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Morna Pearson

MORNA PEARSON

  
Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    Knight Hall Agency Ltd  

Morna Pearson is an Edinburgh-based playwright originally from Elgin, Scotland. One of her recent plays The Artist Man and the Mother Woman premiered at the Traverse Theatre in November 2012. A Quebecois translation of the play was given a staged reading at Theatre La Licorne in Montreal, 2014. Her first full professional production was Distracted (Traverse Theatre), which won the Meyer-Whitworth Award in 2007. Other plays include: The Strange Case of Jekyll & Hyde (adaptation, Lung Ha Theatre Company); Couldn't Care Less (co-wrote text, Plutot La Vie/Strange Theatre); Ailie & The Alien (National Theatre Connections); Un Petit Moliere (adaptation, Lung Ha Theatre Company); The Company Will Overlook a Moment of Madness (adaptation, NTS/Oran Mor); Elf Analysis (Oran Mor). Radio plays: Side Effects (BBC Radio 3/Bona Broadcasting); McBeth's McPets (BBC Radio Scotland). Morna was the Traverse Theatre's ChAnnel 4 Playwright in 2014 and is now an Artistic Associate of the theatre.

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

         Ailie and the Alien         Artist Man and the Mother Woman, The         Company Will Overlook a Moment of Madness, The         Couldn't Care Less         Distracted         Elf Analysis         Flying Doctor, The         Leithtivity         News Just In         Old Blood         Seductive Countess, The         Skin; or How to Disappear         Strange Case of Jekyll & Hyde, The         Un Petit Moliere         Walking On Walls         Welcome to the Hotel Caledonia

Ailie and the Alien

Synopsis:
Allie is a human and things have been going wrong for her for a while now. Finn is an alien who has crash landed on earth. When Finn take a shine to Allie things suddenly start going right in her life. But when Finn is summoned to return home everything begins to unravel.

Notes:
UROCK Youth theatre

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National Theatre Connections

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TYA

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Artist Man and the Mother Woman, The

Synopsis:
Geoffrey Buncher is an art teacher. Until now his only meaningful relationship has been with his mother Edie, who doesn't want her 'wee man growing up too fast'. One day he reads in the paper that he's working in amongst the top 10 sexiest professions. He decides it's time for change. Now Geoffrey is old enough to buy his own Ribena, and it's time to find himself a wife.

Notes:
Written in Morna Pearson's trademark "lurid, post-modern Doric" (the Scotsman),the Artist Man and the Mother Woman is a wickedly funny, surreal portrait of a spectacularly dysfunctional relationship.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  131

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Company Will Overlook a Moment of Madness, The

Synopsis:
Oran Mor's A Play, A Pie and A Pint spring season at Edinburgh's Traverse theatre, presented in association with the National theatre of Scotland, will feature five plays from South America, adapted by Scottish playwrights.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Rodolfo Santana

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Genre:
short adaptation

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Couldn't Care Less

Synopsis:
Elspeth comes and goes, through windows into another world. Her school of dance lies empty. the doctors say it's Alzheimer's. Elspeth and her daughter Lilly embark on a journey of frustration, humour and ultimately love as Lilly learns to dance with the person who is, not the mother who was. Inspired by the experiences of carers, Couldn't Care Less is a dark, surreal, funny and moving story of two women whose lives are disappearing.

Notes:
Created by Liz Strange, Tim Licata, Hilde McKenna and Morna Pearson with Alice Wilson and Malcolm Shields. Text by Morna Pearson.

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Organisations:
Strange Theatre and Plutot la Vie

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Distracted

Distracted
Avid insect-collector Jamie Purdy and his disintegrating granny are new to the Morayshire caravan park where George-Michael Skinner and his young mother Bunny lives. But this is no ordinary mother and son relationship.

Notes:
Part of "Tilt"

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Genre:
Short play One Act

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Elf Analysis

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Flying Doctor, The

Synopsis:
the Flying Doctor, Sganarelle, and his medical accomplice, Jean-Luc, convince Gorgibus that they are real doctors so Valere can marry Lucile. But what does the lawyer think? Where are the twins? And, most importantly, can you have an aching asparagus?

Notes:
Original Playwright - Moliere. Part of Un Petit Moliere

1st Produced:
Edinburgh, Performing Arts     10 Apr 2013

Organisations:
Lung Ha's Theatre Company

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adaptation

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Leithtivity

Synopsis:
Heavily pregnant Mary and the ineffectual Joseph cannot get a room at the Leith Holy Day Inn because superstar Clifton John is switching on the Christmas lights and has taken them all for himself and entourage. Donkey - a talking donkey offers to take them to the Village Pub. When they get there they find that a group therapy session for talking animals is taking place

Notes:
Written by Colin Bell; Sophie Good; Catherine Grosvenor; Louise Knowles; James Ley; Morna Pearson

1st Produced:
The Village Pub, Leith     16 Dec 2013

Organisations:
Village Pub Theatre

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Genre:
Pantomime

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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News Just In

Synopsis:
A nightly roundup of all things Commonwealth Games, with a brand new story every night. Featuring a cast of six of Scotland's top comedy actors with a dynamic team of fantastic writers, anything can (and probably will) happen! Follow the TV-tastic, tantalizing soap opera whilst hearing all the up to date Games news and gossip from Tom Daley to Tom Foolery with views from Tom, Dick and Harry. A fast paced, raucous romp of a theatre show!

