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MALCOLM MCKAY |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Berlin Associates |
Malcolm McKay is a writer and director for theatre, film and television. As a writer, his theatre plays include: The People's Temple (Viterbo Festival, Italy); Pistols (Hackney Empire) and Airbase (Arts Theatre); his television scripts include: NCS Manhunt, Gormenghast (adaptation), the award-winning A Wanted Man trilogy and the contraversial Airbase; TV films as writer and director include: Redemption, Cruel Train and Maria's Child (all BBC). He has written three novel, The Lack Brothers, Breaking Up and Thistown.
Plays by Malcolm McKay
Airbase | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||||
Company: | Oxford Playhouse | |||||
| 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 | #23406 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 7 characters played by cast of 6 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Set on a mythical airbase in England the play is a satire on the sexual behaviour, paranoia, fear and aggression of a fictional squad of F111 fliers as they prepare for nuclear combat with the old Soviet empire. Madeleine a new lieutenant arrives and is shocked to see that the squad not only take drugs but seem unable to exist without them. They buy them from the British dealer on the base, and inject them according to their needs: the blue is called 'Airforce', and gets them through the day; the pink is 'marshmallow, and gives them the warmth and comfort for leisure and sex, and the white is 'cloud' for the hard violence needed for combat readiness. As the story unfolds a flier goes 'rogue', and sets off a nuclear alert. The rest of the squad fly out to track him down, leaving Madeleine on the base to face the end with the dealer and those too mad to fly. | |||||
Further Reference: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Acc.9285/62 | |||||
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Chaste Maid In Cheapside, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
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 | #50303 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 27 Characters played by cast of about 16 | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Thomas Middleton | |||||
Synopsis: | A comedy set on the wide street of Cheapside, London in Lent in the early 1600's it has often been described as one of the funniest satirical city plays, with its rambunctious and wild cast of Lord, Ladies, villains, cheats and whores. The play interweaves a series of plots and extraordinary set pieces to mercilessly mock the inability of learning or religion to overcome the old appeal of sex and money | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Forgotten Voices | ||
| 1st Produced: | Imperial War Museum, London | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58205 | |||
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Genre: | testimony play Historical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | stage version of Max Arthur's best-selling book, Forgotten Voices of the Great War, based on oral testimony of veterans of the First World War. McKay has distilled these extraordinary and powerful witness statements into monologues by six characters (five men and one woman) who movingly reveal their memories of the war that claimed more lives than any other in history. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Harry Mixture | ||
| 1st Produced: | Warehouse, Covent Garden, London | 26 Jun 1978 | ||||
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 | #23407 | |||
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Genre: | play reading | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by John hale and Malcolm McKay | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | RSC ref HAY197806 | |||||
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People's Temple, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Viterbo Festival, Italy | - - - | ||||
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 | #50302 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | cast of 16 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In the summer months of 1977, the People's Temple Sect, led by Pastor Jim Jones, left Northern California for the South American Jungle. Jones had promised them a paradise in Guyana. On November 18th, 1978, after an unofficial visit by a US Congressman, Jones told them that the CIA were about to destroy their new world. The sect members murdered 276 children by injecting them with cyanide. Some adults were shot by guards as they tried to escape. The majority committed what Jones called 'Revolutionary Suicide'. In all 913 men, women and children died. Jones was shot. The play is the story of the PEOPLE'S TEMPLE cult from its beginnings in San Francisco to its extraordinary death in Guyana. It explores the character of Jim Jones, a charismatic, drug addicted, bisexual, half Welsh, Cherokee Indian, and shows how a circle of white lieutenants, sexually, intellectually and politically in thrall to him, slowly exploited and broke down the collective will of a thousand predominantly black men and women to the point where they gladly gave their lives for their pastor. The whole of the final suicide, the screams of the dying children, the commands for the adults to stay in line, was tape-recorded to a backing of soul music played at half speed. Jones promised heaven, he died with his followers in what sounded like a hell on earth. | |||||
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Pistols | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
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 | #50304 | |||
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 | - | ||
Parts other: | cast of 9 | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The Sex Pistols meet in a San Francisco hotel room to rehearse for their last ever gig at Winterland. As they go through their set, including, God Save the Queen, Anarchy in the UK and Sid Vicious' My Way, the band slowly fall apart. An American radio reporter tries to interview them as Sid and Nancy pursue their heroin dealer, Malcolm MacLaren philosophises over punk and fights with Johnny Rotten, who spits back his own brand of contempt at band members, radio reporters and audience alike. It all ends in disaster. MacLaren walks out, Paul and Steve skulk away and Sid kills Nancy then dies of an overdose. Leaving only Johnny and a plea for a final cleansing through blasphemy. The Pistols, never forgotten. | |||||
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