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JAMES MACDONALD (1949 - ) |
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Nationality: British USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Disabled from birth with cerebral palsy, I have lived in America, France and England. Author of 30-odd plays, most of the staged plays for students of Exeter University's drama department. My most frequent director has been Martin Harvey, former Associate Director of the Northcott Theatre, Exeter, now Teaching Fellow in Drama at Exeter. I am married to Russian-born Inna Rodina, naturalized British whose father fought at the Battle of Stalingrad. My plays most often concern physical and social deformity, dislocation, estrangement. Most of them now have a Russian background as well. A collection of them will soon be published by Intellect, under the title Russia, Freaks and Foreigners. The plays aspire to a comic grotesque style.
Plays by James MacDonald
Bread And Circus Freaks | ||
| 1st Produced: | 06 Mar 2002 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Intellect (Bristol) in 2008, under the title Russia, Freaks and Foreigners, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21686 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Despite the serious-sounding nature of the material, the production was comic, and the audience were laughing as though they were watching a farce by the closing week. This was very important to me as a disabled author, and I suggest the play's strength is that it enabled the audience to laugh over the subject of disability. Of course, this was largely thanks to a wonderful production. And I am certainly one playwright who can be grateful to the company of his play.They did a tremendous job for the cause of disability in this country. | |||||
Synopsis: | Five displaced persons in post-Soviet Russia congregate in a remote village bread shop and give their individual takes on what it means to be dispossessed. At the climax, a disabled girl rescues an ex-clown from being beaten as a suspected pervert. The tone throughout is comic. | |||||
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Brides, Bombs and Boardrooms | ||
| 1st Produced: | Exeter | 22 May 2009 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in Carnival Texts, Intellect Books, Bristol (2011) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #123304 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 14 | ||
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Notes: | Ensemble piece for a specific group of actors, published as part of the collection Carnival Texts. | |||||
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Caliper | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||||
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| 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 | #74883 | |||
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Genre: | Grotesque comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Destitute disabled man preys on people's sympathy for assistance until he is revealed as a con-man with thousands salted away. | |||||
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Countryside | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (2006) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840945508 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117626 | |||
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Genre: | One Act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Countryside tells the story of a handful of misfits in an abandoned village in the Russian hinterlands, asking vital questions about human worth and collective responsibility. Though its theme is urgent, its tone is mordantly comic, and it would suit general audiences and both professional and amateur companies | |||||
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Emigres | ||
| 1st Produced: | Exeter University | Jan 2005 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in Russia, Freaks and Foreigners: Three Performance Texts (Intellect Books - Play Text) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-84150-186-4 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #123302 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 10 | ||
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Notes: | Ensemble piece for a specific group of actors. | |||||
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Evenements, Les | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
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| 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 | #21687 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Fete | ||
| 1st Produced: | Exeter | 20 Mar 2010 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in Carnival Texts, Intellect Books, Bristol (2011) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #123305 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 14 | ||
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Notes: | Ensemble piece for a specific group of actors, published as part of the collection Carnival Texts. | |||||
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Most Secret Satisfaction, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Exeter University | Mar 2011 | ||||
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| 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 | #126704 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 15 | ||
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Synopsis: | an ensemble play for 15F and 5M set in Victorian Britain and concerned with enforced clitoridectomies for 'disturbed' women | |||||
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Strangers To Paradise | ||
| 1st Produced: | Exeter | 22 May 2008 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in Carnival Texts, Intellect Books, Bristol (2011) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #123303 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 14 | ||
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Notes: | Ensemble piece for a specific group of actors, published as part of the collection Carnival Texts. | |||||
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Sweetheart Zone, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 15 Jan 2007 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in Russia, Freaks and Foreigners: Three Performance Texts (Intellect Books - Play Text) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-84150-186-4 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #123301 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 18 | ||
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To Moscow | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | New Theatre Publications (2007) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1840946048 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117627 | |||
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Genre: | Full Length Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | To Moscow tells the story of three young women who come to Moscow to live and discover that the sinister influence of the family is as dangerous as anything they face in Russia`s "Wild East" capital. A bittersweet take on today`s enterprise culture with a single set. | |||||
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