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Tom Morton-Smith

TOM MORTON-SMITH

  (1980 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    United Agents  represented by Rose Cobbe

Playwright Tom Morton-Smith's plays include Salt Meets Wound (Theatre503), In Doggerland (Box of Tricks at Theatre503), Venison (Yellowtale Theatre Company at the Hawth, Crawley), Uncertainty (Sincera Productions at Latitude Festival) andthe Hygiene Hypothesis (Sincera Productions at Latitude Festival). He collaborated with composer Jon Nicholls on a play with music, Blunderbuss (the Theatre, Chipping Norton). He wrote an episode of BBC Radio 7's Man In Black series, entitled Flesh. He has had short plays and rehearsed readings performed at the Old Vic, the Hampstead Theatre, the Soho Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre, Trafalgar Studios, the Liverpool Everyman, the Southwark Playhouse, the Arcola Theatre and Shakespeare's Globe. He was writer-in-residence at Paines Plough in 2007-08. He is currently under commission to the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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below is a list of Tom Morton-Smith's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         12 Metres from the Seabed (350 from the Shore)         Appendix         Black Boxes & Amber Rooms         Blood On the 3for2 Display         Blunderbuss         Collison         Confessional         Earthworks, The         Everyday Maps For Everyday Use         Hygiene Hypothesis, The         In Doggerland         Lightly Fry the Green Turtle         Oppenheimer         Origins         Out Of Time         Rodeo         Salt Meets Wound         Uncertainty         Venison

12 Metres from the Seabed (350 from the Shore)

Synopsis:
1952, the Montebello Islands, 80 miles off the coast of North Western Australia. Two scientists and four Royal Navy seamen experience the testing of Britain's first nuclear weapon.

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Paines Plough

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Appendix

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1st Produced:
Pleasance, London    2004

Organisations:
Sincera Theatre

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Black Boxes & Amber Rooms

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National Drama Student Festival

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Blood On the 3for2 Display

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1st Produced:
Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton    2006

Organisations:
Paines Plough

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Blunderbuss

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Notes:
music by Jon Nicholls

1st Produced:
The Theatre, Chipping Norton    2009

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Collison

Synopsis:
Four darkly funny and thought-provoking short plays set on 23 November 2009 - the day when particles first smashed together at the Large Hadron Collider. One event. Several lives. the strange and mundane brought together.

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1st Produced:
Henham Park, Southwold    13 Jul 2012

Organisations:
Eyebrow Productions

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Confessional

Synopsis:
We never really know what goes on behind closed doors; what secrets lay hidden in the deepest, darkest drawers. Down the shadowy, winding streets of Battersea, lost in the smog of the city, sits theatre503, home to Confessional; a series of five short plays which entice you into a world full of secrets, lies, obsession and sex. Sit tight as we take you on a journey into the dark, cobwebbed corners of your mind! We hope you're sitting comfortably. . .

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A series of 6 short plays: by Georgina Burns,Tom Morton-Smith, Lucinda Burnett and Dawn King.

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Earthworks, The

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the Miniaturists is a growing group of playwrights and other theatre workers interested in the possibilities of the short play.

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Miniturists 38

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Everyday Maps For Everyday Use

Everyday Maps For Everyday Use
Maggie has found a warm patch of ground on Horsell Common. She believes something is buried in the dirt. This is the site of the Martian invasion in H G Wells' the War of the Worlds and she sneaks out of the house in the dead of night and dances on the warm spot. Here she meets Behrooz, an amateur astronomer who spends his nights mapping the surface of Mars. Cartographer John is remapping the streets of Woking. He's about to become a Father and is terrified by the thought. He finds an ally in Corinne, Maggie's mother - a woman struggling to keep her sex life separate and secret from her daughter. Kiph, who everyone thinks is gay, its madly in love with Maggie, his best-friend. He attends a book signing to meet his hero, Richard Bleakman - star of cult 80s sci-fi show John Carter of Mars. Richard has problems of his own. A stunning new play about fantasy and sexuality, and about the blurry and indistinct lines between reality and desire.

