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Michael Morley

MICHAEL MORLEY  

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

         And This Was Christmas Eve!         Britannia Circus         Chrysalis         Holiday         Twenty-Forty

And This Was Christmas Eve!

Synopsis:
A light-hearted festive comedy though the theme of helping the homeless gives it a topical seriousness. Set in Edwardian times (when garden cities were springing up) in an Estate Agents office on Christmas Eve, Mrs Sparsit and Lucy are at work as church bells ring and snow is beginning to fall, but no one buys a house on Christmas Eve. Meanwhile, the Salvationists are out helping the poor and homeless, so Lucy and Mrs Sparsit decide to join in. This play evokes the warm-blooded spirit of a Dickensian story and with colourful characters, music and carols it offers an enjoyable, thought-provoking play for Christmas.

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1st Published:
New Theatre Publications (1997)   978-1840940954

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Genre:
Comedy One Act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Britannia Circus

Synopsis:
*Writing Award Winner* A fateful evening in Autumn. When the daughter of an old flame of his unexpectedly visits Don (for whom literature is the most important thing in his life) he is at once smitten - old rogue that he is - partly because of her great likeness to her mother. As she tells her story, however, he is brought to understand why she is here in the first place and learns some very painful truths about life - and about himself, too, when he is confronted with a frighteningly unfamiliar image of himself. then the real meaning of the Marlowe quotation is brought home to him - "Thou hast committed - Fornication"? "But that was in another country, and besides, the wench is dead."

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1st Published:
New Theatre Publications (1997)   978-1840940633

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Genre:
Comedy One Act

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Chrysalis

Synopsis:
At first we seem to be in routinely familiar territory. the setting is a desolate East End boozer a week before Christmas. the barman is a gloomy Wicklow exile grieving over his separation from his seven-year-old son. And, of his Saturday-night regulars, Billy is an effing-and-blinding builder who lives at home with his mum, while Guiseppe is an aged Italian hairdresser still haunted by the death of his English wife. We don't, however, learn much beyond the fact that pubs are second homes for sad, solitary men. Matters perk up decisively with the arrival of Charlie - a caustic postman mysteriously clutching a cello case. the Guardian

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1st Published:
New Theatre Publications (1997)   978-1840940503

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Genre:
Drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Holiday

Synopsis:
*Writing Award Winner* Dawn, Rachel, Fiona, Maggie and Baba have been out celebrating Dawn's hen night. they return in very high spirits to Bab's house, much the worse for drink. As they sit in the garden, Babs tells them the history of the house, in particular the cellar. She explains that years ago, it was used for Devil worshipping when a young virgin bride was offered up to the devil as a fertility rite. Spurred on by drink and an impromptu seance, all the girls decide to go down the cellar (the auditorium) and leave the stage. the mood changes Dramatically when the cellar door slams shut. the play continues for some time within the audience and in total darkness. Did the girls conjure up the devil? Was it just coincidences? Or was it a case of mass hysteria brought on by too much wine?

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1st Published:
New Theatre Publications (1997)   978-1840940961

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Genre:
Drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Twenty-Forty

Synopsis:
This is United Europe in 40 years time and the play Dramatises the tensions and controversies of a Social Contract where citizens are offered prolonged mature life without ageing or ill health in exchange for voluntary euthanasia at 100 years. Most people settle to enjoy their lives and happily conform to the system but Norah, reporting for her Final Certificate, wants to strike a blow for old-fashioned freedom - even ferment a rebellion! the seven women in the play are involved in a credible and powerful Drama that looks forward to life in the twenty-first century.

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1st Published:
New Theatre Publications (1997)   978-1840940589

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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  7            Other:  -

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