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Henry Gabriel

HENRY GABRIEL

  (1932 - )
Nationality:    Scottish
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Henry Gabriel is a Playwright, Novelist and essayist, and native of Glasgow. He has had several productions of his plays at the Edinburgh Festival, the Pitlochry Festival Theatre, the Glasgow Citizens, and in London. His first novel 'the Inner Case' was published in 1989 and was acclaimed as the 'Book of the Week' in the Scottish Sunday Post, Scotland's largest Sunday newspaper. His book of Philosophical essays, 'Forward To Methuselah' and a Detective Satire, 'masks Of eros' were published respectively in 1996 and 1997. In 2004-5, 'the Historical Mission Of evil was Published, a Psychoanalytic Perspective on the Historical Origin Of evil. He presented a paper from this book at the 5th annual Conference on evil and Human Wickedness in Prague, 2004. He has just completed a full length play, 'after Day Breaks,' in which the characters are Sigmund Freud; anna Freud; albert einstein; Immanuel Velikovsky and arnold Zweig. His psychoanalyst was Karl abenheimer who studied under both Freud and Jung. R. J. Laing was a student of Karl abenheimer.

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

         60th Visitor         After Day Breaks         Cameo Dialogues         Clear Vision         Compensation         Here And Now         In the Light Of Day         Nightmare         On Stage - Off Stage         Points Of View         Promises         Secret Experiments         Such A Delicate Question         Tamburlaine Was Right Great         Under Fire         We're All Implicated         What Would People Think         When the Dead Touches the Living
60th Visitor

Synopsis:
Dreams and endogenous Depression: is 60 a magical number?

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adapted versions for Television, And Radio.

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Comedy

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After Day Breaks

Synopsis:
Where the world of the mind meets the world of the Universe.the entire play is enacted in Freud's house in Vienna,1936, where the Nazis are already making serious inroads into the life of the city. During the course of the play, Nazi bands intermittently lay siege to Freud's home and cause several serious incidents. the 5 characters are famous in their own right. Sigmund Freud who is just3 months into his 81st year. anna Freud, his daughter: albert einstein: Immanuel Velikovsky and Arnold Zweig. their animate discussions which initially range between Psychoanalysis and Physics are controversial and humorous and soon the issue of religion intrudes as a third factor and is hotly debated. However, Psychoanalysis asserts itself on a deeply personal level and Freud becomes the object of hostile accusations by Velikovsky. Subsequently this is vigorously countered by exalted praise, not least by Velikovsky himself. another counter attack occurs when Velikovsky himself is then subjected to acrimonious ridicule and mockery on his theories of Cosmic catastrophes. the proverbial ending ensures that the fundamental issues involved are sure to continue unresolved.

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Historical

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Cameo Dialogues

Synopsis:
17 Dialogues In all, With the Following Titles: Lovers In the Wild; the Wonder Of Creation; an absolute Scream; Real Life; Preferences For the Living; Compassionate Vision; Sacrifices To Life; Light Of the Universe; a Dying Smile; Sense and Senses; achievement Of a Lifetime; Just Like a Man; the Trembling Of a Leaf; Break-In; Mystery Of Mysteries; the Sun and Its Shadows; a Fortune Of Secrets.

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these 17 Dialogues Are on various topics; more perhaps A kaleidoscope of the paltry, the serious, the whimsical And the Absurd obligations imposed by life And death in its endless circulaation And Anarchic control of human destiny. they Are useful for Drama exams, Auditions, j Festivals, Classrooms etc.

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17 dialogues

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Clear Vision

Synopsis:
a champion boxer brings his arrogance and aggression home. Brotherly rivalry

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Pitlochry Festival 1978

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Edinburgh Festival     1976

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Genre:
Tragicomedy Tragedy

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Compensation

Synopsis:
the return of a stolen painting sets in motion the pregnancy of the painteršs wife.

Notes:
a Play For Television

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Comedy

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Here And Now

Synopsis:
an electrical thunderstorm seems to recover a 25year old memory of an infidelity or perhaps its illusion.

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adapted versions for Television And Radio

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In the Light Of Day

Synopsis:
Portrait of a poignant love revelation.

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Comedy

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Nightmare

Synopsis:
Whose Nightmare is the Worst? the Motheršs or the Sonšs.

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Genre:
Comedie Larmoyante Comedy

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On Stage - Off Stage

Synopsis:
Exaggerated realism in the modern theatre

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Points Of View

Synopsis:
Problems in perception

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Promises

Synopsis:
a conflict of highly diverse secrets, mutually confessed, leaves no room for either bargaining or blackmail.

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-     24 May 1905

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Genre:
Intellectual Two-Hander

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Secret Experiments

Synopsis:
What dreadful secret has Sarah discovered at the General Hospital?

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Genre:
Comedy of Ideas

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Such A Delicate Question

Synopsis:
estranged Identity

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York And Albany Theatre, Camden Town, London     1980

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Genre:
existential Satire

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Tamburlaine Was Right Great

Synopsis:
Blood and Thunder without belching smoke and bolts of lightning.

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two of the Actors Are hecklers in the Audience.

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Genre:
Interactive Satire

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Under Fire

Synopsis:
academic Terror when a Professor of Sociology is held up by an American Gunman.

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Genre:
Black Comedy Comedy

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We're All Implicated

Synopsis:
When Molly invites a convict correspondent to her motheršs home, little does she know that it will end up in his murder, and involve both her mother and younger brother.

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1st Produced:
Edinburgh Festival     1976

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Genre:
Tragicomedy Tragedy

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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What Would People Think

Synopsis:
Problems in identity

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When the Dead Touches the Living

Synopsis:
When a single suicide sparks off a series of mysterious murders, alan, the new Life Insurance agent is put off using the Fear of Death to sell Life Insurance Policies, the best selling point in the world with which his training manager never ceases to try and indoctrinate him.

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adapted versions for Television And Radio

1st Produced:
Glasgow     1983

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Genre:
Black Comedy Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  baby

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