The Playwrights Database
MARTIN SHARP
(1958 - )Nationality: British
email: n/a Website: n/a
Literary Agent: Sheil Land Associates Ltd
Martin Sharp has worked in Theatre, film and television for over twenty years. He is an award winning film maker and has directed and produced for BBC Drama winning a rare place on their single camera Drama directors' development scheme. He is a specialist in the work of acting theorist, Michael Chekhov, and co-founder of the Michael Chekhov Centre UK. Legacy is his first full length stage play.
Buy Plays with Doollee
Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.AbeBooks.co.uk AbeBooks.com Stageplays.com amazon.com
amazon.co.uk
amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template
below is a list of Martin Sharp's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
LegacyLegacy
Synopsis:
What kind of legacy is it to be born into one of the richest families in the world, but lose your mother and Father before you are seventeen years old? What if you then fall in love, only to lose your husband in the First World War? Despite this inner world of profound tragedy, Dorothy Whitney Elmhirst created an outer world of extraordinary creativity, optimism and spiritual searching, co-founding the creative community at Dartington Hall and forming friendships with Mahatma Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martha Graham, Cecil Beaton, Henry Moore, Benjamin Britten and Aldous Huxley along the way. Following several heart attacks Dorothy comes to the Bahamas to write her memoirs, but the appearance of a mysterious stranger leads her to confront much more than she'd expected. What secrets of the past is he hoping to uncover? And how does he know her future? the play's conceit is to work across timeframes, both historical and contemporary. the audience are invited to playfully engage with the twinned realities - Is Dorothy imagining the stranger/biographer or is the stranger/biographer conjuring an imaginary conversation with the subject of his book: Dorothy Whitney Elmhirst.
Notes:
-
1st Produced:
Barn Theatre, Dartington Hall
2009
Organisations:
Theatre Of Angels
1st Published:
Pomegranate Press (April 24, 2009)
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: doubling
Further Reference:
-
Top of Page