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Roger McGough

ROGER MCGOUGH  

 Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    United Agents  


Roger McGough is one of the pre-eminent poets writing today. As one of the Liverpool poets alongside Brian Patten and Adrian Henri, he helped create the art of performance poetry and is now in huge demand for his performances, and his new collections and anthologies are eagerly awaited. He regularly writes and performs on the television and radio. He is also an accomplished playwright, with two of his adaptations of Moliere's plays published by Methuen Drama. Roger lives with his family in West London.

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

 Behind The Lines         Birds, Marriages And Deaths         Commision, The         Hypochondriac, The         Matter Of Chance, A         Misanthrope, The         Mouthtrap, The         Nothing Ventured         Sound Collector, The         Stuff         Tartuffe

Behind The Lines

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written with Brian Patten

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Birds, Marriages And Deaths

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written with The Scaffold

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Auckland    1964

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Revue Show

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Commision, The

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Liverpool    1967

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Hypochondriac, The

Hypochondriac, The
First produced in 1673 and Moliere's final play, The Hypochondriac is a scathingly funny lampoon on both hypochondria and the 'quack' medical profession. Argan is a perfectly healthy, wealthy gentleman, convinced that he is seriously ill. So obsessed is he with medicinal tinkerings and tonics that he is blind to the goings on in his own household. However, his most efficacious cure will not appear in a bottle or a bedpan, but in his sharp-tongued servant, who has a cunning plan to reveal the truth and open her master's eyes.

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Original Playwright - Moliere

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co-produced by English Touring Theatre

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Methuen Drama    978-1408123850

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Adaptation

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Matter Of Chance, A

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The Kosh

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Misanthrope, The

Misanthrope, The
Disgusted with French society where powdered fops gossip in code and bejewelled coquettes whisper behind fans, poet Alceste embarks on a one-man crusade against fakery, frippery and forked tongues. But could the woman he adores be the worst culprit of them all? And in this rarefied world will his revolution prove merely revolting? Considered by many to be Molieres best work, The Misanthrope was first performed in 1666 in Paris by the Kings Players. Following the huge successes of Tartuffe and The Hypochondriac master wordsmith Roger McGough once again dips his quill into a Moliere classic in this mockery of manners and morals set amid seventeenth-century French aristocracy and written in verse.

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Original Playwright - Moliere

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Mouthtrap, The

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written with Brian Patten

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Nothing Ventured

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exploring the fine line between laughter and sadness

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with Andy Roberts

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Sound Collector, The

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Mary and Rose live next door to each other. Mary is noisy and Rose is quiet. Strange robberies are happening in the neighbourhood.

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Stuff

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Contained in "Open Space Plays" published by Penguin, 1974   -

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Tartuffe

Tartuffe
A new sparkling and witty version by Roger McGough of Moliere's comedy published as a programme text to accompany the premiere at the Liverpool Everyman on 9 May 2008. Tartuffe is a beacon of piety and in the home of wealthy merchant Orgon he has his feet firmly under the table. But all is not as it seems and as Orgon becomes more enraptured with his new companion the whole city is chattering. Is he a friend, a fraud, a miracle or a hypocrite? The family smell a rat and amidst the frills and frivolity of seventeenth century society they hatch a cunning plan to outwit the wily deceiver before he brings their house crashing down. Moliere wrote Tartuffe in 1664 but the play was banned following its first production in Paris; it wasnt until 1669 that it was revived and became one of his greatest successes.

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Methuen Drama    978-1408109809

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Adaptation

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