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English writer and theatre critic

Doris Caroline Abrahams (8 December 1901 – 5 December 1982), commonly known by the pseudonym Caryl Brahms, was an English critic, novelist, and journalist specialising in the theatre and ballet. She also wrote film, radio and television scripts. As a student at London's Royal Academy of Music, Brahms was dissatisfied with her own skill as a pianist, and left without graduating. She contributed light verse, and later stories for satirical cartoons, to the London paper The Evening Standard in the late 1920s. She recruited a friend, S. J. Simon, to help her with the cartoon stories, and, in the 1930s and 40s, they collaborated on a series of comic novels, some with a balletic background and others set in various periods of English history. At the same time as her collaboration with Simon, Brahms was a ballet critic, writing for papers including The Daily Telegraph. Later, her interest in ballet waned, and she concentrated on reviewing plays. After Simon's sudden death in 1948, Brahms wrote solo for some years but, in the 1950s, she established a second long running collaboration with the writer and broadcaster Ned Sherrin, which lasted for the rest of her life. Together they wrote plays and musicals for the stage and television, and published both fiction and non fiction books.

1937 A Bullet in the Ballet. London: Michael Joseph. OCLC 752997851
1938 Casino for Sale. London: Michael Joseph. OCLC 558706784. (Published in America as Murder à la Stroganoff. New York: Doubleday, Doran. 1938. OCLC 11309700)
1939 The Elephant is White. London: Michael Joseph. OCLC 558706826
1940 Envoy on Excursion. London: Michael Joseph. OCLC 154388199
1940 Don't, Mr. Disraeli!. London: Michael Joseph. OCLC 462681016
1941 No Bed for Bacon. London: Michael Joseph. OCLC 558706853
1944 No Nightingales. London: Michael Joseph. OCLC 558706895
1945 Six Curtains for Stroganova. London: Michael Joseph. OCLC 9495601. (Published in America as Six Curtains for Natasha. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. 1946. OCLC 1040925)
1946 Trottie True. London: Michael Joseph. OCLC 475946887
1947 To Hell with Hedda! and other stories. London: Michael Joseph. OCLC 8298701
1950 You Were There – Eat, drink, and be merry, for yesterday you died. London: Michael Joseph. OCLC 154216656

After Simon's death, Brahms was sure that she never wished to collaborate with any other writer. and a melodramatic romantic novel, Away Went Polly (1952), of which the critic Julian Symons wrote, "Miss Brahms is perhaps aiming at elegant sophistication; she achieves more often the ecstatically thrilled note of a saleswoman in a high class dress shop." She expanded her range as a critic to include opera and drama as well as ballet. but was not a box office success. It was based on a radio play that Brahms and Sherrin had written in 1957. In 1963, Brahms published her second solo novel, No Castanets, a gently humorous work about the Braganza empire in Brazil. When Sherrin became a television producer in the 1960s, he and Brahms always wrote the weekly topical opening number for the ground breaking satirical show That Was The Week That Was and its successors. merely confused the subject. In The Guardian, Stephen Dixon wrote that Brahms "manages to coast over the fact that we've heard it all before by going off at entertaining tangents in a series of anecdotes, personal interpolations, witty irrelevancies and theories." The following year, she published Reflections in a Lake: A Study of Chekhov's Greatest Plays. Brahms never married. Frederic Raphael observed that "her one true love", Jack Bergel, was killed in the Second World War. She died at her flat in Regent's Park, London aged 80.