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OWEN MCCAFFERTY (1961 - ) |
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Nationality: Irish Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: The Agency (London) Ltd |
Born in 1961, Owen McCafferty lives with his wife, three children and granddaughter in Belfast. His work for the stage includes Shoot the Crow (Druid, Galway, 1997; Royal Exchange, Manchester, 2003), Mojo Mickybo (Kabosh, Belfast, 1998), Closing Time (National Theatre, London, 2002), Cold Comfort (Primecut Productions, Belfast, 2002), Scenes from the Big Picture (National Theatre, London, 2003), Days of Wine and Roses (Donmar Warehouse, 2005), a version of Sophocles' Antigone (Primecut Productions, Belfast, 2008) and The Absence of Women (Lyric Theatre, Belfast, 2010). He has won the Meyer-Whitworth, John Whiting and Evening Standard Awards for New Playwriting.
Plays by Owen McCafferty
Absence of Women, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 11 Feb 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571260195 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #111808 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama. - - Gay, theme/character, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Ian McElhinney, the most weighty of local thesps, is Iggy, short for Ignatius, and one of McCafferty's favourite first names. He'll never return to the Belfast he was forced to leave when his homosexuality was revealed in a boy's boxing club. Dour, in beanie and scuffed jacket, he's survived the decades, just, by downing pints, punching those who query him and burning, literally, his boats when that fails to wipe away the day he kissed ginger John so many years ago. | |||||
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Antigone | ||
| 1st Produced: | Part of the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen's Waterfront Hall Studio, Belfast | 24 Oct 2008 | ||||
Company: | Prime Cut | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781848420175 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #91656 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | plus young boy plus extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Sophocles | |||||
| A muscular version of Sophocles' timeless masterpiece, offering a profound reflection on the nature of power, democracy and human rights. The war has ended, but with peace comes conflict. Antigone's brother Polyneices lies on the battlefield where he fell, his burial outlawed by Creon, the new king of Thebes. Should Antigone obey Creon, or must she follow her conscience and lay her beloved brother to rest? | |||||
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Chairs, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Market Place, Armagh, Ireland | 05 Mar 2003 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Tinderbox, Belfast, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22977 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco | |||||
Synopsis: | An old couple have lived on an island for years and tonight they are taking the plunge. The old man has longed to pass on his total life experience but has never found the right words. Tonight he has invited the finest in society to listen as a skilled orator articulates his great words of knowledge. The old woman, his faithful companion in life, starts to set out the chairs. | |||||
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Closing Time | ||
| 1st Produced: | 09 Sep 2002 | |||||
Company: | National Theatre Company Transformations Season | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781854596918 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22978 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Vera is feisty but fading. Ronnie is washed up and permanently half-drunk. Together they run a grubby pub/hotel in present-day Belfast. Assorted 'regulars' come and go over the course of one day and night. Ronnie fails to secure the pub's financial future and Vera looks set to run off with the feckless Iggy | |||||
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Cold Comfort | ||
| 1st Produced: | 05 May 2005 | |||||
Company: | Primecut Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Singular Male Voices: Harness / McCafferty / O'Donnell, Nick Hern Books, London, 2005 >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781854597601 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48958 | |||
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Genre: | Solo Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| A labourer living in London returns home to Belfast to have a last, drunken 'conversation' with his recently dead father. | |||||
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Convictions | ||
| 1st Produced: | a site-specific work at Crumlin Road, Courthouse, Belfast. | 30 Oct 2000 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Tinderbox, Belfast, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22979 | |||
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Genre: | Series of short individual plays | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Convictions comprises seven short plays by seven different writers. The seven plays were (in alphabetical order): Male Toilets by Daragh Carville, Judge's Room by Damian Gorman, Court No. 2 by Marie Jones, Main Hall by Martin Lynch, Court No. 1 by Owen McCafferty, Jury Room by Nicola McCartney and Holding Cell by Gary Mitchell. | |||||
Synopsis: | Convictions was presented as a promenade theatre piece at Crumlin Road Courthouse, a building steeped in the history of Belfast city. Each play is set in, and draws its title from, a particular room in the Courthouse. Convictions looks to the future as each of the playwrights, all of whom are from Northern Ireland, tackle themes of justice and the act of passing judgement. | |||||
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Days Of Wine And Roses | ||
| 1st Produced: | 17 Feb 2005 | |||||
Company: | SCAMP Film and Theatre Ltd and RJK Productions, Inc. | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854598585 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48848 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | teleplay by JP Miller. Filmed 1962 | |||||
| In the fast-moving milieu of Madison Avenue, social drinking is almost an occupational necessity, and one that fast-rising young Joe Clay adopts with too ready ease. Unfortunately the girl he meets and marries shares his proclivity, and while they continue to tell themselves that they drink because they choose to, it is soon apparent that their habit has become a serious problem. But their failure to acknowledge this plunges them headlong into the shattering events of the play-a career in shambles, a marriage destroyed, the esteem of friends and family lost, and a child who has become the innocent victim of their obsession. In the poignant ending of the play a spectre of hope arises but, more important, so does a galvanizing awareness of the depth of their torment, and of the lesson which their compulsive self-destruction must have for others. | |||||
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Elasticity of Supply and Demand, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC 3 | 2001 | ||||
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 | #22980 | |||
