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Dannie Abse

DANNIE ABSE  (1923 - )

 Nationality:    Welsh
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Literary Agent:    United Agents  

Born in Cardiff, Glamorgan, 22 September 1923. educated at Marlborough Road elementary School, Cardiff; St. Illtyd's College, Cardiff; University of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff; King's College, London; Westminster Hospital, London; qualified as physician 1950, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Served in the Royal air Force, 1951-54: squadron leader. Married Joan Mercer in 1951; one son and two daughters. Specialist in charge of the chest clinic, Central London Medical establishment 1954-89. Senior Fellow in Humanities, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1973-74. editor, Poetry and Poverty magazine, London, 1949-54. President, Poetry Society 1978-92. Recipient: Foyle award, 1960; Welsh Arts Council award, 1971, 1987, for play, 1980; Cholmondeley award, 1985. D. Litt.: University of Wales, Cardiff, 1989. Fellow, Royal Society of Literature, 1983. agent: Land Shell associates, 43 Doughty Street, London WClN 2LF

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         Dogs Of Pavlov, The         Dogs Of War, The         Eccentric, The         Fire In Heaven         Funland         Gone         Hands Around the Wall         House Of Cowards         Joker the         Pythagoras

Dogs Of Pavlov, The

Synopsis:
Suggested by Stanley Milgram's 'Obedience to authority' experiment at Yale University

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1st Produced:
Questors Theatre, London    1969

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1st Published:
Valentine Mitchell, London, 1973   -

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Dogs Of War, The

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Eccentric, The

Synopsis:
Jewish comedy about an eccentric tobacconist resisting a take over bid by a chain store

Notes:
should be paired with the Joker under the heading Two Jewish Comedies. Radio version called the Courting Of essie Glass

1st Produced:
Mountview Theatre, London    1961

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1st Published:
Evans Bros, London, 1956   -

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Genre:
Jewish Comedy One act

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Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Fire In Heaven

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Notes:
aka Is the House Shut And In the Cage

1st Produced:
London    1948

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1st Published:
Hutchinson, London, 1948   -

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Funland

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1st Produced:
London    1975

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Genre:
Poem

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Gone

Synopsis:
about infidelity and sexual possession

Notes:
aka Gone In January (ensemble theatre Co At edinburgh Festival 1977)

1st Produced:
London    1962

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1st Published:
Scorpion Press, 1967   -

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Hands Around the Wall

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1st Produced:
London    1950

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House Of Cowards

Synopsis:
Group await the coming of a messianic figure who will appear and save them all from the lies they are living.

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1st Produced:
Questors Theatre, London    1960

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1st Published:
in "Plays of the Year 23" elek, London, 1962   -

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Genre:
TragiComedy Tragedy

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Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Joker the

Synopsis:
Jewish comedy about a bachelor given to playing obsessional jokes even on a possible bride

Notes:
should be paired with the eccentric under the heading Two Jewish Comedies. Radio version called the Courting Of essie Glass

1st Produced:
Questors Theatre, London    1962

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1st Published:
in Miscellany One, Poetry Wales Press, 1981   -

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Genre:
Jewish Comedy One act

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Pythagoras

Synopsis:
picture of a modern mental hospital and a transmigrated soul from the world of show business where he was formerly know as the Magician

Notes:
aka Phthagoras Smith

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1st Published:
Hutchinson, London, 1979   978-0091391348

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  4            Other:  -

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