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GEORGE MUNRO (1902 - 1968) |
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Nationality: Scottish Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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George Munro (1 May 1902 - 14 April, 1968), journalist and dramatist, started his career as a drama critic in Fleet Street, London, with the Allied Newspaper Group. He was also chief crime reporter and sports columnist. In 1939 he was commissioned in the R.N.V.R and served in Burma and India. Third eldest of 11 children, Munro was born in Govan. After retiring to Saltcoats, Ayrshire, Scotland he continued to write plays, as well as regular columns "Among the Sassenachs" for the Daily Herald. As a penniless young man, Munro walked from Glasgow to London determined to become a reporter. By the time he retired, he was a much respected journalist at the top of his profession, His first typewriter was a gift from John Buchan. Siblings Hugh (author), Alan (author), Sally and Jean Munro (columnists) were all bitten by the writing bug. The Munro matriarch, Margaret Robinson Munro learned to type at age 85. Her columns, "The Glasgow I Knew", appeared regularly in the Glasgow Evening News until her death at 91.
Plays by George Munro
Gay Landscape | ||
| 1st Produced: | Glasgow: Citizens Theatre, 119 Gorbals Street, Glasgow, G5 9DS >>> | 24 Feb 1958 | ||||
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 | #25192 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Directed by: Peter Duguld, | |||||
Synopsis: | Sat. Feb 22, 1958 Daily Record: "Glasgow's Citizens' Theatre company is to take place in a unique TV experiment. Their new play, "Gay Landscape", opening Monday, is to be trotted up to the Theatre Royal lock, stock and barrel, AND RELAYED IN FULL ON TELEVISION!" The article goes one to ask about the experiment: " Will it affect the box office when it knows that the play is going to be television? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gold in his Boots | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mitchell Theatre, Granville St., Glasgow | 21 Apr 1947 | ||||
Company: | 7:84 Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #82932 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Director: John McGrath. | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of the journey of a brilliant west of Scotland footballer. High drama about crooked football, inflamed religious passions, romance, murder. | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: John McGrath - Acc.11615/42 (1947) | |||||
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Mark But This Flea | ||
| 1st Produced: | (posthumously): Glasgow University | 1970 | ||||
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 | #119591 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Also: Dundee Repertory Company at the Dundee Repertory Theatre: 22 May. 1971 Director: Graham Barlow | |||||
Synopsis: | "An honest, bitterly direct, and uncompromising exposure of hypocrisy and bigotry" - Glasgow Herald, May 10, 1971 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Murder Gang | ||
| 1st Produced: | London's West End | circa 1938 | ||||
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 | #119593 | |||
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: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Later filmed as "Sensation" | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tintock Cup, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Glasgow: Citizens Theatre, 119 Gorbals Street, Glasgow, G5 9DS >>> | 06 Jan 1950 | ||||
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 | #119592 | |||
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: | Pantomime | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | GEORGE MUNRO (co-author) -. The Daily Record: "a particularly successful pantomime," - 1950 | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Vineyard Street | ||
| 1st Produced: | Glasgow Citizens' Theatre at the Royal Princess's Theatre. | 10 Oct 1949 | ||||
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 | #104649 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Produced by John Casson. Starring Jane Aird, Duncan Macrae, Edith Ruddick, Douglas Canpbell, Ethel Glendinning, James Gibson, Gudrun Ure, Stanley Baxter, John Young, Audrey. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Citizens' Theatre - Acc.4933/10 | |||||
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