Marty Gull

Marty Gull (The Gullible Martyr). Surreal, satirical, tragicomic.

Tuesday, 23 November 2010

Chris Port Blog #55: Marty Gull complete lyrics and links now posted

Marty Gull complete lyrics and links now posted
© Chris Port, 2010, martygull.co.uk.
All right reserved.

Songs
  1. The Ballad of Tippi Marsh
  2. Never Mind
  3. Foolish Teacher!
  4. The Unteachable Star
  5. Thank Music For Silly Girls!
  6. I Don't Know How To Teach Her
  7. Judy Garland
  8. Katie The Devil
  9. The Teacher's Song
  10. Well Start A Rumour
  11. You've Got To Kick A Teacher Or Two
  12. Send In The Spies
  13. How To Stifle A Writer
  14. The Old Southside
  15. There's No Business Like Big Business
  16. Over A Chip Shop
  17. Showtime For Nazis
  18. Education's Pointless
  19. The House of the Architects
  20. Hate Destroys Everything
  21. Madness
  22. Don't Lie To Me Cavatina
  23. See You Next Tuesday
  24. Chick Argot Tango
  25. Marty Gull
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Chris Port (Marty Gull)
Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom
I am a fully qualified teacher of Drama, Media and Film Studies with ten years’ work experience in secondary and further education. I graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama (one of the most respected Drama conservatoires in the world) with a first class Honours degree in Drama and Education and a PGCE. I was a writer-in-residence and workshop leader for a Southend-based youth theatre for ten years, during which time I developed my creative writing skills to include playscripts, poetry and songs. With my deep interest in Film, I have now expanded these skills to include screenplays. I now wish to take a sabbatical from teaching to focus on a proposal for a PhD thesis. This will involve developing new collaborative methodologies for intertextual musical theatre in the context of a resynthesis of art, philosophy and science. My specific areas of interest and expertise are as follows: Academic, Acting, Analysis, Assessment, Auditions, Collaboration, Creative Thinking, Directing, Drama, Education, English, Film, History, Lecturing, Literature, Media, Poetry, Philosophy, Playscripts, Screenplays, Songs, Teaching, Television, Theatre, Tutoring, Workshops, Writing.
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Welcome to my blog - Marty Gull at http://martygull.blogspot.com/

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: 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

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

Intertextuality and pastiche are the key to understanding the ethos of this project.

Please see Example of interdisciplinary postmodernism and intertextuality

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:

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I’ll post notes as draft stuff occurs to me (please feel free to skip the academic, intellectual stuff!)

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