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Margot Strickland

MARGOT STRICKLAND  (1927 - 2008)

 Nationality:    British
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Margot Strickland was born in Madrid of British parents, and became an actress. She married an entomologist, and accompanied him on his expeditions to the West African bush. Later they settled in Hertfordshire, and she turned to journalism and the writing of books, plays and short stories. Widowed, she moved to Suffolk, then Norfolk. Using her considerable knowledge of the stage she produced her plays in theatres, such as the Little Theatre, Sheringham, the Granary Theatre at Wells-next-the-Sea and the King's Lynn Arts Centre.She died at her home in Norfolk after a fall, in 2008.

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 Byron's The Waltz And The Blues         Evening With Fanny Burney         Exits And Entrances         Here And There         In Praise Of Wine         Lady Mulhammer         Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, The         Nelson & Emma         Olga, or, Pentimento         Patchwork Of Poetry, A         Pretty Witty Nell         Reason & Romance         Sonnetina         Stanian Monarchs         Teddy Twindletail Talks For England         Unaffected Prose: Jane Austen's letters

Byron's The Waltz And The Blues

Synopsis:
Byron's attitude to Caroline Lamb and Annabella Millbank

Notes:
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1st Produced:
University Women's ClubLondon    1979

Organisations:
MTS

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
recital

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  soprano and harpist

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Evening With Fanny Burney

Synopsis:
Scenes from novels framed by the Diary

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Wolferton Hall    -

Organisations:
MTS

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Recital Biographical

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Exits And Entrances

Synopsis:
From birth to death: prose, poetry, songs

Notes:
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1st Produced:
St Albans, Hertfordshire    1966

Organisations:
MTS

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
anthology recital

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  singer/guitarist

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Here And There

Synopsis:
scenes to show Shakespeare did not write plays; scenes to show he did

Notes:
assembled for de Vere Society

1st Produced:
Templewood, Norfolk    2002

Organisations:
MTS

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Historical

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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In Praise Of Wine

Synopsis:
anthology on theme of wine-drinking

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire    1968

Organisations:
MTS

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
recital

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  singer/guitarist

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Lady Mulhammer

Synopsis:
Family comedy of complex relationships

Notes:
from T s Eliot's Confidential Clerk

1st Produced:
Burlington Lodge, Sheringham    2003

Organisations:
MTS

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, The

Synopsis:
Christmas play adapted from C S Lewis's book (with his permission)

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Kimpston Hall, Hertfordshire    1962

Organisations:
MTS

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Childrens Play Youth Audience

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  creatures, guards

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Nelson & Emma

Synopsis:
Nelson and Emma in dialogue from their letters

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Greenwich    1981

Organisations:
MTS

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
recital with music

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  soprano and pianist

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Olga, or, Pentimento

Margot Strickland
Olga arose from a chance encounter with a young man whose mother, an artist, had died, leaving him surrounded with her works. Margot saw this as an example of pentimento, a term for a painting through which is glimpsed and earlier work, and once again Shakespeare's Sonnets, this time number 24, about painting provided support.

Notes:
Aka Pentimento

1st Produced:
Norfolk    2001

Organisations:
MTS

1st Published:
Felixstowe Rhapsody at Author Publishing Ltd, 2003
in "Plays of Margot Strickland", Braiswick (2004)   978-1898030393

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Patchwork Of Poetry, A

Synopsis:
themed poems

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Royal Festival Hall, London    1970

Organisations:
MTS

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
anthology

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  folk singer

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Pretty Witty Nell

Synopsis:
Cockney waif evolves into muse to Charles II's love

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Atheneum Club, London    1989

Organisations:
MTS

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
recital with music

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Reason & Romance

Synopsis:
Biographical vignette about William and Caroline Lamb and Queen Victoria

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire    1979

Organisations:
MTS

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
recital

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Sonnetina

Margot Strickland
Sonnetina is a romantic two-hander that was inspired from Margot's jury service at Norwich Crown Court. The case concerned a feisty, attractive young saleswoman cold-calling at a garden centre, whose owner was a sad, well-educated divorce. Margot linked this to Shakespeare's Sonnet 15, which is about gardening, and the play is the result.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Norfolk    2000

Organisations:
MTS

1st Published:
Felixstowe Rhapsody at Author Publishing Ltd, 2003
in "Plays of Margot Strickland", Braiswick (2004)   978-1898030393

Music:
-

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Genre:
Romantic comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Stanian Monarchs

Synopsis:
scenes from GBS featuring monarchs: King magnus, Caesar,Annajanska Bolshevik Empress.

Notes:
assembled to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee Year

1st Produced:
Shaws Corner, Ayot St lawrence    1975

Organisations:
MTS

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Historical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Teddy Twindletail Talks For England

Margot Strickland
based on an upper-class poet who lives in Norfolk (who will remain unidentified). Teddy is an affectionate, compassionate portrait of a middle-aged man who is surrounded by books, who has endured poverty, loneliness and his wife's desertion. Sonnet 143 provided the kernel of his soliloquy on his literary pilgrimage.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Granary Theatre, Wells-next-the-Sea    2003

Organisations:
MTS

1st Published:
Felixstowe Rhapsody at Author Publishing Ltd, 2003
in "Plays of Margot Strickland", Braiswick (2004)   978-1898030393

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Unaffected Prose: Jane Austen's letters

Synopsis:
Correspondence framing scenes from novels

Notes:
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1st Produced:
London    1983

Organisations:
MTS

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
recital with music

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  soprano and baritone

Further Reference:
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