Kjeld Abell (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. Three plays 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.