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PHILLIP MCMAHON (1979 - ) |
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Nationality: Irish Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: MacFarlane Chard Ass IRL |
Phillip began writing in 2005. His debut play, 'Danny and Chantelle (still here)' played two sell out runs in Dublin and was awarded the 'Spirit of the Fringe' award by the Dublin Fringe Festival 2006. The following year, Phillip's second play 'All Over Town' was co produced by Calipo/thisispopbaby and was nominated for the 'Fishamble New Writing Award'. In 2007 Phillip wrote his first short film, 'Round Here' in conjunction with the Sheriff Street After Schools Project and Calipo Picture Company. In 2008, Phillip wrote 'Investment Potential' for the Abbey Theatre's 20:LOVE season. 'Investment Potential' was staged at Project Arts Centre as part of LOVE 2.0 at the Dublin Fringe Festival, was nominated for the Fishamble New Writing Award, and picked up the RTE audience choice award.
Plays by Phillip McMahon
Alice In Funderland | ||
| 1st Produced: | 21 Jan 2011 | |||||
Company: | THISISPOPBABY | |||||
| 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 | #123681 | |||
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: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | Written by Phillip McMahon. Composed by Raymond Scannell | |||||
Synopsis: | Unlucky in love, Corkonian Alice is all set for her sister's wedding (always the bridesmaid and never the bride), when a chance encounter with delivery boy Warren sends her spiraling through the Dublin streets. In an epic chase for love on the strangest night of her life, Alice tumbles through the dark, bombarded by grinning politicians, pyjama clad bowsies, egg heads on the edge, the self help mafia, media gargoyles, twisted scissor sisters, and of course, Delores - The Queen of Hartstown. Things sure ain't what they used to be. The looking glass is well and truly cracked. But is true love possible on the other side& or is this town just full of clowns? | |||||
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All Over Town | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Calipo Theatre Co. & thisispopbaby | |||||
| 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 | #94455 | |||
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: | Coming of age road trip | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Sean is 21. He's all over Dublin. . .and he hates it. He has a ticket to Australia and a plan - to be anonymous, have the year of his life, change everything and, most importantly, get as far away from Ireland as possible. This dark and comic odyssey follows one young Irish man as he journeys across south-east Asia and Australia; a journey where 'hostel' is a dirty word and phoning home is the last thing on the agenda. | |||||
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Danny and Chantelle (Still Here) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Project Cube, Dublin | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: Queer Notions: New Plays and Performances From Ireland" published by Cork University Press 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1859184691 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67090 | |||
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 | - | Female | - | ||
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| Follows best friends Danny and Chantelle from their council flats through a drug-fuelled night on the town. The precedents in recent Irish theatre are clear: in subject matter, form (overlapping direct address monologues with embodied scenes), and roller-coaster-ride feel, the play echoes both Enda Walsh and Mark O'Rowe. McMahon's voice is gentler than his predecessors, however, and his focus more squarely on the psychology and emotional entanglement of his protagonists. The subtext is that Chantelle is in love with Danny, but he is gay - though this is never directly stated. She hilariously describes scaring off his last girlfriend, but is angered when another friend calls this "marking her territory". Danny happily reports walking arm in arm with his mate Steo, but reacts violently when Steo reminds him that they kissed. The fact that their intimacy will not be sustainable much longer gives Danny and Chantelle's friendship a sweet and idyllic quality that is fully realised in McMahon and Georgina McKevitt's engaging performances. This contrasts productively with the play's depiction of the hedonism of youth culture, which is frank and will doubtless shock some: coarse language, social activity centered on drugs, throwaway attitudes to casual sex. What McMahon describes, though, feels socially accurate: there is a bracing honesty here, although the show probably fitted better in its original setting - the "PoD" nightclub amid the Fringe frenzy - than in this traditionally theatrical context. | |||||
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Investment Potential | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Thisispopbaby & The Abbey Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #94456 | |||
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: | Short play on the theme of love | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | As part of 'LOVE 2.0' | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Pineapple | ||
| 1st Produced: | Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda | 30 Apr 2011 | ||||
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 | #126887 | |||
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: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Roxanna is only interested in herself, boys and booze. Her sister Paula devotes herself selflessly to her family. So when love comes knocking at Paula's door will she think of herself for once? | |||||
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