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Brian Abbott

BRIAN ABBOTT

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Thomas and Bender Associates Ltd  

Brian Abbott has followed twin careers as playwright and actor for many years. As part of Parrabbola, he has specialised in commissioned writing for largescale, site-specific community plays and musicals based on local, national and international history and events. His most recent, Half a Cod a Day, recently finished its tour at the Brighton Fringe Festival, where it was designated a 'must-see show'. Others have been staged in Gdansk and Ostrava (with Brian as dramaturg), and (as writer and lyricist) at The Philharmonic Hall Liverpool, Bromley, the Wirral, New Theatre Royal Portsmouth, Tilbury Fort, Rotherham, the Millennium Dome and South Holderness. o Prior to the Parrabbola projects, Brian's mainstream plays were produced at The Lyric Hammersmith, Haymarket Theatre Leicester, Bridge Lane Theatre London - and The Gospel According to Judas previously at The Questors. He was also chief writer and compiler on 200 programmes for the original Fifteen to One on Channel 4.

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

         Eating the Peach         Gospel According to Judas, The         Half A Cod A Day         Land Of Liberty         Milkwood Blues         No Fairy Tale         Powerplay         Walking On the Sun

Eating the Peach

Synopsis:
When he was sixteen Michael Kelly was sent to Italy to study singing. In 1786 he was in Vienna. Mozart had just written "the Marriage of Figaro" and there were two parts in it just right for Kelly

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1st Produced:
Swaledale Festival     2006

Organisations:
Parrabbola

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Genre:
Historical Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Gospel According to Judas, The

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Play/Drama 95 min

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Half A Cod A Day

Synopsis:
Researched and set in Hastings by playwright Brian Abbott, Half A Cod A Day draws attention to the issue of sustainable fishing, how government and global policies affect the small fishermen as well as the larger trawlers, and the legal entanglements that can twist, confuse and restrain more than any fishing net. Told as part allegory, incorporating specially written shanties, a barrage of facts as well as a human interest story, this humorous play explores issues around fishing and sustainability, specifically within a European setting.

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1st Produced:
Hastinfs: Stade Hall     23 Apr 2014

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Parrabbola

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Land Of Liberty

Synopsis:
the Chartists

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Genre:
Musical

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Milkwood Blues

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Musical play Musical

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No Fairy Tale

Synopsis:
Brian Abbott on No Fairy Tale: "In 1988, I came across an article in The Guardian, about the burning of an author's book on the streets of Bradford and other towns; later death threats were issued - a fatwa. This was Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. I was deeply incensed that this could be happening on the streets of Britain. (Indeed, an early alternate title for No Fairy Tale was Fatwas and Witchawatchas.) The same article also referred to various authors whose books had been burned on their own doorsteps, banned or worse: Maeve Binchy, Edna O'Brien, Brendan Behan, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde - and The Tailor (but without naming the writer of the book). It mentioned a visit by three priests. I couldn't find the book anywhere. Maggie, my wife, being Irish knew of The Tailor and Ansty, and ordered me a copy from Kenny's bookshop in Galway. It was completely innocuous. Once I had researched more of what had happened to The Tailor and Ansty, I had no choice in the matter. I had to write the play. But I didn't so much write the playas get possessed by it. My great thanks go to Francis Lloyd, who championed No Fairy Tale and, previously, The Gospel According 10 Judas."

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Genre:
comedy 95 min

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Male:  8            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Powerplay

Synopsis:
A community play for Thurrock.

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Thameside Theatre, Orsett Road, Grays, Essex RM17 5DX     16 Aug 2005

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Walking On the Sun

Walking On the Sun
Industrial and social changes in the North of england over several generations

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Music And lyrics by Alexander Bermange; book by Brian Abbott

1st Produced:
Theatre In The Park, Rotherham     2000

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Songs from the musical: GeMa Duo Phon Records (01974)

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Genre:
Musical

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