RALPH MORSE (1955 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Ralph Morse
Four Seasons of Wounded Knee, The (featuring The Ghost Dance, Malleus Maleficarum, The Bridging Zone, and links) |
| 1st Produced: | Shenfield High School, Essex | 1996 | ||||
| Company: | Ralph and Carole Morse | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 27 | Female | 23 |
| Parts Other: | 6 m/f | |||||
| Notes: | The linked plays that comprise the Four Seasons of Wounded Knee are written to facilitate the staging ideas of a number of theatrical practitioners, and were created following dialogue with teachers and representatives of the AQA examination board. | |||||
| Synopsis: | Drawing on historical records the Ghost Dance follows the cold cynicism of the policy known as "manifest destiny" that reaches its conclusion with the destruction of an ideal at Wounded Knee. Malleus Maleficarum (co-written with Carole Morse) documents the trials that took place in East Anglia under Matthew Hopkins, self-appointed "Witchfinder General". In the Bridging Zone, a number of masked guardians under the guidance of Councilor Xantro must decide whether time travel is an ethical way to change history. Two comic guides provide short narrative links between each drama. | |||||
Roger (A Busker) |
| 1st Produced: | Blackheath Arts Festival | 1980 | ||||
| Company: | Causes Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Henry Walls for Causes Theatre Company, 1980 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | True life drama with music | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Roger (A Busker) with script and original songs by Ralph Morse was first performed by Causes Theatre Company as part of the 1979/80 schools and community season. An adaptation of the play has also presented on radio | |||||
| Synopsis: | Based on real events, Roger (A Busker) follows the title character as he solves the mystery of a missing person that has the police baffled. At the start of the play, Roger of the title is in a tube station and has just split with his long-term girlfriend. His sullen and depressed mood is soon changed by the arrival of a lovely young woman who sits at a table in the nearby café. He soon realizes that she is a famous model but is too shy to approach her. When she disappears suddenly, Roger slowly becomes involved in solving a mystery that has the police baffled. | |||||
Who Is Leonard Jones? |
| 1st Produced: | Headgate Theatre, Colchester | 2007 | ||||
| Company: | Dr Ralph Morse and Age Concern Colchester | |||||
| 1st Published: | George Abaris Internet Management, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Drama with songs | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | A one man play with original songs written in association with Age Concern, Colchester, Essex. Also available as a radio version. | |||||
| Synopsis: | The story centres on two periods in the life of the Leonard Jones of the title. The first occurs in 1997, when at the age of seventy-five he loses his wife, Maureen, following a stroke and the second in 2007 when he becomes a recording artist and minor media celebrity as a result of his efforts to prevent the closure of the local day centre. | |||||