Aba has also written many plays, which are often farces with political themes.[5] They have been performed in French theatres and on Radio France Internationale;[1] plays are rarely performed in Algeria unless they are in Arabic.[7] His plays include Tell el Zaatar s'est tu a la tombée du soir (Silence at Nightfall in Tell el Zaatar, 1981), which relates episodes from the history of Palestine, and L'Annonce faite à Marco, ou a l'aube et sans couronne (The Annunciation to Marco, or Uncrowned at Dawn, 1983), which is set during the Battle of Algiers in 1957.[7]