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Abell, Kjeld (1901–61), Danish dramatist and artist, who worked as a stage designer in Paris and with Balanchine at the Alhambra Theatre, London, in 1931. His first play, Melodien, der blev væk, was produced in Copenhagen in 1935 and in London a year later as The Melody That Got Lost. None of his other plays has been produced in English, though three have been published in translation: Anna Sophie Hedvig (1939), The Queen on Tour (1943), a protest against the loss of freedom during the German occupation of Denmark, and Days on a Cloud (1947). Abell's work represents a sustained attempt to bring an experimental theatre of dream and vision to Denmark.

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Kjeld Abell , 1901-61, Danish playwright. Abell's Melody That Got Lost (1935, tr. 1939) was an early success. Trained as a stage designer, he was an innovator in stage technique. He later turned to ethical and social drama; Anna Sophie Hedvig (1939, tr. 1944), The Queen Walks Again (1943), Silkeborg (1946), and Skriget (1961) are arresting and powerful problem plays concerned with justice and social protest.

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