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WILSON JOHN HAIRE (1932 - ) |
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Nationality: Irish Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Born Belfast 1932. Educated Clontonacally Public Elementary School, County Down 1938 - 1946. Apprentice Woodworker Harland & Wolff, Shipbuilders, Belfast 1946 - 1953. Building site carpenter - on and off - London 1954 - 1997. Short stories printed in Irish Democrat, London 1960 - 1961. Co-Producer Camden Group Theatre, London 1968 - 1969. Resident Dramatist, Royal Court Theatre , London 1974. Resident Dramatist Lyric Theatre, Belfast 1976. Collection of short stories published by Brandon, Republic of Ireland 2002. The George Devine Award for Drama 1972. Most Promising Playwright Award Evening Standard 1973. The Leverhulme Award for Writing in Theatre 1976. Thames Television Award for Theatre Writing 1977.Various Arts Council of Great Britain Awards and the Arts Council of Northern Award for Drama. Member Society of Authors.
Plays by Wilson John Haire
Bloom Of The Diamond Stone | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Pluto Press, London (ISBN 0435 233637), 1979 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0861042074 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15077 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Boy/girl relationship in Belfast factory runs into difficulties due to their different backgrounds. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Clockin' Hen, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1968 | |||||
Company: | Camden Theatre Group, London | |||||
| 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 | #15078 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A demonstration against a Ian Paisley march through a Belfast Catholic area in 1962 causes a riot which results in a court case. The Clockin' Hen in the title is the broody hen which is about to hatch out the egg that results in The Troubles | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dandelion Clock, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC1 | 1975 | ||||
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 | #50669 | |||
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Genre: | TV | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | BBC1 Television Play for Today, 15 May, 1975 | |||||
Synopsis: | Young girl from an East Belfast Protestant ghetto does a runner from school for a day, wanders the city, during its violenr period, and encounters Catholic girls of her own age, for the first time. Missing, she causes anxiety for her family who begin a search for her | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Diamond, Bone And Hammer And Along The Shoughs Of Ulster, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1968 | |||||
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 | #15079 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | produced at Unity Theatre, London on the 8th of August, 1969 | |||||
Synopsis: | Influenced by Brecht's Fear and Misery in the Third Reich, it shows in 7 scenes life in Northern Ireland for the average Catholic during the old Stormont Regime during the 1950s and early 1960s | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Divil Era | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1968 | |||||
Company: | Camden Theatre Group, London | |||||
| 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 | #15080 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Two brothers in the B-Specials (auxiliary police in N.Ireland, disbanded in 1972) guard a road bridge. Without very much to do they pick on their father's farm labourer when he approaches drunkenly (after a night out) and verbally torment him. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Echoes From A Concrete Canyon | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||||
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 | #15081 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A woman in a high-rise block in London slowly disintegrates when her husband leaves her and she meets up with a slightly deranged lover. The woman's teenage daughter also gives her hell in the process of growing up | |||||
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Letter From A Soldier | ||
| 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 | #15082 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | BBC2 Television, in the Centre Play series March 1975 | |||||
Synopsis: | A soldier returns from duty in N.Ireland and suffers delayed trauma from his experience there which causes problems for his mother and younger brother | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lost Worlds | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1978 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Haire, W.J., Lost Worlds" Heinemann, London, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0435-233637 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15083 | |||
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Genre: | Three Short Plays One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Newsflash, Wedding Breakfast, Roost | |||||
Synopsis: | Depicting individual lives destroyed by the wars of the 20th Century | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Newsflash | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1978 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Haire, W.J., Lost Worlds" Heinemann, London, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0435-233637 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15084 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Lost Worlds | |||||
Synopsis: | An elderly bedridden Protestant mother and her 3 middle-aged daughters are caught up in a firefight between the British Army and the IRA along the Northern Ireland border with Eire. A mortar round comes through their roof killing them just as they have fatalistically climbed on to their mother's bed to make a last journey | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Roost | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1978 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Haire, W.J., Lost Worlds" Heinemann, London, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0435-233637 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15085 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Lost Worlds | |||||
Synopsis: | A young Cambodian girl has been taken out of her country by a charity organisation and taken to London. As she grows older she wonders about her past life and begins to watch the skies for planes. Slowly her past life comes back to her and that ends in the murder of her foster-parents | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Wedding Breakfast | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1981 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Haire, W.J., Lost Worlds" Heinemann, London, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0435-233637 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15086 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Lost Worlds. Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, Surrey , 1981 | |||||
Synopsis: | A young IRA man has just married but he and his bride flee to a derelict house to have their wedding breakfast, aided by a neighbour while the British Army are slowly sledgehammering their way through the walls of the derelict houses further along the street. Soon they will be hammering through their walls. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Within Two Shadows | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1971 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Davis Poynter, London & Plays and Player, June, 1972, 1972 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15087 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner George Devine Award & Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award. Also published by New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, Volume 1, Number 9, September, 1972. Also been produced at The Lyric Theatre, Belfast, September, 1972 and at | |||||
Synopsis: | A family divided along political/religious lines in Ulster | |||||
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