CAMDEN MCDONALD (1959 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Camden McDonald
Everyday Life In Berlin |
| 1st Produced: | The Green Room, Manchester | 1992 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: A mythopoeic vision of Berlin centreing on four cabaret artists | ||||
Everyday Life In Hollywood |
| 1st Produced: | The Green Room, Manchester | 1989 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 |
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Synopsis: Sychophants gather at the Belaire dream-home of faded star Karina Cruikshank to play out the tragic interior of a mind utterly deranged by adulation. | ||||
Everyday Life In Paris Rome & Munich |
| 1st Produced: | The Green Room, Manchester | 1990 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: Artistic and personal angst on the set of 70's European art movie starring Karina Cruikshank | ||||
Everyday Life In The Eighties |
| 1st Produced: | The Drome, London | 1999 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: The surrealy vacuous and materialistic lives of a group of greedy, corporate high flyers. | ||||
Everyday Life In The Empire of Japan |
| 1st Produced: | The Green Room, Manchester | 1989 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: Jilted bride Lotus Blossom takes spectacular revenge on her loathsome fiance and his cohorts. | ||||
Everyday Life in the Sixties |
| 1st Produced: | The Lion & Unicorn, London | 1998 | ||
| Company: | Roar Material | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: The Sixties from the point of view of three groupies | ||||
Invasion Of The Cliches |
| 1st Produced: | The Green Room, Manchester | 1988 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: A Nightmare of Urban Angst & Surreal Humour. The lights go down and a slick, enthusiastic announcer introduces us to "The Wonderful World of Magnum", and to three ordinary clerks at work in the multi-storey office of Magnum Enterprises. They are dressed and behave like clichéd all-American guys; the type you might see in a 50's corporate propaganda film or sci-fi movie - bright and eager, gut-tuggingly content with their lot, and totally - ridiculously - committed to their way of life: one dominated by corporate ideology. We find out a little about each of them - Al, young, spunky and newlywed; Barney, a dry jestful bachelor; Chuck, solid & regular family man. Most of their enthusiasm, however, is directed at their mind-numbing bureaucratic tasks. They climax with a song and dance routine about the nature of individuality. The lights fade again and the announcer introduces a flashback - what we have seen is the happy and contented Al, Barney & Chuck, but now we are shown the way they were before the cataclysmic event that transformed them - before the arrival of AN ASTEROID FROM OUTER SPACE!! The lights come up on a slightly different scene. The three have become Alec, Bernard and Charles. They are bored and listless - gone are the bright eyes, American accents and moronic grins - they are dull office drones, company conformists, dressed in grey. As they listen to reports on the radio of a meteorite impact on the outskirts of the city each of them is drawn inexorably into his own worst nightmare - Part One climaxes with an intrusion by the extra-terrestrial visitor Phoebe Zeitgeist and another song and dance routine. Part Two is the mirror of Part One - the same structure the same overall pattern of events, but the central characters are three downtrodden women from the Repro Department. They are replaced by aliens who have been taught how to behave like "real women" through TV ads. The climax of the piece brings all of the characters together for the appearance of Phoebe Zeitgeist and a grand musical finale - Somewhere Over the Rainbow. | ||||
XP |
| 1st Produced: | The First Church of Christ Performance Artist, 491 Gallery, London & Liverpool Biennial Festival | 2004 | ||
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Notes: written by Camden McDonald, Viv Galvagna and Ruth Robinson | ||||
Synopsis: A radical reassessment of the life of Christ and satire on current events. | ||||