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West Yorkshire Playhouse

1996

Normal Productions

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

dramadocumentary

Play/Drama

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Features a rich soundtrack with recordings, including interviews, made in formerJugoslavia. Ray Brown plays himself.

creates a unique impression of Yugoslavia and its peoples before, during and after the Balkan wars. Focusing on the writer's friends &is normal! is a celebration of the strength of the human spirit in the face of tragedy.In a sequence of scenes responding to the dictates of emotion and memory, writer and broadcaster Ray Brown uses recorded interviews, actors, fact and fiction to explore his relationship with former Yugoslavia and her people. Brown first visited Yugoslavia in 1985 and has been back once or twice a year ever since; his friends there, of all nationalities, include poets, peasants, painters, musicians and waiters. The performance is set between 1985 and 1996 in the Istrian hamlet of 'Malo Brdo' (an assumed name for an actual hamlet), Leeds and Dalmatia. Mixing techniques and conventions of stage and radio drama, radio documentary, poetry and vernacular, music and fx recorded on location, &is normal! creates a compelling impression of place and time.

Leeds West Indian Centre

2003

Normal Productions

as 'to live it is to know it' by Normal Productions,

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If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
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biographical drama

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part of the British Council Edfringe Showcase in 2005.

From childhood in Jamaica to old age in England - Alfred Williams was an ordinary man made extraordinary by a harsh life and his attitude to it. Everal A. Walsh and Pauline Tomlin or Litty Ezieffula star in Ray Brown's seriously funny biographical play which is peppered with wisdom, tears, hope and laughter. LIVING PRETTY is rich in the poetry of Jamaican storytelling and is enjoyed by old and young alike.

Carriageworks Upstairs, Leeds

2006

Normal Productions

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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VACANT POSSESSION is set in the mid Eighties. Joe (66), fearing dementia, decides to sell his house and commit suicide. Gary (25), a man of untested left wing principle, seeks a house and independence from his mother. Fascinated by Joe, Gary finds his value system under threat. A deal is struck. Gary buys the house and mortgages himself for years to come. He agrees to let Joe live in the house 'until the time is right.' Joe persuades Gary to becomes his accomplice in a series of unsuccessful suicide attempts. The developing relationship with Gary renews Joe's interest in life and his sense of well-being. However, he has donated to an obscure charity his meagre savings and the sale price of his house. Joe and his 'wife', the third Mrs Sweetman, (an inflatable lady) are now homeless. Gary homes the homeless. In his new house, with his new family, he begins to reconstruct his political identity. VACANT POSSESSION runs for one hour fifty minutes to include a twenty minute interval.