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GUY MASTERSON |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: United Agents |
Guy Masterson was educated at Christ's Hospital School, Cardiff University, UCLA and LAMDA. He became an actor in 1985 while in Hollywood where he appeared in over twenty plays before returning to London in 1990. He formed his own theatre company (Theatre Tours International) in 1991 and has since presented and/or directed and/or performed in and/or written over 50 productions originating mainly at the Edinburgh Festival and garnering over 30 awards and nominations.
Plays by Guy Masterson
American Poodle | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Guy Masterson &Amp; Tti | |||||
| 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 | #70630 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | double bill written by Brian Parks and Guy Masterson | |||||
Synopsis: | Did you know that the Welsh got to America and colonised Alabama long before Christopher Columbus was even a twinkle in the eye? Or that within 50 years of the arrival of the Mayflower, around 98% of the indigenous population of the US had been killed off by the arrival of guns, smallpox and syphilis? More an entertaining lecture - without any visuals, alas - than a fully fledged theatre show, Guy Masterson's slightly alternative history of America runs from the 11th century through to the declaration of independence that offered liberty and the pursuit of happiness to all Americans - except the slaves. Masterson's monologue is the first half of this double bill exploring the special relationship between the UK and the US. The title of the show says it all, although it may be the wide-eyed American businessman in the second part of the bill, written by Brian Parks, who is being sold a pup. Parks's script is a neat little satire of these isles delivered by an American abroad whose entire knowledge of the country seems to come from Hollywood movies and TV specials on Dickens and Shakespeare. There are some nice observations on the British way of life - taxis are described as hearses for dwarves - and our cultural influence on the US: the language and the best way to shoot Indians. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Animal Farm | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arts, London | 1997 | ||||
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 | #22735 | |||
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Genre: | Solo Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | From George Orwell Novel | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fern Hill | ||
| 1st Produced: | Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh | 2001 | ||||
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 | #22736 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Homage to Dylan Thomas | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Goering's Defence | ||
| 1st Produced: | Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh | 2002 | ||||
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 | #22737 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Ross Gurney-Randall and Andrew Bailey | |||||
Synopsis: | Powermonger, paladin or pawn, Hermann Goering was the highest ranking Nazi at the Nuremberg Trials and he told it like it was, citing "truth and honour" as his guide. His defence was astounding, logically brilliant and morally indefensible. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Intimacy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh | 2002 | ||||
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 | #22738 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | exposes the harsh disparities between the masculine roles of lover, husband and father. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Snowball | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Guy Masterson Productions - TTI | |||||
| 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 | #94271 | |||
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 | |||||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of American Poodle a double bill of two short plays that look at that very special UK-US relationship. Snowball by Guy Masterson and Splayfoot by Brian parks | |||||
Synopsis: | Supported only by a couple of chairs and a table, Masterson peoples the stage for Snowball with everything from the first (Welsh) discovery of the Americas (centuries before Columbus expedition) through the Jamestown settlement, the early colonists who in 15 years used guns and smallpox to bump off 110 million indigenous Americans, to the Founding Fathers, together with a truly manic portrayal of raving farmer George (the third) and America's George (the first) - general, then president Washington. This isn't just a series of clever cameo creations; it is a high-speed history lesson which makes it points with an ease, authority, pace and timing that I haven't seen since Alan Taylor's lectures in the early days of commercial television. Bitingly accurate (allowing for a little Welsh exaggeration) and it is very, very funny. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Soldier's Song, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
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 | #22739 | |||
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Genre: | Solo Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | From Ken Lukowiak | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Under Milk Wood | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arts, London | 1997 | ||||
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 | #22740 | |||
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 | |||||
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Genre: | Solo Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Dylan Thomas Revival | |||||
Synopsis: | Revival | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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