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Chris Port Blog #4: Marty Gull - Status Update and Complete Lyrics - Link to CSSD.

Marty Gull - Status Update and Complete Lyrics

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Marty Gull - How To Write A Revenge Musical

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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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