Gregory Motton

Ei kvinne besøker ein mann i huset hans. Han er eldre og sjuk, ho litt yngre. I løpet av stykket blir kjærleiksforholdet som har vore mellom dei to bretta ut. Det tok slutt for lenge sidan, men er der mellom dei enno. Begge skuldar den andre for å ha svikta kjærleiken, og tilskodaren følgjer møtet mellom dei som ein maktkamp om kven som har elska mest.

‘The Ice-Floe Girl’ is a delightful, beautifully-written and wonderfully observed true story about a nineteen-year-old boy who meets an innocent, angelic Swedish au pair and then hitch-hikes across Europe to join her in Sweden, where she lives at the top of a forbidding villa. She proceeds to take him along with her as an unwitting spectator to her mysterious life in Copenhagen, Stockholm and Helsinki. If good writing is about capturing an inexpressible paradox in words - here it is. This account of an ephemeral beauty presents in precise photographic details a remarkable true tale of people and places, retrieves eternall meaningful passing moments that would otherwise have been lost forever and fixes them to the banner of eternal love. The Ice-Floe Girl is an unforgettable, enigmatic quest stretching from a north London suburb to a small wooden town on the shores of the Baltic.

A cottage by the sea. Two old lovers re-unite for a weekend after 30 years. He has an appointment with death, and she has left her husband upstairs. Both think the other has betrayed their love. They fight it out as a storm grows out at sea. Gregory Motton's previous plays include: "Gengis Amongst The Pygmies" (La Comedie Francaise, paris), "Gods Island" (Theatre De La Tempete, Paris), "In Praise Of Progress" (Theatre de l'odeon, Paris), "A Monologue" (Musee Dauphinois, Grenoble), "A Little Satire" (Gate), "Cat And Mouse" (theatre de l'odeon, paris/gate) and "The Terrible Voice of Satan" (Royal Court). "The Biggest Diamond in the World" opens at the Royal Court Theatre, London in October 2005.

After a relaxing holiday at the Forest-side Nature Hotel, shopkeeper Gengis Kahn feels his personality has expanded so substantially that he decides to write a self-help manual. If only he could find a shop that will sell him a biro... But he soon discovers that the road to publication and posterity is littered with the potholes of the modern world. Gengis narrowly avoids being replaced by a clone of himself after spending a year on a life support machine, and is forced to fake his own death to escape life imprisonment for calling a cheerleader 'Popsickle'. He encounters an entrepreneur who seems literally to have crawled through excrement to reach the top, and fights in vain against the destruction of the rain forest to supply wood for the world's toilet seats. This hilarious final part of Gregory Motton's comic trilogy mixes swoops of imaginative absurdity with acutely observed set pieces from everyday life, firing satirical arrows at the overweight targets of consumerism, mediocrity and greed.

Gengis discovers he's won the competition to become leader of the nation. He'll be in charge of stocking the shelves and a marketing outreach policy statement, and great things are expected of him. He has plans to modernise the shop, increase profit and sell his people the one commodity they haven't already got: the noose. But along the way he will encounter the complaints of the populace, attempt to abolish jargon, dispense with the luxury of health-care and fight a trade war with America, who threaten to stop buying his Sherlock Holmes hats. Gregory Motton's volatile satire slashes into the smooth surfaces of consumer culture. With absurdity, irony and hilarity Gengis Among the Pygmies exposes the hypocrisy and banality of attitudes and strategies often accepted without a second thought.

Gregory Motton's latest play, and his fourth to be premiered in France, is a lyrical comedy. It concerns God's relationship with his creations, and Man's destiny. It includes episodes with God and Lucifer, Isaac and Rebecca and their sons Jacob and Esau, Jacob and the Angel, Jacob begetting his children, God's love affair with Mary, the birth of Jesus, and the Saviour's final betrayal by his idolising follower, the lonely, fearful Judas.

Cat and Mouse (Sheep) was premiered at Theatre de l'Odeon, Paris. In Praise of Progress was commissioned by BBC Radio 3. A Little Satire focuses on the general election of 1997, and was commissioned for The Gate Theatre's History of European Satire season.

_x000D_ Includes the plays Looking at You (Revived) Again, A Message for the Broken Hearted, The Terrible Voice of Satan

A collection of two original plays by the innovative Gregory Motton. Both plays premiered at the Royal Court Theatre under the direction of Lindsay Posner.

Two plays by contemporary dramatists Gregory Motton and Elfriede Jelinek Cat and Mouse (Sheep) by Gregory Motton: Gengis starts a price war with the shop next door and ends up running the country with his uncle and aunty. Covering the Ingratitude of the People, Life, Death, Housing and Education: Cat and Mouse (Sheep) is a satirical voyage through Great Britain. Cat and Mouse (Sheep) premiered at the Odeon Theatre Paris in 1995 "A libertarian piece of theatre, destructive, plebeian, leaving no trace after its passage except the strong weeds of its sarcasm." (L'Humanite) Services by Elfriede Jelinek; two married women deeply weary of the sterility of their sexual existences, arrange a secret liaison with two men code-named Moose and Bear who offer raw animal sex in a dingy motorway service station. Constructed along the lines of Cosi Fan Tutte, Services is a cruel and pornographic comedy premiered in Vienna in 1995 and selected as "Best Production of the Year" by Theater Heute.

Four short plays for young actors Making Scenes 1 is an exciting selection of plays commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for the BT National Connections festival for young actors in 1995. Each play includes Production Notes, dealing with setting and staging, costume, lighting and casting. Also included are a set of questions and exercises for workshop classes.