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Maureen Duffy

MAUREEN DUFFY

  (1933 - )
Nationality:    British
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Playwright, poet, novelist, biographer, Maureen Duffy burst onto the British theatre scene with her National Theatre debut in 1968, Rites. Duffys work since includes the hugely influential The Microcosm, and the Londoners trilogy has enshrined her as one of our most important contemporary writers.

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below is a list of Maureen Duffy's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Hilda and Virginia         Lay-Off, The         Masque Of Henry Purcell,the         Nightingale In Bloomsbury Square, A         Olde Tyme         Rites         Silk Room, The         Solo
Hilda and Virginia

Hilda and Virginia
Maureen Duffy's double-bill tells the story of two remarkable women. The Choice is the story of a very unsaintly saint. Hilda of Whitby, who brought Christianity to the Anglo-Saxons, was a businesswoman, teacher and adviser to kings. In A Nightingale in Bloomsbury Square, Virginia Woolf looks back on her life, uncovering the hidden stories behind her iconic novels. From the torture of depression to the scandal of her lesbian affairs, Virginia goes down fighting. As the saying goes: well-behaved women don't make history. . .

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2 one acts

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Lay-Off, The

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London     1962

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Masque Of Henry Purcell,the

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Southwark Playhouse, London     1995

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Nightingale In Bloomsbury Square, A

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a play about Virginia Woolf

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London     1973

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in "Factions", Joseph, London, 1974   

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Olde Tyme

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a play based on Greek myths

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Cambridge     1970

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Rites

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Set in a ladies public lavatory and loosely based on euripide's the Bacchae it culminates in the murder of a transvestite lesbian.

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National Theatre Workshop Season in collaboration with the Central School of Art & Design

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Jeannetta Cochrane Theatre, London     01 Feb 1969

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in "New Short Plays 2", Methuen, London, 1969   

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one act play

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Silk Room, The

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Solo

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a play based on Greek myths

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Cambridge     1970

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