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MICHAEL BARRY - theatre scripts at 2010: Full-length: - Burning Passions (orig: Dead
Woman's Ditch) - original
full-length story of an famous and tragic - Love Letters - immensely successful adaptation of Thomas Hardy's "On the Western Circuit". Cast of 4, 1 composite set. Now full-length as sole play but originally toured in shorter version by WAC Spring 1999, in tandem with…. (Published by New Theatre Publications) - Passion and the Revolutionary - a half-hour adaptation of Hardy's "A Committee-Man of the Terror", features Hardy himself as Conductor of events. Cast of 3, 1 set. (Published by New Theatre Publications) - Tom Jones -
epic and raunchy adaptation of Fielding's racy - The Balance of Mind
– a - The Warden - simple low-cost adaptation of Anthony Trollope's opening story in the Barchester Chronicles. Tried and tested. Cast of 3, simple setting, narrated links. (Published by New Theatre Publications) - The Indiscretion of an Heiress - simple low-cost adaptation of Hardy short-story of tragic young love. Tried and tested. Cast of 2 in simple setting, narrated links. (Published by New Theatre Publications) - Tess of the D'Urbervilles - edited for production version of Thomas Hardy's own second adaptation of his famous novel. M Barry sole director of this play since Hardy's 1928 death (twice). Cast of 7, 4 sets (can be simple). (Published by New Theatre Publications – MB as Editor) - The - Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare) and The Atheist's Tragedy (Tourneur) - two one-hour adaptations of these famously gory revenge tragedies. Not produced. - A Question of Balance - play examining three-way relationship and the imperatives that make it viable. Has four endings (one can be selected by author or by audience). Not produced. - Bella-Vista - based on a short story of Colette's, one written of three comprising 3-play evening in the theatre. Each one shows Colette at a different stage of her life - transmuting her direct experiences into short stories - whether as a budding 15 year-old, already attracting the attentions of men, or in her early 30s as a performer in the Paris music-hall and variety theatre, or, as in Bella-Vista, escaping to Provence to recover from love and blundering into the oddest "domestic" detective story ever. Not produced. (Copyright issues mean this is probably not available commercially) One-act plays (self-standing): - Passion and the Revolutionary – see above - A Love Beyond Time - a one-act play inspired by John Wyndham's short story of a time travel romance. Small cast, single set. (Original Edinburgh University production 1963, winner of Scotsman Student Play Award). Compilations: - O McGonagall - humourous small-scale touring
production showing life of - A Woman for All Seasons - compilation for small group of women of famous scenes from classical drama, linked by narrative. Amateur production 1989. (Copyright issues mean this is not available commercially) - From Ten to Twenty
- compilation for group of
teenagers of famous scenes from classical drama, linked by narrative.
- Christmas Through the Ages - a pot-pourri of Christmas readings from mediaeval times to modern days, and embracing the secular as well as the religious. (Copyright issues mean this is not available commercially) |