GREGORY MOTTON (1961 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Gregory Motton
Ambulance |
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 10 | |||
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Black Glove, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Strindberg, The Plays, Vol 2" Oberon, London | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 5 | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - August Strindberg | ||||
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Burned Site, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Strindberg, The Plays, Vol 2" Oberon, London | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 14 | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - August Strindberg | ||||
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Cat And Mouse (Sheep) |
| 1st Produced: | Odeon Theatre Paris | 1995 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1996 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 1 m/f | |||
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Synopsis: Gengis starts a price war with the shop next door and ends up running the country with his uncle and aunty. Covering the Ingratitude of the People, Life, Death, Housing and Education: Cat and Mouse (Sheep) is a satirical voyage through Great Britain. Cat and Mouse (Sheep) premiered at the Odeon Theatre Paris in 1995 "A libertarian piece of theatre, destructive, plebeian, leaving no trace after its passage except the strong weeds of its sarcasm." (L'Humanité) | ||||
Chicken |
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London | - | ||
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Child, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Plays One", Oberon Books, London | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jon Fosse (Barnet) | ||||
Synopsis: a man and a woman find each other in a bus stop on a rainy night. They hold each other close. They rent an old house out of town. The woman becomes pregnant. But the child is too small to survive. | ||||
Comrades, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | in"Strindberg, The Plays, Vol 1" Oberon, London | 1999 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - August Strindberg | ||||
Synopsis: comedy of manners portraying artists living in Paris in what they consider to be a modern 'bohemian' marriage | ||||
Creditors |
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| 1st Published: | in "Strindberg, The Plays, vol1" Oberon, London | 1999 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - August Strindberg | ||||
Synopsis: describes how a woman's ex-husband gains her new husband's confidence, only to destroy him and his faith in his wife in one afternoon | ||||
Dance Of Death, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - August Strindberg | ||||
Synopsis: about a husband and wife locked together in a relationship of fierce mutual loathing | ||||
Downfall |
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 8+ | |||
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Easter |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||
| Company: | Oxford Stage Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - August Strindberg | ||||
Synopsis: the social melodrama of the gloomy Heyst family hiding under the dark shadow of the sins of a swindling father and slowly but surely moving towards the light. | ||||
Father, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Strindberg, The Plays, Vol 1" Oberon, London | 1999 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - August Strindberg | ||||
Synopsis: an almost entirely one-sided rage against the power of women over men, and is also a plea for the feminist side of man's nature | ||||
Friends, The |
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| 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: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Gengis Amongst The Pygmies |
| 1st Produced: | La Comedie Francaise, Paris | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London | - | ||
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| Parts Other: | 9 | |||
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Synopsis: Gengis discovers he's won the competition to become leader of the nation. He'll be in charge of stocking the shelves and a marketing outreach policy statement, and great things are expected of him. He has plans to modernise the shop, increase profit and sell his people the one commodity they haven't already got: the noose. After trying in vain to reform his rude, stupid and greedy population he ends up in a trade war against the US. He goes to work undercover in a clothes factory in the Philippines, where he falls in love with his fellow worker, the minute Thumbelina. Gregory Motton's volatile satire slashes into the smooth surfaces of consumer culture. With absurdity, irony and hilarity 'Gengis Amongst the Pygmies' exposes the hypocrisy and banality of attitudes and strategies often accepted without a second thought. | ||||
Ghost Sonata |
| 1st Produced: | Queen Elizabeth Hall, London | 1989 | ||
| Company: | Opera Factory London Sinfonietta | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Strindberg, The Plays, Vol 2" Oberon, London | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - August Strindberg | ||||
Synopsis: desolate portrait of human immobility and of the sense of contemporary spiritual bankruptcy. | ||||
God's Island |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre de la Tempete, Paris | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London | - | ||
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| Genre: | Lyrical Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 10+ | |||
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Synopsis: It concerns Gods relationship with his creations, and Mans destiny. It includes episodes with God and Lucifer, Isaac and Rebecca and their sons Jacob and Esau, Jacob and the Angel, Jacob begetting his children, Gods love affair with Mary, the birth of Jesus, and the Saviours final betrayal by his idolising follower, the lonely, fearful Judas. | ||||
Good Family, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | International Playwrights: A Genesis Project | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | translation | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Joakim Pirinen | ||||
Synopsis: centres on Lasse, who is deliriously happy about his life - the weather is wonderful, and his son, daughter and wife are over the moon. They are comfortably off, sexually satisfied, liberal, liberated and pretty well perfect. Everything is wonderful and probably always will be... A flat-packed comedy from the country that brought you Ikea. | ||||
Great Highway, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Strindberg, The Plays, Vol 2" Oberon, London | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 1g doubling | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - August Strindberg | ||||
Synopsis: The Hunter, a visionary rejected by his people, revisits his life in "seven stations", before being called to account before the Tempter. | ||||
Holiday In The Sun, A |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London | - | ||
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Synopsis: After a relaxing holiday at the Forest-side Nature Hotel, shopkeeper Gengis Khan feels his personality has expanded so substantially that he decides to write a self-help manual. If only he could find a shop that will sell him a biro - . But he soon discovers that the road to publication and posterity is littered with the potholes of the modern world: Gengis narrowly avoids being replaced by a clone of himself after spending a year on a life-support machine, and is forced to fake his own death to escape life imprisonment for calling a cheerleader 'Popsickle'. He encounters an entrepreneur who seems literally to have crawled through excrement to reach the top, and fights in vain against the destruction of the rain forest to supply wood for the world's toilet seats. | ||||
In Praise Of Progress |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre de l'Odeon, Paris | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays Three", Oberon Books, London | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 18 | |||
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Lazy Brien |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Plays Two", Oberon Books, London | 1997 | ||
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Life Of St Fanny |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1990 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
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Little Satire, A |
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays Three", Oberon Books, London | 1997 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Satire | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 11 characters | |||
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Synopsis: focuses on the British general election of 1997 | ||||
Looking At You (Revived) Again |
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays Two", Oberon Books, London | 1997 | ||
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Message For The Broken Hearted |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays Two", Oberon Books, London | 1997 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Miss Julie |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
| Company: | Actors Touring Company | |||
| 1st Published: | in"Strindberg, The Plays, Vol 1" Oberon, London | 1999 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - August Strindberg | ||||
Synopsis: presents, with startling clarity, the conflict between sexual passion and social position | ||||
Monologue, A |
| 1st Produced: | Musee Dauphinois, Grenoble | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays Three", Oberon Books, London | - | ||
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Name, The |
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| 1st Published: | in "Plays One", Oberon Books, London | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jon Fosse (Namnet) | ||||
Synopsis: tells the story of an estranged family forced to live under one roof. When a pregnant girl and the father of the child have nowhere to live, they move into her parents' house. But the parents have never met the father-to-be, and don't yet know about the pregnancy. | ||||
Nightsongs |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London | 2002 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jon Fosse | ||||
Synopsis: They have a child and life changes. He can't go out and she can't stay in. He writes words which no one reads and she takes a lover. | ||||
Pelican, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1989 | ||
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