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Big Theatre in Small Spaces

Big Theatre in Small Spaces


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A collection of three plays for adults by award-winning playwright Brendan Murray, that have proved a hit with theatres in the UK and abroad. This book is ideal for schools, colleges and drama students. A collection of three plays for adults which showcase Murray's most successful recent work and productions. The Plays The Falling Sky: Cast 5 (2m/3w); 90 minutes. Drama about priorities and choices told through the lives of five inhabitants of a rural community over the course of one fateful year. Commissioned and produced by Oxfordshire Theatre Company 2007. The audio version of New Perspectives Theatre Company 2010, Starring Stephanie Cole. Entertaining Angels: Cast 5 (3m/2w);110 minutes. A story of a rural parish in decline, a priest facing both a crisis of faith and the collapse of his marriage and the strange figure who arrives in the village one day, seemingly with an answer to everyone's prayers. Commissioned and produced by New Perspectives Theatre Company, 2013. www.newperspectives.co.uk Missing in Action: Cast 5 (3m/2w);110 minutes. The story of two mates who join the army; how one dies and the other survives to battle with post-traumatic stress - and the impact these outcomes have on their families. Commissioned and produced by Proteus Theatre Company 2012. www.proteustheatre.com

Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION 7 THE PLAYS: THE FALLING SKY 13 MISSING IN ACTION 83 ENTERTAINING ANGELS 157

About the Author :
The youngest of five children, Brendan grew up in Salford, Lancashire before training as an actor and working for ten years in TIE, fringe, Rep and commercial theatre. From 1982 to 1985 he was Head of Education at the Belgrade Theatre Coventry and in 1989/90, writer-in-residence at the Crucible Theatre Sheffield – where his playwriting career really began. Since then he has divided his time between writing, directing and teaching, principally at Drama Studio London. In 2002/3 he was the Visiting Gulbenkian Fellow in the Department of Palliative Care & Policy at King’s College Hospital and, from 2003 to 2008, Artistic Director of Oxfordshire (Touring) Theatre Company. He’s written for many of the leading small scale and young people’s theatre companies in the UK as well as well as the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff and the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. His plays – of which there are over thirty for people of all ages – have been produced throughout the UK and abroad. How high is Up? has had over twenty productions worldwide and been translated into German, Welsh, Spanish and Serbian! Big Baby was shortlisted for the John Whiting Award in 2000; Eliza’s House (published by Samuel French) won the Arts Council Children’s Award (now known as the Theatre Centre Brian Way Award) in 2001, and Scarlet Ribbons won The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Award (for which he has been shortlisted on several occasions) in 2009. Like the good northerner he is, he lives in Brighton and you can find out more about him at www.brendanmurray.co.uk

Review :
“Tender and ultimately shocking, the conflicts are subtle and the characters, never mere mouthpieces, all have the ring of truth about them.” The Stage “A play that captures the essence of rural life as it is lived today. These country folk are a million times away from the stereotypes used in The Archers, and the story is anything but everyday.” Oxford Times


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  • ISBN-13: 9781906582180
  • Publisher: Aurora Metro Publications
  • Publisher Imprint: Aurora Metro Books
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1906582181
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 240


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