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Gregory Motton (born 1961) is a British playwright, most of whose work has been done in France. ==Early career== Gregory Motton's first two plays went on in quick succession: ''Chicken'' (directed by Kate Harwood) at the Riverside Studios in April 1987, and then ''Ambulance'' (directed by Lindsay Posner) at the Royal Court in September 1987. His unconventional writing style soon dispersed the initial keen interest it had first awakened in managements and critics. His third play, ''Downfall'', again directed by Lindsay Posner at the Royal Court in July 1988, contained 56 very brief scenes, 26 characters and a fragmented illogical structure. It brought fierce condemnation from the critics,〔''London Theatre Record'' 1988, Vol VIII, issue 14〕 an empty theatre, and an end of the Royal Court's interest in Motton for several years. His fourth play, ''Looking at You (revived) Again'' commissioned originally by the National Theatre Studio, continued with the lyrical aspects of the previous plays but with a more economical technique . It followed a simple story but had a more or less non-naturalistic lyrical form. Rejected by Peter Gill, the then artistic director of the National Theatre Studio, it did not receive a rehearsed reading. It was produced by Simon Usher at the Leicester Haymarket in June 1989, during the period of David Gothard's co-artistic directorship. The play was transferred to the Bush Theatre by Jenny Killick, was unanimously disliked by the critics,〔''London Theatre Record'', 1989 Vol IX issue 13〕 and the theatre was empty once again. Consequently it was not until a further three years later that two of Motton's plays were produced, almost simultaneously: ''A Message for the Broken Hearted'', directed by Ramin Gray, March 1993, at the Liverpool Everyman; and ''The Terrible Voice of Satan'', directed by James MacDonald, July 1993, at the Royal Court, now being run by Stephen Daldry. (Motton and Gray formed the Ducks and Geese Theatre Company to bring the former play to London, at the Battersea Arts Centre. They subsequently worked together directing a number of Motton's plays in France.) Both plays met with almost universal disapproval by the critics,〔''The Independent'', 16 March 1993〕〔''London Theatre Record'' (1993) Vol XIII,issues 6 and 14〕 and Motton's brief career in Britain was effectively over. Excepting ''A Little Election Satire'' for one week at the Gate Theatre in 1997 under David Farr, it was to be another twelve years before one of his plays was produced there. His plays remained out of print in English until 1997 when James Hogan of Oberon Books began the re-publication of all his plays in several volumes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gregory Motton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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