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JOE BRENNAN |
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Nationality: Irish Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Joe Brennan is a writer and storyteller from Ireland. He grew up in Wexford Town and now lives in Donegal. He travels throughout Ireland and abroad telling stories and facilitating workshops in storytelling, drama and creative writing. He has featured in many storytelling festivals in Ireland and abroad including The Cape Clear International Storytelling Festival and the Nyskund Storytelling Festival in Norway. The Witchin' Well is his first paly to be produced. It featured first as part of the Earagail Arts Festival and subsequently undertook two Irish tours. It was also invited to the '100, 1000, 1000000 Stories' Theatre Festival, Bucharest, Romania. His play 'Dreamland' received a rehearsed reading at the Kilkenny Arts Festival in 2004. This was the culmination of a series of workshops with Barnstorm Theatre Company
Plays by Joe Brennan
Witchin' Well, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | An Grianan Theatre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, Ireland | 2005 | ||||
Company: | An Grianan Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73717 | |||
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Genre: | Children's Drama Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | Puppets for Shareel, Forest Fairies and Sean when he meets Amadan | |||||
Notes: | The part of the witch was played by a male actor in this production. Script available for consideration from the author, joebrennan@taletradition.com | |||||
Synopsis: | The Witchin' Well is a modern fairytale that tells the story of Sean and his sister Anne, who find themselves in the underworld where they encounter Nellie the witch, a strange creature called Skitter, a wise fish Shareel, Amadan the giant and rapping forest fairies. Anne is constantly mean to Sean and when they discover a well in the woods Sean wishes that he didn't have a sister, despite warnings from Anne that the well was cursed. The next morning Sean wakes to the distant screams of Anne. When he looks under his bed, thinking that the sound is coming from there, he is sucked under into the underworld where Anne is the witch's captive. The only way to free her is to confront Amadan and bring back some Ongar berries to trick the witch. Nellie believes the berries will make her even more powerful but in fact they kill her. Sean manages to enlist the help of the witch's assistant Skitter but questions his loyalty as they journey through the woods to find Amadan. On the way he has to outsmart the forest fairies, overcome his fear of heights and persuade the giant Amadan to give him the berries. | |||||
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