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NEIL O'SULLIVAN (1964 - ) |
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Nationality: Irish Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Neil O'Sullivan has been writing seriously since 1990, when aged 26, and at a pivotal moment in the development of his tender psyche, he had his tarot cards read. Acting like an automaton, impelled by forces beyond the Ken (and indeed beyond the Barbie) of normal human consciousness, he felt certain his earth shattering genius would save the world. Finding that the world had already been saved by Bono, Neil, though somewhat crushed, persisted. Eschewing his marginally lucrative non-career as a software developer in favour of the poetic muse, at a time when the poetic muse could not have been less relevant and a non-career as a software developer could not have been more on the money, Neil displayed the good judgment for which he has since become legendary (in whose lunchtime is anyone's guess). Displaying the iron will and devil take the hindmost attitude of the truly successful, Neil appeared occasionally in dingy pubs at open mike sessions to perform his poetry and occasionally stand up comedy. The world spectacularly failed to take notice. Thence displaying the humility for which he has since become legendary (he really is quite a legend you know) he translated the I Ching from the English (unpublished). Wrote a book of philosophical ruminations entitled, Zen and the Art of Exhaling Carbon Dioxide (unpublished) and a collection of poetry pithily entitled, The Book of Visions, (self published) for which he received the following kind review "He is trying to climb Mount Everest in his shorts and sandals". He subsequently wrote another collection entitled "Skiing up Everest in your Underpants". Faber and Faber were surprisingly unmoved. He has since had a little more luck with the plays.
Plays by Neil O'Sullivan
Blivet | ||
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| 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 | #50104 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | The word Blivet means ten pound of faeces in a five pound bag. A comic, love story concerning a degenerate priest and a prostitute, an ex-nun and the Michaelangelo of pipe fitters, and a serial killing gangster and his own ego. | |||||
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Colonel Bratski's Marvelous Lemon Juice Remedy | ||
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| 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 | #52168 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Three scenes, each a year apart, set in the same hotel room, join two people in a strange journey of serendipity - Or not | |||||
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Come The Evolution | ||
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| 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 | #50105 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A man suffering from an ADD like mental condition, aided by his wife, tries to gain underhand leverage over his two harpy bosses, who are also sisters and avid experimenters with cutting edge hallucinogens. He invited them to dinner. During a particularly brief, yet powerful psychic journey one of the sisters brings something back with her. | |||||
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Curley Fries | ||
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| 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 | #50109 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | A man fresh out of prison, plots revenge on his hated enemy, who also happens to be with his wife. A lonely woman is having an affair with a younger man, while her husband works his fingers to the bone, without making headway. Does revenge ever pan out to be what you dream it will be? And what is the price of it. | |||||
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Dave Takes A Taxi | ||
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| 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 | #50110 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | A man enters a taxi. It is a long journey. The driver tells him a story. But where are they really going and who is the story really about? | |||||
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Grooming | ||
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| 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 | #52167 | |||
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 | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Opening with a revelation of childhood trauma, Grooming explores some alternate perspectives on the abused and the abuser. | |||||
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Gullibles Travels | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
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| 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 | #71897 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Gullibles Travels, A tragic comic performance piece, is in no way an oblique comment on the plight of modern man, feeling isolated and powerless in his cubicle of quiet desperation. It does not reflect the fractured consciousness inspired by an ADD afflicted media bombardment. It thoroughly avoids echoing the spiritual malaise of the uncertain man surrounded by nonsensical certainties. Nor, it would like, in closing, does it attempt to shadow the desire to escape from the prison of self through the act imaginative self creation. It in no way fails to do any of this. Not. | |||||
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Hammerhead | ||
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| 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 | #50107 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | A young man is a drunken mellee, murders another and is sent to prison. The father of the murdered man, is a crooked policeman. The cross dressing minister for Justice is apprehended by a young policeman, with a dead prostitute in the boot of his car and a suitcase stuffed with Sterling. How are these stories interlinked and what is the brutal truth at the heart of them? | |||||
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Hatch 22 | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
Company: | Corcadorca Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #26608 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Raymond and Alice, a childless couple, seek solace and communication in the imaginative flights of fancy that are their only source of freedom and opportunity. The grind of daily labour, the difficulties with communications and joys of flying sofa's, giant birds, the heights of Machu Pichu and the marvelous specifications of the T1000 vacuum cleaner are dealt with on our journey. | |||||
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House Of Skin | ||
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| 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 | #50106 | |||
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Synopsis: | Two reclusive elderly people, who are not what they seem are visited by a journalist who is also not what she seems. She persuades them to tell their story. But what is her real agenda? | |||||
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Idiot Wind | ||
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| 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 | #50108 | |||
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 | |||||
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Synopsis: | A different place. A different time. Two lovers who have long parted ways acrimoniously, come together one night, one to finally clear the air between them. The other to resist. There are some things that cannot be fixed. | |||||
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Meat | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Asylum Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #50103 | |||
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Genre: | Horror/Comedy Comedy | |||||
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Notes: | The play was first produced in the context of the Cork Midsummer festival. Reviews - "One of the better plays which premiered this year was Neil O'Sullivans Meat, at the Granary Theatre. Set in 19th Century Victorian London, Meat Features the kind of gratuitous cannibalism and weird sex for which the Victorians seemingly had an insatiable appetitie. This production had everything - high-flown language, complex characters, an inventive set and sound design, and a well thought out plot - to get the audience onside& Not since Martin McDonagh's The Pillow Man has any Irish writer dealt so successfully with such dark materials" - The Irish Examiner. | |||||
Synopsis: | Father was not two weeks cut from the gibbet when Mother died of the pox, leaving us to be taken in and cared for in an orphanage, where I was beaten almost skinless on an almost daily basis but very rarely buggered. And that's near the best I can say for it. . . Set at the turn of the 20th century, Meat is a comic/horror/melodrama which delves into the seamy underbelly of upper class Victorian society and reveals the simmering miasma of lust, greed and murder at its heart. It also contains scenes of murder, betrayal, adultery, bisexuality, fellatio, castration, prostitution, pornography, male, female and vegetable sodomy and at least six varieties of drug abuse. . . Not forgetting the psychological torture, epic battle of sexual wits, nudity, poverty, gambling, corruption, embezzlement, political scandal, cannibalism, necrophilia, organized crime and group sex | |||||
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Misery, Agony, Pain And Destruction In The Tormented Pits Of Hellish Despair | ||
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| 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 | #50111 | |||
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Synopsis: | A comic monologue detailing the dementedly traumatic life experience of an itinerant poet called Mickeleen Mic Macmahuna. | |||||
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There Is No Spoon | ||
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| 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 | #52169 | |||
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 | |||||
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Synopsis: | A love traumatized young girl, a confused detective, a physicist trapped in a beam of light, a grieving wife and her husband and a young man are brought together in a chaotic reality to resolve a cosmic equation | |||||
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