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Murchison's Fragment: and other short plays for stage and radio
Roger Curtis
Murchison's Fragment brings together nineteen plays - mostly for stage but with three for radio - that range from a deceptively frivolous, if macabre, 10-minute monologue to an uncompromising 45-minute study of imprisonment and torture based upon a real-life situation.
Marc Notes: 'Murchison's Fragment' brings together nineteen plays - mostly for stage but with three for radio - that range from a deceptively frivolous, if macabre, 10-minute monologue to an uncompromising 45-minute study of imprisonment and torture based upon a real-life situation. Publisher Marketing: Murchison's Fragment brings together nineteen plays - mostly for stage but with three for radio - that range from a deceptively frivolous, if macabre, 10-minute monologue to an uncompromising 45-minute study of imprisonment and torture based upon a real-life situation. In between are tales of ambition, greed and human frailty, here and there touching upon horror and the supernatural. Throughout, we encounter flawed individuals getting their comeuppance or - just as likely (and unjustly) - escaping it; elsewhere, others less deserving succumb to forces beyond their control. Some of the plays are unambiguously and intentionally serious: one, for example, follows the adventures of a boy within the autistic spectrum, determined to do a good deed but failing to realise the cost of his actions; another concerns reparations to Kenyans who suffered under the colonial administration during the Mau Mau insurgency; a third offers a challenging and doubtless contentious interpretation of a New Testament episode - the resurrection of Jesus. Other plays may appear lighter, even humorous, although darker threads almost always run through them. 'Murchison's Fragment', which lends its title to the collection, is a story of lost opportunity set in London and east Africa; here the protagonist unwisely allows lust to overcome reason, with far-reaching consequences. The collection ends with a romantic love story in which a formidable barrier to a fulfilling relationship unexpectedly falls away. For each play a synopsis is provided, with additional notes where there is background interest.
| Mediji | Grāmatas Paperback Book (Grāmata ar mīksto vāku un līmēto muguru) |
| Izlaists | 2015. gada 28. maijs |
| ISBN13 | 9781784622367 |
| Izdevēji | Troubador Publishing |
| Lapas | 432 |
| Izmēri | 207 × 386 × 36 mm · 574 g |
