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Abe Polsky

ABE POLSKY

  (1935 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency  

Born in Philadelphia, PA on August 13, 1935. Graduated from U.C.L.A., majoring in Theatre Arts. He is experienced in writing plays, screenplays and teleplays. Wrote and co-produced feature film, the Baby, original screenplay, the Firebrand.

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

         Custer's Last Band         Devour the Snow         Harry Houdini, I Love You         Rabbi and the Golem, The         Umglick Lives in Brooklyn, An         White Crow, The

Custer's Last Band

Synopsis:
A group of army musicians on the eve of the Battle of the Little Big Horn

Notes:
South Coast Rep Playwriting Award. rewritten As the Bandmaster (Northern Kentucky University, 2003)

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One act

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Devour the Snow

Synopsis:
the action takes place at Sutter's Fort, in northern California, in 1847. Lewis Keseberg, a German emigrant and survivor of the tragic Donner Party expedition, has brought a suit for slander against several other survivors, who have accused him of being a grave robber and murderer. As the trial testimony proceeds the awful facts of the expedition's demise are revealed-the heavy snows which trapped them in the mountains; the starvation and death of women and children; the desperation which drove the few survivors to cannibalize the corpses of the dead. Keseberg does not deny the horror of what occurred, or the madness which made him a party to it, but he cannot live with the accusation that he deliberately killed for food and that he robbed the graves of the deceased. Ultimately he wins his case, but not before it is made eloquently clear that all involved will be burdened until the end of their lives with the terrible, numbing anguish of what they went through

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first professional production was At ANTA theater West in Hollywood

1st Produced:
Cypress College Theatre, Cypress, California, Usa     1967

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Courtroom Drama Play/Drama

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Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  1g

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Harry Houdini, I Love You

Synopsis:
Harry Houdini sets out to debunk a "psychic" - but she just wants to seduce him

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Rabbi and the Golem, The

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Horseshoe Theater, Hollywood, Cal    

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Umglick Lives in Brooklyn, An

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Las Palmas Theater In Hollywood     1960

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White Crow, The

Synopsis:
re written as Houdini in Love

Notes:
re written As Houdini in Love

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Florida    

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