Murchison's Fragment : and other short plays for stage and radio Paperback / softback
by Roger Curtis
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:432 pages
- Publisher:Troubador Publishing
- Publication Date:28/05/2015
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- ISBN:9781784622367
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:432 pages
- Publisher:Troubador Publishing
- Publication Date:28/05/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781784622367