Michael Yates

• Sep-1993
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• Jul-2011
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In this play, young Branwell Bronte, who once ruled an imaginary world, is now a man, grown mad trying to cope with the real one. Having failed as a poet and painter, as doomed in love as he is in literature, he slips ever more quickly down the road ...

• Feb-2013
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Three one-act plays by Michael Yates. LIFE SENTENCE: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned - especially when she has a meat cleaver in her hand A dark comedy about the violent games lovers play. Winner of the Stanley Arnold Trophy at Sheffield One-...

• Sep-2013
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In these six exciting stories, Branwell, the Bronte boy who ruled an imaginary childhood world, has failed as poet and painter and slips down the road of drink and despair; passionate Alice, searching for a man she can love as she once loved her fath...

• Jan-2014
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Three one-act plays by Michael Yates. A REAL CUSHY NUMBER: It's the night shift at a major hospital and the porters sip their hot tea and talk about life as they wait for a patient to die. ALL GOOD MEN: Party conference time - and the sudden death of...

• Oct-2015
• / Mystery
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It's the start of the 21st century. And a single bullet will change two lives. Raymond is a shy young man with two A levels. He wishes he'd gone to Uni. But his father wants him to take over the family business. And his father is a gangster and a kil...

• Oct-2015
• / Mystery
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It's the start of the 21st century. And a single bullet will change two lives. Raymond is a shy young man. He wishes he'd gone to Uni. But his father wants him in the family business. And his father is a gangster and a killer. Barry wants to be a poe...

• Jun-2016
• / Mystery
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The Gangers: High Noon in Yorkshire The avenger rides into town looking for the men who killed his friend. In his saddlebag, he carries a Colt 44. But this is no wild west scenario. This is Yorkshire. The avenger is Sergeant Lorenzo Joseph of the Bri...

• Jul-2016
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With the Medieval Mystery Plays, religious drama left the churches and took to the streets, involving whole communities. But when playwright Michael Yates decided to write a modern version, he knew he could never compete with CGI - no massive crowds,...

• Aug-2016
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Remember when typewriters ruled the world? It's the age of Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first woman prime minister. But the best chance most women have to get close to power - or even close to a job - is to join a Government-sponsored training course...

• Feb-2018
• / Fantasy
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A dead author dictates his novel to a friend. A loser in love tries plastic surgery. A boy comes home early to discover his father’s infidelity.

A born-again Christian takes a lesson from Chairman Mao. A drug addict’s dead parents come t...

• Jun-2019
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Alice searches passionately for a man to love as fiercely as she once loved her father. But, with a history of violent relationships, she seems destined to fail. Meanwhile her daughter Maudie fights for a life of her own but cannot escape the mother ...

• Mar-2022
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Dying is the Last Thing You Ever Want to Do Seventeen-year-old Josie is a miner's daughter, a good Catholic girl and brilliant at school. She might even get to University because her Aunt May has come into some insurance money. But then a man called ...