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BRIAN LYNCH (1945 - ) |
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Nationality: Irish Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Brian Lynch was born on 02 Feb 1945. Crooked in the Car Seat is his only stage play. Following its rejection by the Abbey Theatre, the then Script Editor, Hugh Leonard, resigned. Leonard then arranged for the play to be produced by Phyllis Ryan's company Gemini Productions. It was nominated for Harvey's of Bristol Play of the Year, but the award was won by Leonard's play 'Summer'. Lynch subsequently wrote an award-winning Channel 4 and RTE mini-series 'Caught in a Free State' in 1984, and a feature film 'Love and Rage', starring Greta Scacchi and Daniel Craig, directed by Cathal Black in 1998. The film's anti-hero is based on James Lynchehaun, whose crimes inspired John Millington Synge to write 'The Playboy of the Western World'. Lynch has recently (2011) revised 'Crooked in the Car Seat' and has also written an adaptation for the stage of Dostoyevsky's novella 'Notes from Underground'.
Plays by Brian Lynch
Crooked in the Car Seat | ||
| 1st Produced: | Eblana Theatre, Dublin | 09 Oct 1979 | ||||
Company: | Gemini Productions In association with Dublin Theatre 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 | #21532 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | The play is set in Dublin's middle-class bohemia in 1975. Its central character is a homosexual journalist arrested for an act of public indecency. | |||||
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