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Charles Morgan

CHARLES MORGAN

  (1894 - 1958)
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Roger Morgan c/o Oberon Books

Charles Langbridge Morgan (22 January 1894  6 February 1958), was an English-born playwright and novelist of English and Welsh parentage. the main themes of his work were, as he himself put it, "Art, Love, and Death"[1], and the relation between them. themes of individual novels range from the paradoxes of freedom (the Voyage, the River Line), through passionate love seen from within (Portrait in a Mirror) and without (A Breeze of Morning), to the conflict of good and evil (the Judge's Story) and the enchanted boundary of death (Sparkenbroke).

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below is a list of Charles Morgan's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Burning Glass, The         Flashing Stream, The         River Line, The
Burning Glass, The

Burning Glass, The
The Burning Glass is a three-act drama. Set in the 1950s as the suspicions and rivalries of the Cold War begin to grow. A British scientist has stumbled upon an immense new power which harnesses the Suns rays. In the enemys hands, it could be a devastating weapon. With spies closing in, Christopher turns to the Prime Minister for protection, but have they acted too slowly?

Notes:
For six men and two women, with most of the cast of a younger age and two in their 50s or higher. The running time is approximately 90 minutes.

1st Produced:
Brighton: Theatre Royal     18 Jan 1954

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Macmillan, London, 1953
Oberon Books (2013) >>>   

Music:
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Genre:
play 3 act

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 54.44

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Flashing Stream, The

Flashing Stream, The
the Daily Herald wrote that the Flashing Stream would indefinitely refute the old idea about the gulf between our preaching and the practice'. It was hailed as a masterpiece' by the Manchester Guardian, and also drew praise from the Telegraph who noted that it handles a major problem of humanity with passion and intelligence'.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Lyric Theatre, London     01 Sep 1938

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Macmillan, London, 1938
Oberon Books (2013) >>>   

Music:
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Genre:
play 3 act

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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River Line, The

River Line, The
Originally written by Morgan as a novel in 1949 the River Line was adapted by him for the Edinburgh Festival of 1952 with a cast that included Paul Scofield and Virginia McKenna. At the time Morgan was considered one of the greatest Dramatists of his era, before the angry young men of the late fifties revolutionised British theatre. With Harold Hobson of the Sunday Times describing him as "one of the most important writers of our generation" and the play as "the most exciting, the most sensitive, the most intellectually and emotionally alive play that the Edinburgh Festival has yet given us" and John Barber of the Daily Express writing of it "So dignified, it hurts."the River Line divided opinion straight down the middle. Drawing upon his own wartime experience Morgan tells the story of a group of downed, allied pilots in occupied France in 1943 hiding from the Nazis in the granary of a farmhouse owned by a member of the resistance. Tensions rise as they await news of the last leg of their journey through occupied Europe to the Pyrenees along the escape route known as 'the River Line'. As midnight approaches, one brutal action of terrible suddenness is to haunt their lives forever. It is the story of normal men and women are caught in the turmoil of war and how ordinary people are forced to face up to extraordinary circumstances.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Manchester Opera House     11 Aug 1952

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Macmillan, London, 1952
Oberon Books (2013) >>>   

Music:
-

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Genre:
play 3 act

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 52.182

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