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JOHN DONNELLY |
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Literary Agent: Alan Brodie Representation Ltd |
John Donnelly has worked in various primary and secondary schools across London, Essex and Kent, including programmes aimed at curriculum development, Irish and Romany Travellers, enterprise, literacy, sex education, addictions, student voice. His previous plays include Bone (Royal Court Theatre), Poll Tax Riots (Hampstead Theatre) and Songs of Grace and Redemption (Theatre 503). He is a past winner of both the PMA Award for Best New Writer and the NSDF Sunday Times Playwriting Award.
Plays by John Donnelly
Alarm And Distress | ||
| 1st Produced: | Drama Centre, Redbridge | - - - | ||||
Company: | Redbridge Youth Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #138314 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Beach parties, spray paint and dead end jobs | |||||
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Bone | ||
| 1st Produced: | 09 Sep 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571227150 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41352 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Three people. Stephen wants his ex to realise he's got what it takes. Helen wants her dead husband back. Jamie wants a girl to see him off to war. Three lives stripped bare in a modern world. | |||||
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DryFIGHT | ||
| 1st Produced: | East End Pub, London | 2009 | ||||
Company: | DryWright | |||||
| 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 | #101355 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Writers include John Donnelly, Ashanti Dhawan, Matt Hartley, Joel Horwood, Phil Porter, Penelope Skinner | |||||
Synopsis: | It's ingeniously simple. They perform twice over the weekend: each performance features four short scenes of fights, all of them beginning verbally and becoming physical. At the start of the show every audience member is given four simple coloured paper hats. Before each scene begins we are introduced via the booming PA system to each of the characters it will involve - they strut onto stage, pose and flex and grimace like Mickey Rourke, and we don a hat of a certain colour to "cast our vote" on that particular character coming out on top. Of course this is before we know anything about the nature of each fight, so it's interesting in theory to wonder what makes us side with one character over another purely on first glance. Do the women go for the women? Do we back the scrawnier man to try and predict the unpredictable? Which of the nuns looks the most muscular? As it is though, there are few easily apparent trends. All our attention really is focused on screaming out our support of whoever we have arbitrarily chosen to back. This is theatre for closet wrestling fans, quite excessively happy to suddenly be encouraged to watch drama and make noise. As an experience it's infectious - but I fear not to be too often repeated, as only certain contexts allow it to work. I also wonder how long before the concept becomes stale - once you have seen it I doubt you'd feel the need to experience it again - unless the company push it in a new direction. In summary, we have two nuns attending a school reunion and discovering that their schoolmate of the time, who inspired both of their religious conversions, now views them with contempt. A man tries to hastily get rid of a woman after a one-night-stand, but his girlfriend bursts in on them. A jilted boyfriend challenges his ex-girlfriend's new lover to a fight to win her, which he will video for her to prove his devotion. But the final scene has an unexpected spike. Two old friends, one gay one straight, emerge from a gay club late at night, the straight one distraught having broken up with his girlfriend, and in a moment of drunken confusion makes a sexual advance on his friend. The ensuing fracas is him being fought off by his friend, who is trying only to beat sense into him. There's no-one for us to cheer for, the emotions of the piece are too true to make for easy side-taking. And the ending is horrifically unexpected and downbeat. We stop shouting long enough to think about what we have been doing. It's a canny achievement. But for all that, the show overall is too enjoyable for us not to emerge with smiles all over our faces. Guilty though they may be. | |||||
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Finally The Girl | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | Fervour Collective | |||||
| 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 | #41353 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Five Songs Of Grace And Redemption | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Liminal Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #51873 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | In the city, there is who we are and who we want to be. Five lost people make life-changing decisions to rescue themselves - and each other - through random acts of kindness. Seductive and penetrating, Songs of Grace and Redemption is the story of ordinary people struggling to break out and break free - An urban fairytale of house wine, home porn, maps, cats and heavy metal. | |||||
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Hack! | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #51874 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Hope To Die | ||
| 1st Produced: | St Martin's, Melbourne, Australia | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #51875 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Knowledge, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 25 Jan 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571276721 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117894 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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| Being a teacher means weekends. It means thirteen weeks holiday. It means a secure job in uncertain times. But Zoe doesnt want to have to rescue her students. She doesnt want to be called a slag. She doesnt want to sleep with the Head of Science. And she doesnt want to teach a group of kids how to do life. Because thats something Zoes not sure she knows how to do herself. Examining what happens when a young teacher goes off the rails in a failing school. | |||||
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Little Russians | ||
| 1st Produced: | 09 Feb 2012 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849431521 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #132691 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Part of The Bomb a partial history. FIRST BLAST: Proliferation | |||||
| The Soviet Union's sudden collapse into chaos leaves the Ukraine and Kazakhstan with their fingers still on the nuclear button. The Russians and the Americans form an uneasy alliance to try to locate the missing missiles. However, deep in the countryside, a Ukrainian family have other ideas, and seize their chance of making quick money on the black market. In an anarchic look at power and politics, the ambitions of two super-powers are tested by a wheeler-dealing pair of scrap metal merchants. | |||||
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Myrna Molloy | ||
| 1st Produced: | 22 Feb 2006 | |||||
Company: | Operating Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #91270 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | part of Writers' Block 4: a week of new (world) work. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Odyssey, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oxford: Blackwell's Bookshop | 30 Mar 2012 | ||||
Company: | Creation Theatre and The factory | |||||
| 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 | #139830 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | adapted by Tim Carroll, John Donnelly, Federay Holmes, Jay Luxembourg, Barbara Norden, Cathy Rosario after Homer | |||||
Synopsis: | The Factory turn their unique spirit of spontaneity, playfulness and imagination to Homers epic tales this spring. Combining movement, song, text and improvisation, each performance will be a spontaneous re-telling that re-creates the original spirit of one of the worlds oldest oral storytelling traditions. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Personal Matters | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #9835 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Pleasure | ||
| 1st Produced: | Metropolitan University, Leeds, West Yorkshire | 26 Nov 1997 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #122039 | |||
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Synopsis: | 'Pleasure' examines love relationships in the 90s illuminating the disenfranchisement and 'cold-calling' structure of the personal columns. Characters set about their objective projecting inaccurate images of personalities that are no more real then fictional characters on film or in advertisements. The story eases us in with some humour as two brothers couple up with their blind dates. On their behaviour, of course, and not always revealing their true colours, the characters gradually reveal the tragedies of self mis-representation in a world which seems to judge the book by its cover. | |||||
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Sex And Death | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #51877 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Showtime | ||
| 1st Produced: | LAMDA, London | 26 May 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #122038 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Written in collaboration with students on the Three Year Acting Course at LAMDA, Showtime was created as part of the Academy's Long Project initiative. A policeman wants to see his daughter. An immigrant wants to run her own tapas bar. A manager in a multinational corporation wants to do the right thing. A DJ wants to change the world through his music. And an anarchist wants to take his clothes off in public. Against the backdrop of a fictional May Day demonstration, Showtime charts three months in the lives of a group of disparate Londoners, and asks what it really means to be political. How do you show how you feel about someone or something? In an angry world, is saying I love you a political act? | |||||
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Slave/Teacher | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, Lyric Square, King St, London W6 0QL >>> | 05 Nov 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #51876 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | written by Belinda Earle; Chrissie Adesina; John Donnelly and Chudi Obiora | |||||
Synopsis: | This is a story about blackness, what it is to be black in Britain today, and what it was to be black and enslaved in the 1800s. Working with traditional dances and historical text, woven with rap, street dance and new harmonies, the Lyric Step Up Company have created a performance that follows the journey of a Black British brother and sister into their family's past. | |||||
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Songs of Grace And Redemption | ||
| 1st Produced: | 30 Oct 2007 | |||||
Company: | Liminal Theatre, Time Won't Wait and Theatre 503 | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571240937 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96463 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Seductive and penetrating, Songs of Grace and Redemption is the story of ordinary people struggling to break out and break free. In the city, there is who we are and who we want to be. Five lost people make life-changing decisions to rescue themselves - and each other - through random acts of kindness. - I had a dream where every time I ever did anything or went anywhere or said anything, people would say: 'Someone else just did that, you're just copying them aren't you?' Turns out I never had a single original thought my whole life. How scary is that? - That's funny. I had that dream too. An urban fairytale of house wine, home porn, maps, cats and heavy metal. | |||||
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There | ||
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Company: | Rampage Festival - Young Writers Festival | |||||
| 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 | #51872 | |||
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