Notes:
second place in the Papatango Playwriting Competition 2012

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Organisations:
Papatango Theatre Company

1st Published:
Oberon Books (2012) >>>    978-1849434416

Music:
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Hygiene Hypothesis, The

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1st Produced:
Latitude Festival    2007

Organisations:
Sincera Productions

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In Doggerland

Synopsis:
You know when a song gets stuck in your head? Round and round. . . over and over. I've got that now. . . only it's not a piece of music. . . it's not a tune. . . it's a phrase: home is where the heart is. . . home is where the heart is. A coastline erodes, a house falls into the sea. A mysterious brother and sister arrive looking for answers. Marnie clings to her camera, taking photographs of strangers and places. She has come to say goodbye to a life she never knew whilst her brother Linus is keen to make a fresh start. But when they find Simon and daughter Kelly, reeling in the wake of tragedy, all four lives are to become inextricably linked under the weight of the past. A funny and heartfelt story about lives lived on shifting sands; In Doggerland is a searching examination of love, family and identity.

Notes:
part of LabFest

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Lightly Fry the Green Turtle

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Part of Miniaturists 15 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today

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Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer
1939: fascism spreads across Europe, Franco marches on Barcelona and two German chemists discover the processes of atomic fission. In Berkeley, California, theoretical physicists recognise the horrendous potential of this new science: a weapon that draws its power from the very building blocks of the universe. The ambitious and charismatic J Robert Oppenheimer finds himself uniquely placed to spearhead the largest scientific undertaking in all of human history. Struggling to cast off his radical past and thrust into a position of power and authority, Oppenheimer races to win the 'battle of the laboratories' and create a weapon so devastating that, with the detonation of a single device, it would bring about an end not just to the Second World War but to all war. As the political situation darkens, Tom Morton-Smith's new play takes us into the heart of the Manhattan Project and explores the tension between the scientific advances that will shape our understanding of the fabric of the universe, and the justification of their use during wartime, revealing the personal cost of making history.

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1st Published:
Oberon Books (2015) >>>    978-1783191987

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Genre:
Play/Drama 170 min

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Origins

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Organisations:
Drywrite

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Out Of Time

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written by Tom Morton-Smith and Judy Upton for Hampstead theatre's Daring Pairings week

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Rodeo

Synopsis:
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Full cast reading as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations for LOOK BACK IN ANGER

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Salt Meets Wound

Salt Meets Wound
Dylan Singer needs to leave London. With his alcoholic ex-fiancee he heads to Central Asia, to research the book he's always dreamt of writing. But it's 2002, the height of the 'War on Terror', and Uzbekistan isn't the belly-dancing opium den her is expecting. From 11th century Samarkand, through the Great Fire of London, to a disused weapons facility in the remotest place on earth, Salt Meets Wound is an epic odyssey spanning a thousand years.

Notes:
Originally performed with A cast of 8.

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Organisations:
Theatre 503

1st Published:
Oberon Books, London >>>, 2007   978-1840027525

Music:
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Uncertainty

Synopsis:
Explain the Unexplainable and How the sun burns.Why the stars shine. the science of love. How a dead cat can make a man vanish into nothingness. Professor Raymond Palmer, a specialist in quantum theory, has disappeared. Those closest to him are asked to explain his mysterious absence. Four intertwining stories, four different takes on one man's disappearance, Uncertainty looks at how science exists to help us explain the unexplainable.

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Organisations:
Operating Theatre Company and Sincera Productions

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short play One Act

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Venison

Synopsis:
Martin makes his money hunting deer with his 4x4, providing black-market meat to pubs and restaurants. He is drawn to the enigmatic figure of Robyn, a waitress who has never truly been close to anybody. A darkly humorous love-story from one of the UK's most exciting young playwrights.

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Organisations:
Yellowtale Theatre Company.

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