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MELVILLE LOVATT |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Plays by Melville Lovatt |
Boomerang | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (2000) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840943115 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21286 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Ben, aged 12, has been given a boomerang and sets out with his father and grandfather to try it out in the local park. Unfortunately, the boomerang becomes lodged in the branches of a very high tree. No amount of stone throwing by Ben's father, Bob, can dislodge the boomerang from the tree. The image of the boomerang lost in the tree's branches becomes central to the lives of the three. For all three are struggling separately with feelings of loss: Of a boomerang, of a job, of a wife and mother and of life itself. Their emotions and knowledge are concealed from each other for reasons of pride, cowardliness and love. | |||||
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Desperate Measures | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (2004) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840944518 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117680 | |||
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Genre: | Full Length Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Bet and Ian are employed by Cecil as his housekeepers aŽuOn a six months trial`. After only five months, facing certain dismissal, Bet resorts to aŽuDesperate Measures` to save their jobs. These measures spark a duel with Cecil`s aŽufriend`, Benny, who now sees his own position in the household threatened. The duel, driven by greed and insecurity, intensifies until Bet`s husband, Ian, unwittingly helps to decide the final outcome. Written with great economy, rhythm and verve, concerned with the shifting nature of power, aŽuDesperate Measures` is by turns vividly comic, violent, unpredictable, and wildly funny. | |||||
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Five Monologues | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21287 | |||
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Genre: | Anthology One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | Melville Lovatt's Five Monologues focus on the dispossessed. On love, sex, betrayal, isolation. In 'Access' Marshall, reduced to seeing his children on Sundays only, yearns for forgiveness from the wife he has betrayed. In 'Monologue' a man confronts his wife's betrayal, discovered only after her death. 'Bedtime Story' has a couple, Sarah and Miles, attempting to escape, through memory or fantasy, their immediate bedtime situation. In 'Three Piece Suite' the suite itself is pivotal to Ron's dispossession, whilst Gem recalls the changing nature of 'The Silence' to her husband, who has just taken his own life. By turns, simple and complex, funny and tragic. These powerful pieces demand to be seen. | |||||
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Grave, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Little Theatre, London | 1971 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21288 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | About two men meeting in a graveyard. Explores the precarious nature of life and conversation. | |||||
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Lamp, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (2005) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840945409 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117681 | |||
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Genre: | One Act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Doreen and Arnold have driven 25 miles to buy a lamp advertised in a magazine. Unfortunately, to their increasing frustration, Doreen, on actually seeing the lamp, is unable to decide whether she really wants to buy it. Their frustration is further greatly increased when they discover they have accidentally been locked in the shop overnight. Doreen and Arnold have been growing apart. Now trapped together with no chance of escape, they are forced to examine their present relationship. Will 'THE LAMP` bring them closer or drive them further apart? A funny, sad, tender, richly comic two-hander. | |||||
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Powers That Be, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840947427 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117682 | |||
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Genre: | Full Length Thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | boy | |||||
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Synopsis: | Matt & Gary are 'minding' a man and awaiting instructions from the powers that be. Instructions which will decided the man's fate, and also, unbeknown to Gary, his own. For Gary, the time has finally come to prove himself to the powers that be. It's a aptitude test of some kind, that's all THE POWERS THAT BE is a claustrophobic thriller which grips by the throat and never lets go. By turns, very funny, moving and chilling, it is also a very timely reminder of what can happen when humanity is brutalized and manipulated. Prize winner - Sussex Playwrights Club Full Length Playwriting Competition. | |||||
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Small Mercies | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840944808 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117683 | |||
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Genre: | Full Length Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | In Melville Lovatt's award-winning comedy/drama SMALL MERCIES, people's lives hang well and truly in the balance. Shop owner Donald and wife Andrea are desperate people with a failing business. They decide to pay an arsonist to set fire to their shop so they can claim on the insurance and start a new life. Little do they know that two late customers have inadvertently been locked inside! As the two couples, each with their own very different problems, touch each others lives with unexpected results, the comedy, pathos, and fragility of existence shines through in this ultimately heart-warming play. Prize Winner - Jack Langford Memorial Award Prize Winner - Derek Lomas Memorial Award | |||||
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Visiting Time | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (2010) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840947731 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117684 | |||
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Genre: | Full Length Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Stella returns to visit the husband and children she walked out on nearly forty years ago. Her visit exposes a monstrous fiction, her past challenging the assumptions and perceptions of the present and changing forever the lives of the family. With its own dark imagery, poetry and humour, VISITING TIME is a powerful family drama with sharp focus on the nature of loyalty and deception. It's portrait of a divided family is unforgettable and, finally, surprisingly uplifting. | |||||
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Weekend, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (2001) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840943368 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21289 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Colin returns, after many years away, to pay a weekend visit to Henry and Clair. On arriving, he announces a 'change of plan', indicating he will be staying much longer. For Colin has returned to win Clair from Henry. Beneath seemingly light conversation, both men become locked in their battle for Clair. But Clair is not a trophy to be fought for and won. She ultimately belongs to herself. 'The Weekend', for all three, brings into sharp focus their past and present isolation from each other. | |||||
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