VINCENT WOODS   (1960 - )


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Irish
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Plays by Vincent Woods

VINCENT WOODS
At The Black Pig's Dyke
1st Produced:
1992
Company:
1st Published:
in Far from The Land, edited by John Fairleigh, Methuen, London, 1998
ISBN/ASIN
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
4
Parts Other:
Cross casting is essential doubling is possible
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
At the Black Pig's Dyke is a story of murder, mystery, fairy tale and tragic love. The play is set on the border of Northern and Southern Ireland where family feuds are passed down through generations. The story is told using the pagan ritual of the mummers' play as a metaphor for Ireland at a time where people laughed at a wake and cried when a child was born.
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VINCENT WOODS
Cry From Heaven, A
1st Produced:
2005
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
9780413775399
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
13 actors
Notes:
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Cry From Heaven, A
With this new play Vincent Woods breaks ranks with Yeats and Synge by reimagining the story of Deirdre and Naoise not as misty Celtic twilight, but as a dark and lusty bloodbath: Irish myth as Greek tragedy. He has an eager co-conspirator in French director Olivier Py, whose production involves on-stage rain, male and female nudity, simulated sex acts, and the actors moving big black set units around on casters.
Karen Fricker, The Guardian
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VINCENT WOODS
Fontamara
1st Produced:
Old Riding School, Collins Barracks, Dublin.
1998
Company:
Vesuvius Theatre Company
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
7
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Fontamara follows the plight of a peasant village in southern Italy, facing the imminent arrival of the Fascist regime.
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VINCENT WOODS
John Hughdy and Tom John
1st Produced:
1991
Company:
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
John Hughdy and Tom John comprises two short companion plays. John Hughdy is a natural showman who delights in people and delights in shocking them. He is a storyteller, an easy conversationalist, someone who would talk to himself or to the cat or the dog and think nothing of it. Tom John is isolated in a way that his father never was: he is one of those young men who can be found lonely at bar-counters in small towns or drunk in their empty fields with no one to go home to.
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VINCENT WOODS
Song Of The Yellow Bittern
1st Produced:
1994
Company:
1st Published:
-
ISBN/ASIN
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Set, in part, against a background of a famous paternity lawsuit taken by a Protestant woman against a Catholic priest in 1828, a story unravels over time, linking events and people over seven generations in a small rural community. Song of the Yellow Bittern is both a love story and a ghost story
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VINCENT WOODS
Winter
1st Produced:
2005
Company:
-
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:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
0
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Jon Fosse
Synopsis:
A 40-ish woman, dressed in too-youthful urban gear and white high heels, talks to a man whose drab trenchcoat and clunky briefcase signify "middle-management nobody". Her clothes mark her out as a prostitute, but the dialogue is heightened enough to make this feel like more than a pick-up. He takes her to his hotel room and she strips down to her bra and panties, but things don't go further. We find out he is married, but are not confident that this is what holds him back.
Karen Fricker, The Guardian
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