BRYN MANION (1975 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Bryn Manion
Convergence |
| 1st Produced: | NY Irish Center, NY | 2006 | ||||
| Company: | Aisling Arts | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | 978-0-9670234-9-6 | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | (Play 3 of the Force Trilogy) | |||||
 | In a play that spans three continents, a war journalist, a mechanic, one artist, one humanitarian aid worker, a regular guy and a science teacher plunge into painfully normal and profoundly extreme moments in time when memory and identity is absolute. Through dreams, travel, memories and a tinge of magic realism, Convergence is the story of three couples (and a few of their eccentric acquaintances) at convergent points in their lives. What will the moment of convergence bring? | |||||
Imminent, Indeed (or Polly Peachum's Peculiar Penchant for Plosives) |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
| Company: | Aisling Arts, Inc | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Comedy Drama, 120 min | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 8 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | VENUE #20: The Actors' Playhouse | |||||
| Synopsis: | Wherein mathematical wunderkind, Miss Polly Peachum, descends most egregiously into the netherworld of villainous scoundrels captained by the nefarious Macheath. A macabre, post-modern gothic tale of innocence lost and wisdom gained. Knowledge is a dangerous, seductive tincture, is it not? | |||||
Threshold |
| 1st Produced: | The Undercroft | 2004 | ||||
| Company: | Aisling Arts | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | (Play 2 of the Force Trilogy) | |||||
| Synopsis: | The middle Force play, deals exclusively with Anne and Jack. Threshold traverses the topography of their marriage, revealing their respective past lives: his as a war journalist, hers as a respected and promising visual artist. Pressed by a million small nothings, their relationship hits a threshold where they must decide to leave each other or stay the course. Threshold examines the sum of breakable moments that push relationships to a point of no return. | |||||
Wake |
| 1st Produced: | New York Irish Center, 10-40 Jackson Avenue (Long Island City), NY | 27 Oct 2010 | ||||
| Company: | Aisling Arts | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | adapted by Bryn Manion, David Vining, Wendy Remington | |||||
| Synopsis: | From Ireland to Newfoundland, from New Bedford to New York, Wake imagines a world where we are a composite of each other's memories and all the memories that predate us, our parents' memories and their parents' memories. Through stories and the act of remembering, three generations of an Irish American family are relived as the children excavate their parents' stories and come to a truer undestanding of the family's history. Down on her luck and uninspired by her own future prospects, Deirdre Sullivan moves into her family home which has been deserted since her father (esteemed writer, Dan Sullivan) died nearly two years ago. Hundreds of miles away, Deirdre's grief-stricken brother, Kevin, has taken to traveling the world over trying to recreate the adventures he imagines his father had as a young man. Kevin lands in the peculiar city of St. John's, Newfoundland, where he vaguely recollects his family has some history. When he meets a beguiling young librarian, Molly Cartwright, he begins to unlock the truth about his family's connection to the island. Meanwhile, 35 years earlier . . . their father, Dan, is going through a very similar struggle as he tries to understand his own mother and her life before he was born. Shattering his sense of identity, she shares with him secrets from her past so volatile they drive him to write an alternative family history. When a prominent magazine offers to publish Dan's story, he must decide what he values more: his mother's respect, or the respect of the world at large. - nytheatre.com | |||||
Wanderlust |
| 1st Produced: | The Undercroft | 2004 | ||||
| Company: | Aisling Arts | |||||
| 1st Published: | New York Theater Experience, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | (Play 1 of the Force Trilogy) | |||||
| Synopsis: | Jack Kavanagh, a former war journalist, lives the ideal life. He has a gorgeous, talented wife, Anne, and a respected job teaching at a prominent university in New York. But Jack has terrible secrets he hasn't shared with Anne. And those secrets stand to destroy their comfortable life together. Meanwhile, a woman's car breaks down late one winter evening in rural Vermont. A few hundred yards away, an amnesiac mechanic stands bare-chested on his brother's front lawn waiting. Their meeting seems a collision of chance, but is instead an event that unleashes secret desires, terrible fears and mercurial longings in the lives of everyone connected to them. | |||||
Work / Dream |
| 1st Produced: | Undercroft - Trinity Lutheran Church, NY | 2005 | ||||
| Company: | Aisling Arts | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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