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Edmund Morris

EDMUND MORRIS

  
Nationality:    USA
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B.A. LLB (law degree). Films: Walk on the Wild Side, Project X, Savage Guns. Over two-hundred teleplays. Wrote for Philco Playhouse, Suspense Medical Center (too many to mention) Taught Playwriting stage direction acting at Piscator s Workshop New York University of Denver. Address (in 1981): 1122 18th St Santa Monica CA 90403

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

         End Of Innocence         Parlor Game         Wooden Dish, The

End Of Innocence

Synopsis:
Nine A.D. the Emperor Augustus, discovering the adultery of his granddaughter Julia, exiles her as he did her mother for the same crime. He must find a scapegoat and divert the populace's attention. His victim is the poet Ovid who he believes has ridiculed his attempts to purge Rome of pornography and vice. Ovid must choose exile and death or betray a trust and his own conscience

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Parlor Game

Synopsis:
based upon the careers of the notorious Everleigh sisters who ran the most fashionable and famous brothel in Chicago at the turn of the century. the sisters, very proper ladies themselves, are determined to defeat the efforts of a reform Mayor to close them down and to frustrate the efforts of a group of competitive madams and their pimps, "the Friendly Friends," from causing them more grief. One night a client dies in one of the houses and his nude body is taken to the Everleigh Club and the police summoned. the sisters discover the treachery and the body is taken elsewhere. the night is spent trying to get rid of the body and to resolve a personal conflict in the lives of the sisters

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Male:  6            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Wooden Dish, The

Synopsis:
Concerns the cold war between a housewife (Clara) and the father-in-law she has been trying to dislodge ever since she married: a tough, asthmatic old wreck combining all the pride and cunning of his age with the simplicity of a baby. His son, Glenn, is tossed helplessly from one loyalty to another, and Clara has grown desperate enough for anything-even an attempted love affair with another man-to release her from this burden. When Pop finally gives up the fight to remain in his son's home, it is left to his granddaughter, Susan, to see with the compassion that only youth can feel for age, the true tragedy of his going.

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Phoenix Theatre, London    -

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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