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LEONARD MORLEY (1938 - ) |
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Nationality: English Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Semi-pro writer since 1952, selling humorous poems and articles at age 14. Free-lance journalist for two years until near-starvation. Began writing for the stage in the 1970's with pantomimes, one-act plays, murder mysteries and other comedy scripts. Also a series of training video's for builders. Plays performed world-wide, in both amateur and professional productions. Now (2009) semi-retired though still writing, and still active in amateur theatre. Founded Outcasts Theatre Group, also Outcast Productions, publishing arm.
Plays by Leonard Morley
Back-Stage Girl | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Outcast Productions (2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96008 | |||
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Genre: | Poems and Lyrics for performance. | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A collection of humorous poems, lyrics etc for performance, most of them on aspects of theatre. Titles include "It Should Have Been Me!", "Panto Villain", "Festival Results", "Prima Donna" etc. | |||||
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Bad Reception | ||
| 1st Produced: | Olympus Theatre, Bristol | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Outcasts Theatre Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Outcast Productions (2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96006 | |||
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: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A Hall, with three trestle tables. | |||||
Synopsis: | Alex and Vicky, divorced for a while, are left to clear up the mess after the wedding reception of their daughter and new son-in-law, married in what was the Wedding from Hell. The tension is thick and tempers flare, but slowly. . . gradually. . . they approach a new rapport. | |||||
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Easy | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Outcast Productions (2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96007 | |||
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: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | Off-stage cheering. | |||||
Notes: | A pub. | |||||
Synopsis: | Craig has reluctantly been dragged out on his stag-night by best man Nigel, who is insistent on cheering him up. And when Maxine and Sandra walk in, Nigel does his best to pull both of them. But who will go home with who, if at all? | |||||
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Flat Bust | ||
| 1st Produced: | Redgrave Theatre, Bristol | 1998 | ||||
Company: | Outcasts Theatre Group | |||||
| 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 | #96003 | |||
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: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A living room. | |||||
Synopsis: | Failed rock-star Joe is on the skids. Will the lovely Lizzy leave him to concentrate on a singing career? Or stay and save him? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Harpy And the Slob, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Winterbourne Community Theatre | 1986 | ||||
Company: | Winterbourne Community Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Playwrights' Network | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #50989 | |||
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: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A bedroom. Performed on HTV September 1987. | |||||
Synopsis: | Maggy has taken refuge from the raucous party downstairs, when she is joined by Richard. With Maggy sharp and brittle, and Richard highly nervous, the meeting is by turns awkward, friendly and hostile, but ends with both being tentatively pleased with the dawning of a new relationship. | |||||
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Hell And Damnation | ||
| 1st Produced: | Winterbourne Community Theatre | - - - | ||||
Company: | Winterbourne Community Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Playwrights' network (2008) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #50991 | |||
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: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | Voices on inter-com | |||||
Notes: | Lord Charles' study in his stately home. | |||||
Synopsis: | A sequel to Hell and Highwater. Times are desperate at Summerville House, what with rising costs for the safari park, and weak spots in the lions' enclosure. And now the intrusion of an evil taxman sets off a chain of events that threaten the whole family with prison. Once again, the situation is saved by the incomparable butler, Beacham. | |||||
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Hell And High Water | ||
| 1st Produced: | Winterbourne Community Theatre | 1984 | ||||
Company: | Winterbourne Community Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #50990 | |||
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: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Dining room of a stately home. | |||||
Synopsis: | It's dinner at Summerville House. No Summerville has ever missed dinner in seventeen generations, and Lord Charles is determined that a simple burst water-pipe will not prevail now. As the water-level rises, the family remain stoic, except for a visiting lounge lizard. As they are all marooned on the table and panic rises, the day is saved by Beacham, Lord Charles' indomitable butler. | |||||
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Looking For Rosy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Winterbourne Community Theatre | 1980 | ||||
Company: | Winterbourne Community Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #50992 | |||
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: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Living-room set | |||||
Synopsis: | Just a quiet evening in. . . Fred is forging fivers, and Brenda's feeling amorous. But their peace is shattered by the arrival of two rent officers, puzzled by Brenda's application for a rent increase. On top of that, Gran is stuck in the loo, and Rosy has gone missing. But who is Rosy? | |||||
