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Blake Morrison

BLAKE MORRISON  

 Nationality:    British
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below is a list of Blake Morrison's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Antigone         Country         Cracked Pot, The         Dr Ox's Experiment         Kindertotenlieder         Lisa's Sex Strike         Man With Two Gaffers, The         Oedipus         Rutherford and Son         We Are Three Sisters

Antigone

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Sophocles

1st Produced:
Salts Mill, Saltaire, Bradford    2003

Organisations:
Northern Broadsides

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
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Further Reference:
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Country

Synopsis:
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Notes:
From Kleist

1st Produced:
Courtyard, West Yorkshire    1995

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Cracked Pot, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Heinrich von Kleist (Der Zerbrochene Krug)

1st Produced:
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, UK    1995

Organisations:
Northern Broadsides

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1997   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Dr Ox's Experiment

Synopsis:
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Notes:
composer Gavin Bryars

1st Produced:
ENO, London    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Libretto

Parts:
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Kindertotenlieder

Synopsis:
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Notes:
composer Robert LePage

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Lisa's Sex Strike

Synopsis:
It's 2007 in the northern mill-town of Blackhurst and intolerable racial tensions are tearing the mixed community apart. Summat must be done, and sharpish. Radical behaviour requires a radical plan and Lisa hatches an outrageous plot to encourage peace - no more nooky 'til the fighting stops. But as the women of Blackhurst strive towards love. . .not war. . .they make a disturbing discovery that turns their local dispute into a demonstration of global proportions.

Notes:
A new version of Aristophanes' classic comedy Lysistrata

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Northern Broadsides & the Octagon Theatre, Bolton production

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Man With Two Gaffers, The

Synopsis:
A shaggy dog story's a shaggy dog story no matter how you dress it up. In this case it's Carlo Goldini's 18th-century Italian pedigree comedy that's been made over as a snappy 19th century Yorkshire yarn. What's more, it gets a typical eh-by-gum grooming.
Patrick Marmion, Daily Mail

Notes:
Original Playwright - Carlo Goldoni (A Servant to Two Masters)

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Northern Broadsides

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Oedipus

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Sophocles. Revival

1st Produced:
Viaduct, Halifax    2001

Organisations:
Northern Broadsides

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Rutherford and Son

Synopsis:
This powerful Drama written and set in the North of England, 1912, is an unflinching portrayal of an industrial Edwardian family on the brink of collapse. John Rutherford is a tyrannical patriarch, blind to the hopes and feelings of his family. the success of the family-owned glassworks, Rutherford & Son, takes precedence over everything... even happiness. In a household run on fear cracks begin to appear. the emotional pitch builds up like a pressure cooker. the Dramatic voltage intensifies as Rutherford's absolute authority is challenged and a catastrophic family mutiny begins to unfold, threatening to destroy his world and his factory.

Notes:
from book by Githa Soerby

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Northern Broadsides

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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We Are Three Sisters

We Are Three Sisters
We Are Three Sisters relates the story of the three sisters of the Chekhov play to the Bronte sisters and their brother at Haworth in 1848. Morrison said, "there are good reasons for transplanting the play to Haworth and for identifying the Serghyeevna sisters with the Brontes; they even have a troubled and self-destructive brother in common. Above all I hope that, by taking a cue from Chekhov, the play will banish the gloom surrounding the Brontes and reveal the northern humour and resilience they showed, despite the ever-present threat of death and disease. In other words, I'd like to honour the truth of the Brontes while showing Charlotte, Emily, Anne, Branwell and Patrick as they've never been seen before."

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Viaduct Theatre in Halifax    09 Sep 2011

Organisations:
Northern Broadsides

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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