Marty Gull (Marty[r] Gull[ible]) – surreal, satirical, tragicomic piece of musical political theatre
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My name is Chris Port. I’m a graduate from the Central School of Speech and Drama (DE99 and PGCE00). I’ve spent the last ten years teaching in UK secondary and further education.
After a decade immersed in some intense action research, I’ve now ‘come up for air’. I want to feed back on some of the ‘interesting’ politics I’ve observed and experienced at first hand. There is a lot that is wrong with our education system…
I’m writing a first draft for a musical. It’s called Marty Gull (Marty[r] Gull[ible]). It’s a surreal, satirical, tragicomic piece of musical political theatre. It’s a cautionary tale of school politics, backstabbing egos and the state of the nation.
I’ve written the first draft libretto using a medley of melodies in my head from well-known musicals.
Please see Blog #57: Marty Gull Complete Libretto
http://martygull.blogspot.com/2010/11/chris-port-blog-57-marty-gull-complete.html
Where possible, I have left clues as to the original source material. Extracts from the playscript are also included to give a flavour.
Please see Blog #61 Marty Gull Playscript Extracts
http://martygull.blogspot.com/2011/01/marty-gull-playscript-extracts.html
Intertextuality and pastiche are the key to understanding the ethos of this project.
Please see Example of interdisciplinary postmodernism and intertextuality
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B19dnXpLCCwgZWFmMGEyMWUtYTBjOC00NTY4LWIyYzMtYzUwOThkM2YyY2Fh&sort=name&layout=list&num=50
I would like to extend an open invitation to all budding musicians and composers to submit their own musical interpretations. I would also welcome interest from actors (age 20-25) who can sing and dance.
The plan is to develop a new collaborative form of musical theatre. Once we get a good working team of lyricists, composers, musicians, actors and designers together we can decide on the final evolution of the piece and arrange copyright accordingly. I would like to submit or even take the piece to Central as a work-in-progress.
From this collaboration, I would like to publish a ‘guerrilla handbook’ on How To Write A Revenge Musical containing drafts, notes, problems and suggestions for other teachers and students who may wish to try something similar.
Ultimately, I would be interested in using all of this as a springboard for a thesis on new art forms and musical theatre. But, most of all, I would love to have the opportunity of working with kind, creative and talented people.
If you like the sound of any of this, please post a comment at http://martygull.blogspot.com/
or get in touch with me through one of the following methods:
Chris Port
http://www.facebook.com/MartyGull#%21/MartyGull?sk=info
or
Marty Gull – How To Write A Revenge Musical
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/pages/Marty-Gull-How-To-Write-A-Revenge-Musical/141412095889497
or
I’ll post notes as draft stuff occurs to me (please feel free to skip the academic, intellectual stuff!)
Chris Port
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