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Montezuma's Revenge | ||
| 1st Produced: | Winterbourne Community Theatre | 1993 | ||||
Company: | Winterbourne Community Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Outcast Productions (1993) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96001 | |||
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: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Hotel Room | |||||
Synopsis: | Kevin and Sandra, on a cheap package holiday in the banana republic of Boliguay, find themselves caught up in this week's revolution. Held at gun-point by both the forces of El Supremo and the resistance, their problems are further compounded by the results of last night's meal - boiled armadillo brains. | |||||
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Moving Day | ||
| 1st Produced: | Winterbourne Community Theatre | 1988 | ||||
Company: | Winterbourne Community Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Outcast Productions (1988) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96000 | |||
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: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Bare stage. | |||||
Synopsis: | Audrey and Russell are moving out of their flat, and meet the incoming tenants. But will Russell's prejudices stand the strain, when he is confronted by Dolly and Floyd? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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On the Outside | ||
| 1st Produced: | Q.E.H. Theatre, Bristol | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Outcasts Theatre Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Outcast Productions (2000) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96005 | |||
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: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Park bench. | |||||
Synopsis: | It's no fun for disgraced solictor Denzil, waking up on a park bench after his first night living on the outside. And then he meets bag-lady Kate, resplendent in her old muddy wedding-dress, with her life's possessions in a shopping trolley, and her imaginary dog Smudge. At first he almost has to fight for possession of the bench, but then she begins to teach him the awful realities of his new life. And a rapport begins to develop. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Quiet Night In, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Redgrave Theatre, Bristol | 1997 | ||||
Company: | Outcasts Theatre Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Outcast Productions (1997) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96002 | |||
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: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A living room. | |||||
Synopsis: | Sandra has something on her mind, and is desperate to talk about it. . .. But Gordon doesn't want to listen, forcing her to extreme lengths. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sit Vac | ||
| 1st Produced: | Winterbourne Community Theatre | 1993 | ||||
Company: | Winterbourne Community Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Playwrights' Network (2008) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #50993 | |||
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: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | An office. Performed on HTV 1993. | |||||
Synopsis: | A sequel to the Harpy and the Slob. Both Maggy and Richard are convinced that the other has stood them up. And when Richard turns up for a job interview to find that Maggy is conducting it, the sparks fly. Maggy refuses to carry it through, so Richard begins a sit-in on the filing cabinet. When the evil Sir Kenneth demands the vacancy is filled immediately, Maggy offers Richard the job. But Richard now has other ideas. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Suitor, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Winterbourne Community Theatre | 1982 | ||||
Company: | Winterbourne Community Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #50994 | |||
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: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Living room set | |||||
Synopsis: | Boredom reigns supreme at the Mason's house. Arnie is trying telepathy on the rubber-plant, while Joan talks to the budgie, and teenager Daisy is in her bedroom, painting faces on herself. Then Clive arrives, and everything changes. . . for a while. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Swansong | ||
| 1st Produced: | Winterbourne Community Theatre | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Winterbourne Community Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Outcast Productions (2000) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96004 | |||
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: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Bare Stage | |||||
Synopsis: | A meeting of the Play Selection Committee of Risselton Amateur Theatre Society (R.A.T.S.) The choice is between two rival playwrights - both daggers drawn. Alex's play is intense, emotional and meaningful. But Dennis goes for shallow theatre for shallow people. And announces his scandalous thoughts on adjudicators. | |||||
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Uncle Jasper | ||
| 1st Produced: | Winterbourne Community Theatre | 1982 | ||||
Company: | Winterbourne Community Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Playwrights' Network | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #50995 | |||
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: | Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | An office. | |||||
Synopsis: | Today the most important contract for years is to be signed by Sir Jasper. Last seen in a strip club, he has gone missing. Nephew Simon battles to save the firm's bacon, grappling with randy plumbers, drunken strippers, and rats as big as dogs, in a classic one-act farce of double identities, female impersonations and ever-rising panic. | |||||
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