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Martin Pengelly

MARTIN PENGELLY

  
Nationality:    British
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Martin Pengelly's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Fitzrovia Radio Hour, The         He Should Have Known His Place         Man Who Was Ten Minutes Late, The         Poland Street Stout Advertisements         Survival Of the Fittest

Fitzrovia Radio Hour, The

Synopsis:
Starting off by re-staging forties radio plays, this endearingly nostalgic company have now devised three originals that gently parody the sensationalist Dramas and stereotype-ridden attitudes of a time that was more racist and class-conscious than today.
http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/30970/the-fitzrovia-radio-hour

Notes:
Alix Dunmore, Jon Edgley Bond, Tom Mallaburn, Phil Mulryne, Martin Pengelly, Alex Ratcliffe, who Also direct And perform

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Seabright Productions and Fitzrovia

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
radio play

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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He Should Have Known His Place

Synopsis:
This show is presented as a 'live recording' of a triple bill of spoof '40s style radio mysteries. Drawing equally on MR James and 'Round the Horne', they're funny, but still a ripping set of yarns, just the right blend of pastiche and homage (best embodied by the marvellous 'the Man Who Was Ten Minutes Late', where a derring-do RAF pilot unwittingly creates a Nazi clone after he breaks the sound barrier). the show's equally a triumph of visual comedy. the real joy comes from the po-faced silliness with which the company - clad in evening wear and positioned behind old-fashioned microphones - uses absurd objects to generate sound effects. In the final analysis, perhaps the highest praise that can be bestowed upon 'the Fitzrovia Radio Hour' is that it makes use of two different types of cabbage, both funny.
Andrzej Lukowski, Time Out London

Notes:
written by Tom Mallaburn And Martin Pengelly. part of Fitzrovia Radio Hour Alert: Ambition! Exploration! Invasion!

1st Produced:
the Swan at Shakespeare's Globe, London    02 Mar 2010

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  6 performers

Further Reference:
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Man Who Was Ten Minutes Late, The

Synopsis:
This show is presented as a 'live recording' of a triple bill of spoof '40s style radio mysteries. Drawing equally on MR James and 'Round the Horne', they're funny, but still a ripping set of yarns, just the right blend of pastiche and homage (best embodied by the marvellous 'the Man Who Was Ten Minutes Late', where a derring-do RAF pilot unwittingly creates a Nazi clone after he breaks the sound barrier). the show's equally a triumph of visual comedy. the real joy comes from the po-faced silliness with which the company - clad in evening wear and positioned behind old-fashioned microphones - uses absurd objects to generate sound effects. In the final analysis, perhaps the highest praise that can be bestowed upon 'the Fitzrovia Radio Hour' is that it makes use of two different types of cabbage, both funny.
Andrzej Lukowski, Time Out London

Notes:
written by Tom Mallaburn And Martin Pengelly. part of Fitzrovia Radio Hour Alert: Gangsters! Monsters! Imposters!

1st Produced:
the Swan at Shakespeare's Globe, London    16 Feb 2010

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  6 performers

Further Reference:
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Poland Street Stout Advertisements

Synopsis:
This show is presented as a 'live recording' of a triple bill of spoof '40s style radio mysteries. Drawing equally on MR James and 'Round the Horne', they're funny, but still a ripping set of yarns, just the right blend of pastiche and homage (best embodied by the marvellous 'the Man Who Was Ten Minutes Late', where a derring-do RAF pilot unwittingly creates a Nazi clone after he breaks the sound barrier). the show's equally a triumph of visual comedy. the real joy comes from the po-faced silliness with which the company - clad in evening wear and positioned behind old-fashioned microphones - uses absurd objects to generate sound effects. In the final analysis, perhaps the highest praise that can be bestowed upon 'the Fitzrovia Radio Hour' is that it makes use of two different types of cabbage, both funny.
Andrzej Lukowski, Time Out London

Notes:
part of Fitzrovia Radio Hour Alert: Ambition! Exploration! Invasion!

1st Produced:
the Swan at Shakespeare's Globe, London    02 Mar 2010

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  6 performers

Further Reference:
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Survival Of the Fittest

Synopsis:
This show is presented as a 'live recording' of a triple bill of spoof '40s style radio mysteries. Drawing equally on MR James and 'Round the Horne', they're funny, but still a ripping set of yarns, just the right blend of pastiche and homage (best embodied by the marvellous 'the Man Who Was Ten Minutes Late', where a derring-do RAF pilot unwittingly creates a Nazi clone after he breaks the sound barrier). the show's equally a triumph of visual comedy. the real joy comes from the po-faced silliness with which the company - clad in evening wear and positioned behind old-fashioned microphones - uses absurd objects to generate sound effects. In the final analysis, perhaps the highest praise that can be bestowed upon 'the Fitzrovia Radio Hour' is that it makes use of two different types of cabbage, both funny.
Andrzej Lukowski, Time Out London

Notes:
written by Tom Mallaburn And Martin Pengelly. part of Fitzrovia Radio Hour Alert: the Driven! the Decadent! the Damned

1st Produced:
the Swan at Shakespeare's Globe, London    23 Feb 2010

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  6 performers

Further Reference:
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