Notes:
part of Culture 2014 at the Arches. Written by Colin Bell, Danny Brown, Julie Brown, Mary Gapinski, Lesley Hart, Lewis Hetherington, Lisa Keddie, Martin McCormick, Johnny McKnight, Douglas Maxwell, Morna Pearson, Lynda Radley, Stef Smith and Anita Vettesse.

1st Produced:
Arches, Glasgow, UK >>>     22 Jul 2014

Organisations:
Random Accomplice

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Music:
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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Old Blood

Synopsis:
Johnny has crippling arthritis and has been struggling to cope with the unpredictable behaviour of his dementia-suffering wife Annie. He decides to admit Annie to a nursing home, where he visits her every day. At the home they encounter Arts and crafts, Wii Fit, and vampirism.

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Organisations:
a Play, a Pie and a Pint

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Seductive Countess, The

Synopsis:
the Seductive Countess running her court of admirers; find out just how many servants (Criquet) are needed to keep her ostentatious house in order. And just what is the secret to becoming an accountable suitor for the unbearable (but also very rich) countess? and can the Viscount play his cards right to get to his real love, Julie?

Notes:
Original Playwright - Moliere. Part of Un Petit Moliere

1st Produced:
Edinburgh, Performing Arts     10 Apr 2013

Organisations:
Lung Ha's Theatre Company

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Music:
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adaptation

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Skin; or How to Disappear

Synopsis:
Robert hasn't left the house since Helen Daniels from Neighbours died. Having pulled out every hair on his body, he has started peeling off all of his skin. His routine is interrupted by a visit from an incapacity benefit assessor. Somebody's life is about to change.

Notes:
Agent 160 theatre Company: Short plays. Agent 160 is A new company Aiming to Address the fact that women write just 17 per cent of All theatre work produced in the UK.

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Organisations:
Agent 160 Theatre Company

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Genre:
10 min play

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Strange Case of Jekyll & Hyde, The

Synopsis:
Edinburgh, 1886; when the city's Old and New Towns are separated by more than just the North Bridge. In the New Town we meet the Jekyll family. Dr Jekyll longs for just one of his "radical" experiments to go right. Daughter Miriam longs for the right to attend University. Son William is never far from his needlework, and wife Jane never far from the bottle. While seemingly a world away in the Old Town a murky figure known as Hyde roams the moonlit streets. Featuring a cast of over twenty actors together with five musicians, Lung Ha's Theatre Company and Drake Music Scotland bring to life Morna Pearson's dramatic re-working of the classic story, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Relocated to the divided city of Stevenson's birth, this is Edinburgh's story of the darkness and the light

Notes:
Inspired by RL Stevenson's classic story.

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Lung Ha's Theatre Company / Drake Music Scotland

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Un Petit Moliere

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Performing Arts - Edinburgh     2013

Organisations:
Lung Ha's Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Walking On Walls

Synopsis:
When Claire was little shed pretend she was Superman, flying through the air as she leapt from one wall to another. Now shes an adult she hates her dull office job. She also hates the litter, the graffiti and the drugs on the streets of her town. Someone has to do something about it and shes on a mission to clean up. Tonight, however, she might find more than she bargained for.

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1st Produced:
Glasgow, Oran Mor     10 Oct 2016

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Genre:
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Welcome to the Hotel Caledonia

Synopsis:
It's election night in the Hotel Caledonia, not that anybody cares. there are two weddings on and one's descending into a fistfight. the bar's littered with exhausted politicians who can't bring themselves to watch the count, the groom's trying to decide which bridesmaid to chat up on the principle of the single transferable vote, and Mr and Mrs Scotland's attempt at a dirty weekend is descending into divorce. At the centre of it all, Svetlana - the Lithuanian receptionist - is trying to decide whether she should stay or go. Can Gavin - the assistant manager with a crush on her the size of a small Baltic Republic - persuade her that Scotlands got a future? Welcome to the Hotel Caledonia will be written in the two days prior to May 5th to capture the immediacy and excitement of the election and the unfolding events of the week. It will be performed script in hand on the day of the election itself. Some of Scotland's most exciting writers will conjure up a cast of dreamers, ranters, visionaries and street preachers all trying to make sense of a country which just can't seem to make up its mind what it wants. Expect comedy, satire and probably a fair degree of bitterness and rage.

Notes:
written by Peter Arnott, Alan Bissett, David Greig, David Ireland, Rona Munro, Morna Pearson, Alan Wilkins

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Genre:
election specia

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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