Thomas Baden Morris (30 April 1900 – 22 January 1986) was an English writer from

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who as T. B. Morris and as Yves Cabrol wrote a large number of plays, popular with amateur theatre groups. As a prolific playwright (over a hundred one-act plays written) he has been compared with

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and

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, and has been remarked on for his stylistic breadth and variety of subject matter and cast requirements. His "Yves Cabrol" plays are comedies set in provincial France. Several of his plays were directed by

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for the

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Theatre Guild in the 1940s: ''Renaissance Night'', ''Gild the Mask Again'' and ''The Beautiful One''. He died in

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in 1986.

References

External links

Doolee.com the playwrights' database:T. B. Morris

20th-century British dramatists and playwrights 1900 births 1986 deaths People from Godstone {{UK-writer-stub