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Gerry Mulgrew

GERRY MULGREW

  
Nationality:    Scottish
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Gerry Mulgrew's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Brassed Off         Brave         Fergus Lamont         House With the Green Shutters         Peer Gynt         Tales Of the Arabian Nights         Tall Tales for Little People         Tam O'Shanter         Wee Bit Of How Do You Do, A         Wee Home From Home, A         Zlata's Diary

Brassed Off

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1st Produced:
Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow    2002

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Brave

Synopsis:
the forced resettlement of Indian tribes

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Old Fruit Market, Glasgow    2002

Organisations:
Communicado Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

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Fergus Lamont

Synopsis:
Robin Jenkins' 1979 novel Fergus Lamont is a wonderfully eccentric rags-to-riches story that speaks powerfully about the peculiarities of the class system and the events of the early 20th century. It echoes the story of Pip in Great Expectations, but in Jenkins' book, the hero sets out to claim the noble heritage he believes he deserves as the illegitimate son of a Scottish earl. Despite his lowly background, he wears a kilt and prefers to be known as Wrgus Corse-Lamont. Distancing friends and family, he reinvents himself as one of the gentry, outdoing his officer class in his patrician attitudes. Only his uncharacteristic gift for poetry gives vent to his humanitarian heart. It takes the failure of his hubristic scheme for him to reconnect to the people he has denied.
Mark Fisher, Guardian

Notes:
from the novel by Robin Jenkins

1st Produced:
Perth    2007

Organisations:
Communicado

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  doubling, extras

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House With the Green Shutters

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Peer Gynt

Synopsis:
Symbolic satirical in verse based on Norwegian folklore.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen; Written in collaboration with StephenJjeffreys

1st Produced:
Kendal, Cumbria    1981

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  Large Cast

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Tales Of the Arabian Nights

Synopsis:
these rich, beautifd and wickedly humorous stories of Basra as a city of fun-loving old widows, giant farts and harassed municipal governors, or of Baghdad as the beatiful, bustling mother of all cities, trying a ouch of emotional blackmail to keep her son Sinbad at home, contain a profound Christmas message about the common humanity we all share.
Joyce McMillan, Scotsman

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Organisations:
Communicado Theatre Company

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Genre:
Youth Audience

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Tall Tales for Little People

Synopsis:
As a travelling family make their way up to Blairgowrie for the berry picking, they stop for the night and bewitch us with centuries old stories from the world of travellers' tales. This collection of wonderful stories has been woven into a hugely entertaining tapestry of laughter and adventure. Giggles by the bucket load, a touch of the macabre, magical transformations and fantastic live music bring to life stories such as the Hunchback and the Swan and the Girl and the Boots.

Notes:
part of Tall Tales for Little people

1st Produced:
Touring Scotland    Sep 2011

Organisations:
Communicado and the NTS

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Piece

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Tam O'Shanter

Synopsis:
A highly visual, musical and comical imagining of the tale to celebrate Burns 250th anniversary

Notes:
from the poem by Rob Burns

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  6            Other:  extras

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Wee Bit Of How Do You Do, A

Synopsis:
In an abandoned Institute for Social Inclusion, a lost tribe of outcasts gather to spin tales from the margins and to evoke the ghosts of their past. A Wee Bit Of How Do You Do uses real life stories to tell of fantastic lives and survival, with a specially commissioned score, songs and ballads performed live by the company. A surreal story set around the streets of Glasgow, A Wee Bit of How Do You Do is a powerful, emotional and funny piece of music theatre, about the human soul and the prisons we build for it.

Notes:
written with Gordon Dougall

1st Produced:
Arches, Glasgow, UK >>>    28 Feb 2001

Organisations:
Sounds of Progress

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Devised Piece

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Wee Home From Home, A

Synopsis:
wry tribute to Glasgow through dance and song

Notes:
Devised by Michael Marra, Frank McConnell, Gerry Mulgrew And Karen Tennent

1st Produced:
BAC , London >>>    1989

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Devised Piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  pianist

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Zlata's Diary

Synopsis:
"the first 20 minutes are banal. That's deliberate. It's all trips to the country, woodwork lessons and piano practice for Zlata Filipovic, 10, and her middle-class family in sunny Sarajevo. Her everyday enthusiasms, for Michael Jackson and the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, make it all the more poignant when the shells and sniper fire descend on her city. This is a vision of war as a robber of childhood. Filipovic's diary was first published in 1993 and became an international best-seller. Thanks to her French publisher, it was her passport out of Bosnia-Herzegovina. ", Guardian

Notes:
from the diaries of Zlata Filipovic

1st Produced:
Lemon Tree, Aberdeen    2004

Organisations:
Communicado Productions Ltd

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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