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Abe Rybeck

ABE RYBECK

  
Nationality:    USA
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Abe Rybeck's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Dirt         Pure PolyEsther         Surviving the Nian

Dirt

Synopsis:
Michael Popper, a streetwise rent boy crack head is taken in and straightened out by the head of the Mayor's Outreach to the Gay Community, Michael McCall. A fund raiser for an AIDS charity, Michael Govern, thinks he will be a better partner for Michael McCall. Meanwhile fifteen year old Michael Lawson is beaten up and raped by a homophobic police officer

Notes:
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1st Produced:
BCA Theatre, Boston    1997

Organisations:
the Theatre Offensive

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  1 actor plays six parts

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Pure PolyEsther

Synopsis:
A gay musical version of the "Book of Esther".

Notes:
Music by John Thomas; music by Abe Rybeck; lyrics by Abe Rybeck; book by Abe Rybeck

1st Produced:

Organisations:
the Theatre Offensive

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical. - - Gay/Lesbian, musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  extras

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Surviving the Nian

Synopsis:
After five years in the U S Kaylin returns to Hong Kong for a holiday. She brings her lover Afro-American Asha. Her family do not know that they are lesbian lovers

Notes:
Music And lyrics by Melissa Li; book by Melissa Li; book by Abe Rybeck

1st Produced:
Boston Center For the Arts    14 Apr 2007

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical. - - Gay/Lesbian Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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