drama

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Eve

Synopsis:
Freely based on Sartre

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1980

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Every Number Wins

Synopsis:
One man's road from pre-birth to death.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Hovenden Players    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Best Short plays of 1968, Chilton Book Co, New York,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Musical

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F & H Play, The

Synopsis:
F, a famous psychoanalyst, is required to save H, a well known dictator of the 30's.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1978

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Friend, The

Synopsis:
Marie Dorval, actress, and George Sand, writer, are the central characters in the play about life vs art.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1976

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Play/Drama

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I Was Mata Hari

Synopsis:
On the classic theme of love vs duty

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1979

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

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In the King's Bosom

In the King's Bosom
the action of the play takes place in a bedroom in the King's Palace in Jerusalem, three thousand years ago

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
New Plays Quarterly 69, Evans Bros Ltd, 1965   -

Music:
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Genre:
one act biblical comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Intimacy

Synopsis:
the turbulent love life of two Parisian women on the eve of World War II. a penetrating, very funny, study of love and betrayal.

Notes:
freely Adapted from JeaN PaUL SaRTRe'S short story. 'the longest running play ever on the London Fringe (over 1400 performances

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Cafe Theatre Scripts    -

Music:
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Genre:
One act

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Judgment

Synopsis:
a young man is torn between his lust for his fiancee and his fear of his father. an expressionistic study in menace and horror.

Notes:
based on A story And other writings by FRanz KaFKa

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Cafe Theatre Scripts    -

Music:
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Genre:
One act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Letters From K

Synopsis:
Franz Kafka breaks his engagement to Felice Baeur

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1974

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Masoch

Synopsis:
Based on the memoirs of 'Wanda' Sacher Masoch

Notes:
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-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Monsieur Artaud

Synopsis:
the life and ideas of the founder of the theatre of Cruelty

Notes:
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Organisations:
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Moshe Dayan ExtravagANZa

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Paper Tiger

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1975

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Sketch

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Port-Said Performance, The

Synopsis:
egypt, World War II. the four leaders of the free world haggle over the spoils of forthcoming victory. To divert them, Churchill, master of the Middle east at the time, invites them to the Port Said Performance. a bawdy, side-splitting play.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1972

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Cafe Theatre Scripts    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Rasputin Show, The

Synopsis:
an entirely new version of the previously performed 'historical extravaganza'. entertaining theatre and a hilarious exposure of political corruption - then, and by implication, now as well.

Notes:
music by David Lascelles

1st Produced:
Brighton    1968

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Cafe Theatre Scripts    -

Music:
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Genre:
Political extravagANZa

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  12 characters

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Sailor

Synopsis:
the young anarchist emma Goldman comes up against stiff opposition from both bourgeois and fellow revolutionaries in 19th century New York.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1974

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Seducer, The

Synopsis:
Freely based on Kirkegaard.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1981

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Smash Z!

Synopsis:
the Jews plot to take over the world, using their great resources, control of the press, science, medicine, music and art. a hilarious rendition of one of Hitler's favourite readings, the PROTOCOLS OF the eLDeRS OF ZION. the original Protocols are a best seller in many countries including Japan and the Moslem world.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Unproduced    1979

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Cafe Theatre Scripts    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Large scale event

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  13 people minimum

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Story

Synopsis:
a play for actress and tape recorder

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1974

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Underground Man

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Based on An episode in "Notes From the Underground" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Z Protocols, The

Synopsis:
extravaganza, based on "the Protocols of the elders of Zion"

Notes:
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1st Produced:
unproduced    1975

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

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Play/Drama

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