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MICHELLE READ |
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Plays by Michelle Read |
Lost Letters of a Victorian Lady, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Read Company, Dublin | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Seen and Heard: Six New Plays by Irish Women, ed Cathy Leeney, Carysfort Press, Dublin, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #29041 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Edith Lampton, the Victorian lady of the title, is an extremely naive, guileless character who, through no choice of her own, becomes embroiled in an international drug smuggling cartel, headed by the notorious Vicar of Marmsey. Brought up in the Victorian ideal of womanhood, Edith is ill-prepared for the bizarre adventure she is drawn into, inhabited by such strange characters as Maverick, the cowboy with the heart of gold and Master Kelly, the Irish intellectual and rebel sympathiser with a penchant for a good sing song. | |||||
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Other Side, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | The Read Company, Dublin | |||||
| 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 | #29042 | |||
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 | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Two women are held prisoner in an unidentified country, for unstated reasons. Both the characters and half the audience are sparated by a dividing wall. Dervla, an Irish woman, is searching for her identical twin sister who went missing when she was eight; Kate, an English photographer, has no memory of life before she arrived at her adopted parents' house at about he same age. As the days progress the two women learn more about each other, and begin to wonder if they have more in common than they thought. | |||||
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Romantic Friction | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Read Company, Dublin | 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 | #29043 | |||
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 One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | inspiration to write a 'proper' novel but instead she's hardly off the boat before she's met a man, fallen in love and been jilted. The play is set one night, three weeks later, when Anna wakes up in a drunken stupor to find two of the characters from her latest 'bodice ripper' large as life in her living room. The ensuing discussion with the chirpy, cockney maid servant Minnie Crabtree and the dashingly, heroic Lord Beaston, helps Anna to get her life, not to mention her plotlines, back into shape. | |||||
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