GREGORY MOTTON   (1961 - )


Gregory Motton
   Nationality:
British
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Plays by Gregory Motton

GREGORY MOTTON
Ambulance
1st Produced:
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
Oberon Books, London
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
10
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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GREGORY MOTTON
Black Glove, The
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
-
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
Synopsis:
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GREGORY MOTTON
Burned Site, The
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Strindberg, The Plays, Vol 2" Oberon, London
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Genre:
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Translation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
14
Notes: Original Playwright - August Strindberg
Synopsis:
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GREGORY MOTTON
Cat And Mouse (Sheep)
1st Produced:
Odeon Theatre Paris
1995
Company:
-
1st Published:
1996
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
1 m/f
Notes: -
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)
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GREGORY MOTTON
Chicken
1st Produced:
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
Oberon Books, London
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Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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GREGORY MOTTON
Child, The
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays One", Oberon Books, London
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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.
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GREGORY MOTTON
Comrades, The
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in"Strindberg, The Plays, Vol 1" Oberon, London
1999
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Genre:
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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
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GREGORY MOTTON
Creditors
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Strindberg, The Plays, vol1" Oberon, London
1999
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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
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GREGORY MOTTON
Dance Of Death, The
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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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
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GREGORY MOTTON
Downfall
1st Produced:
1988
Company:
-
1st Published:
Oberon Books, London
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
8+
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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GREGORY MOTTON
Easter
1st Produced:
2005
Company:
Oxford Stage Company
1st Published:
Oberon Books, London
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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.
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GREGORY MOTTON
Father, The
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Strindberg, The Plays, Vol 1" Oberon, London
1999
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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
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GREGORY MOTTON
Friends, The
1st Produced:
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Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
-
Translation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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GREGORY MOTTON
Gengis Amongst The Pygmies
1st Produced:
La Comedie Francaise, Paris
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Company:
-
1st Published:
Oberon Books, London
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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.
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GREGORY MOTTON
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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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.
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GREGORY MOTTON
God's Island
1st Produced:
Theatre de la Tempete, Paris
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Company:
-
1st Published:
Oberon Books, London
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Genre:
Lyrical Comedy
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
10+
Notes: -
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.
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GREGORY MOTTON
Good Family, The
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
International Playwrights: A Genesis Project
1st Published:
-
-
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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.
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GREGORY MOTTON
Great Highway, The
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
-
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.
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GREGORY MOTTON
Holiday In The Sun, A
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
-
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.
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GREGORY MOTTON
In Praise Of Progress
1st Produced:
Theatre de l'Odeon, Paris
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Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays Three", Oberon Books, London
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-
Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
18
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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GREGORY MOTTON
Lazy Brien
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays Two", Oberon Books, London
1997
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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GREGORY MOTTON
Life Of St Fanny
1st Produced:
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1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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GREGORY MOTTON
Little Satire, A
1st Produced:
1997
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays Three", Oberon Books, London
1997
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Genre:
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Satire
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
11 characters
Notes: -
Synopsis: focuses on the British general election of 1997
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GREGORY MOTTON
Looking At You (Revived) Again
1st Produced:
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays Two", Oberon Books, London
1997
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-
Parts:
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Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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GREGORY MOTTON
Message For The Broken Hearted
1st Produced:
1993
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays Two", Oberon Books, London
1997
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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GREGORY MOTTON
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:
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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
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GREGORY MOTTON
Monologue, A
1st Produced:
Musee Dauphinois, Grenoble
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Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays Three", Oberon Books, London
-
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Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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GREGORY MOTTON
Name, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays One", Oberon Books, London
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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.
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GREGORY MOTTON
Nightsongs
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
Oberon Books, London
2002
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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.
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GREGORY MOTTON
Pelican, The
1st Produced:
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1989
Company: