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DAVE DUGGAN (1955 - ) |
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Nationality: Irish Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Dave Duggan is a dramatist and novelist. He wrote and directed seven plays for Sole Purpose Productions, published by Guildhall Press as Plays in a Peace Process. Of these AH 6905 was adapted for production in Afghanistan in 2008. Other stage plays include Spike Dreams, a Derry Playhouse production, Bubbles in the Hot-Tub for Blue Eagle Productions and, in Irish, Gruagairi - for Aisling Ghear, for which he was awarded a Stewart Parker Trust/BBC Award. Dave has written radio drama for RTe and BBC Radio 4, as well as a number of original screenplays, including for the Oscar/Academy Award nominated Dance Lexie Dance. His radio play Everyone's Got A Mountain To Climb for RTe was Ireland's 2009 submission to the international radio drama series World Play. Guildhall Press published his novel, The Greening of Larry Mahon. He wrote Cú De for The Abbey Theatre, Dublin. (2009).
Plays by Dave Duggan
AH 6905 | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Playhouse, Derry | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Sole Purpose Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Guildhall Press, Plays in a Peace Process, June 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-906271-13-8 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106704 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Dublin Fringe Festival 2006; Afghanistan 2008 | |||||
Synopsis: | Danny is in pre-op when we visit him the night before he is due to have the truth of the conflict in Ireland cut out of him. Will he be healed? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bubbles in the Hot-Tub | ||
| 1st Produced: | Millennium Forum, Derry | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Blue Eagle 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 | #96570 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A young couple wrestle with modern marriage and an empty hot-tub on the night her mother and his boss come round for a dip. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cú De | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | The Abbey Theatre ,Dublin | |||||
| 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 | #106711 | |||
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Genre: | Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In Irish. Two fundamentalists clash on a plane over the legacy of the founder of their cult. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gruagairi | ||
| 1st Produced: | An Cultúrlann, Belfast | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Aisling Ghear | |||||
| 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 | #76956 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner of Stewart Parker Trust/BBC Award | |||||
Synopsis: | In Irish. Two young women in a struggling hairdressing business save their business at the cost of their partnership. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Recruiting Office, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Playhouse, Derry | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Sole Purpose Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Guildhall Press, Plays in a Peace Process, June 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-906271-13-8 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106705 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A man and a woman turn up for the same job. Who should get it? The woman with years of experience or the recent IT graduate? In homage to Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Riders to the Road | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Playhouse, Derry | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Sole Purpose Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Guildhall Press, Plays in a Peace Process, June 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-906271-13-8 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #76675 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A modern version of Synge's Riders to the Sea, with deaths by road tragedy rather than drowning. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Scenes from an Inquiry | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Playhouse, Derry | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Sole Purpose Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Guildhall Press, Plays in a Peace Process, June 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-906271-13-8 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106707 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Poetic tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | RTe radio version 2003 | |||||
Synopsis: | Witnesses give imagined testimony at The Saville Inquiry, in poetic language that exceeds the narrowness of legal discourse and reaches deeper truths. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Shopper and The Boy, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Foyle Arts Centre, Derry | 1996 | ||||
Company: | Sole Purpose Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Guildhall Press, Plays in a Peace Process, June 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-906271-13-8 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106710 | |||
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Genre: | Poetic drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A loyalist marcher and a nationalist mother clash in the city centre, reviewing their histories and their options. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Spike Dreams | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Playhouse, Derry | 2003 | ||||
Company: | The Playhouse, Derry | |||||
| 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 | #106706 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Facing redundancy from the local textile factory, the family breaks apart as the young take flight with their dreams and the parents panic. It gets worse when Spike, the youngest, announces that an asteroid is about to hit. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Still, The Blackbird Sings | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Playhouse, Derry | 25 Feb 2010 | ||||
Company: | The Playhouse, Derry | |||||
| 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 | #117961 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 Drummer/Stage Manager | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The barracks life of poet soldier Francis Ledwidge, his political and personal conflicts in The British Army in WW1 after The Battle of the Somme and The Easter Rising. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Waiting. . . | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Playhouse, Derry | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Sole Purpose Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Guildhall Press, Plays in a Peace Process, June 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-906271-13-8 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106708 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Also Edinburgh Fringe and New York | |||||
Synopsis: | A man meets the woman, just out of prison, who blew up his wife, at the bus-stop where the incident occurred. They face the challenge of moving on. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Without the Walls | ||
| 1st Produced: | Foyle Arts Centre, Derry | 1998 | ||||
Company: | Sole Purpose Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Guildhall Press, Plays in a Peace Process, June 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-906271-13-8 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #106709 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Greek Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Three elders deal with the demands of a woman who wants to bury her brother inside the city, though he was a rebel. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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