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Genre: | Radio Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | about an old married couple reflecting over their lives | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Freefalling | ||
| 1st Produced: | 02 Feb 1996 | |||||
Company: | Kabosh, Belfast, Ireland | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays & Monologues" Langan Press, Belfast, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22981 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | He works in a burger bar; she is in a dead-end university course. They want some excitement, an adventure. They steal a car. The horrors they imagine could never match the horrors they encounter in real life. | |||||
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I Won't Dance Don't Ask Me | ||
| 1st Produced: | Who the Hell Theatre Company | 1993 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays & Monologues" Langan Press, Belfast, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854597014 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22982 | |||
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Genre: | Short Comedy Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| about a middle aged man coping with unemployment | |||||
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Law Of Diminishing Returns | ||
| 1st Produced: | BBC 3 | 2002 | ||||
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 | #51663 | |||
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Genre: | Radio Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | about an old married couple reflecting over their lives | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mojo-Mickybo | ||
| 1st Produced: | 15 Oct 1998 | |||||
Company: | Kabosh, Belfast, Ireland | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lagan Press, Belfast, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854597014 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22983 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| A rip roaring, fast paced journey into the world of Mojo and Mickybo - two boys from different sides of the bridge who develop a friendship influenced by their heroes, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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No Place Like Home | ||
| 1st Produced: | a site-specific piece at the former Northern Bank Building. Belfast. | 27 Oct 2001 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Tinderbox, Belfast, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22984 | |||
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Genre: | Physical/Devised Theatre Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | No Place Like Home is about the displaced - people who have been forced to move, who don't know where they are going or what they'll find when they arrive. In the early 1970s, huge numbers of people were forced out of their homes in Northern Ireland. All over the world people are being forced to leave their homes and their land. This devised drama uses movement, text, and drama mixed with video and installation art. | |||||
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Private Picture Show, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 22 Nov 1994 | |||||
Company: | Lyric Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays & Monologues" Langan Press, Belfast, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22985 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Iggy is a writer whose search for the truth has left him isolated and blocked. The other tenants of the rented house where he lives reveal pieces of themselves which Iggy hopes to add to the jigsaw of his story. Meanwhile, his estranged girlfriend, a photographer, returns to record her own version of the truth in a series of posed images. | |||||
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Scenes From The Big Picture | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Apr 2003 | |||||
Company: | National Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781854597298 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22986 | |||
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Genre: | Epic Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | aka Troubled | |||||
| The play takes place over the course of a hot summer's day in an imagined area of present-day Belfast. We see a day in the life of over twenty inhabitants of the district as their stories interweave and collide. In a tour de force of dramatic writing, a whole world is evoked in a couple of hours. | |||||
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Shoot The Crow | ||
| 1st Produced: | 26 Feb 1997 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854597267 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22987 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| about a day in the life of four Irish tilers on a building site. As they come to the end of the job they've been working on, Ding-Ding and Randolph plan to nick a left-over pallet of tiles. Dind-Ding wants to buy a window-cleaning round and Randolph has his eye on a motorbike. But the foreman and his sidekick have had the same idea. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Titanic (Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioners Inquiry, 1912) | ||
| 1st Produced: | MAC (Metropolitan Arts Centre), Belfast | 22 Apr 2012 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571295081 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139528 | |||
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Genre: | verbatim play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Titanic (Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry, 1912), by Owen McCafferty, is a courtroom drama full of intrigue, bravery and human frailty. At 11.40PM on 14 April 1912, the RMS Titanic, on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, struck an iceberg. At 2.20AM the following morning, the ship sank. 1,517 people died. In response to the disaster the British Government ordered an immediate inquiry and Lord Mersey was appointed Wreck Commissioner. The British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry sat from 2 May to 3 July 1912. It took testimony from 97 witnesses. Watch as a magnificent cast retell the survivors' stories - with dialogue taken word-for-word from 100-year old accounts. | |||||
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Waiting List, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 18 Apr 1994 | |||||
Company: | Point Fields Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays & Monologues" Langan Press, Belfast, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854597014 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22989 | |||
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Genre: | Short Monologue One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| A monologue about a man under siege in the community where he grew up | |||||
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Winners, Losers And Non-Runners | ||
| 1st Produced: | Point Fields Theatre Company | 1992 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays & Monologues" Langan Press, Belfast, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22990 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | First Play | |||||
Synopsis: | about a family over the christmas period | |||||
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