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SEBASTIAN BARRY (1955 - ) |
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Nationality: Irish Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Independent Talent Group Limited |
Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His play The Steward of Christendom, first produced in 1995, won many awards and has been seen around the world. He is the author of two highly acclaimed novels, The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998) and Annie Dunne (2002). His most recent play, Whistling Psyche, premiered at The Almeida, London, in 2004.
Plays by Sebastian Barry
Andersen's English | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds | 11 Feb 20010 | ||||
Company: | Hampstead Theatre and Out of Joint | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571242283 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #109114 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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| About an imagined meeting between Victorian English novelist Charles Dickens and danish fairytale writer hans Christian Andersen. | |||||
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Boss Grady's Boys | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Raven Arts press, Dublin, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2242 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Mick and Josey are two ould fellas employed on a hill-farm on the Cork-Kerry border, still dreaming of the Wild West and freedom | |||||
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Chain Play, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | Conceived and commissioned by Angus Mackenchnie | |||||
| 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 | #2243 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | One off performance of chain writing to celebrate the National Theatre's 25th anniversary. A scene each from all the authors for a performance on one night | |||||
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Dallas Sweetman | ||
| 1st Produced: | Canterbury Cathedral / touring | 2008 | ||||
Company: | in association with Paines Plough | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #91645 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | a play of truth and forgiveness - the first contmporary drama to be part of the Canterbury Cathedral's tradition of commissioning plays for the cathederal's spaces | |||||
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Fred And Jane | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571224609 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2244 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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| Fred and Jane explores the deep and sustaining friendship between two nuns, Anna and Beatrice, as they recall the trials and joys of religious life. | |||||
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Hinterland | ||
| 1st Produced: | Octagon Theatre, Bolton, UK | 2002 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2245 | |||
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Genre: | Political Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Johnny Silvester, is a disgraced Irish elder statesman facing a tribunal's charges of corruption. But, as he sits in his Georgian mansion in the Dublin hinterland, he confronts more immediate accusers. His wife never lets him forget his 15 years of sexual infidelity. His once brilliant son has turned into a suicidal depressive. An undergraduate interviewer taunts him with betrayal of his country. A ghostly politician thrice emerges Banquo-like from the bookcase to promise that the fires of hell are being stoked against his arrival. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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House of Bernarda Alba, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
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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 | #2246 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 20 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca | |||||
Synopsis: | In rural Spain, five daughters exist in a cloistered household managed by their widowed mother and demented grandmother. The mother enforces an eight year mourning period, and tensions build. | |||||
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Only True History of Lizzie Finn, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2247 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 17 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Lizzie, performing in Weston-super-Mare, is wooed in unorthodox, even distracted fashion by a fellow Kerryman returned from the Boer War and haunted by his experiences in Africa. Won over by his 'wildness', it is only on her arrival in Ireland that she realises he is of the landlord class, one of those whose rent demands led to her own family's rootlessness. The Only True History of Lizzie Finn examines the social and religious prejudices in Ireland of the 1890s in a powerful human history. Like the colourful heroes of the Old West, Barry's young lovers write their private histories of adventure, romance and new beginnings | |||||
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Our Lady Of Sligo | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playhouse, Oxford | 1998 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780413721402 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2248 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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| From her hospital bed in 1950's Dublin, Mai O'Hara recalls her life through morphine-induced memories and hallucinations. Dying of liver cancer caused by alcoholism, Mai reminisces on her youthful promise as a member of the Galway bourgeoisie; the death of one of her children; and of the marriage fueled by liquor, bickering, and remorse, to her husband, Jack-who visits her on occasion as does her daughter, Joanie. Jack's visits to her bedside are a testament to the mutual hatred they share and the mutual dependence they have on each other. Through it all, Mai uses her mordant wit and vanity to pull her out of painful realizations. Once the first woman in Sligo to wear trousers, Mai emerges not only the victim of a broken marriage but a victim of an Ireland in which the Catholic middle-class has been nullified by spiritual and political isolation after the Civil War. | |||||
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Pentagonal Dream, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Damer Hall, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin | 1986 | ||||
Company: | Operating 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 | #2249 | |||
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Genre: | Physical/Devised Theatre Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | In The Pentagonal Dream a single figure speaks with five separate male voices. The voices do not talk directly to one another and appear to be different people, but each is a strand of the whole man. Each voice tries to explain, justify and in the end, understand. The voices can be identified by their order of appearance: Father, Murderer, Storyteller, Fetishist and Messiah/Anti-Christ. | |||||
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Prayers Of Skerkin | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2250 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | marks the end of an English culture in Ireland | |||||
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Pride Of Parnell Street, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Fishamble 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 | #73226 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A pair of interwoven monologues. A Dublin couple's marriage has fallen apart following an unchar¬acteristic bout of domestic violence on his part. She - Janet -has blocked him out of her life, but never moved on with it; he -Joe - has sunk, through further violence, heroin-addiction and Aids, to the depths of incarcerated loneliness. | |||||
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She Was Wearing. . . | ||
| 1st Produced: | Smock Alley Theatre & Studio (formerly known as SS Michael & John's Church and Buildings) | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Fishamble 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 | #72511 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1 performer | |||||
Notes: | A series of short, interconnecting monologues specially commissioned in response to Amnesty International's Stop Violence Against Women Campaign written by Sebastian Barry, Maeve Binchy, Dermot Bolger, Michael Collins, Stella Feehily, Rosalind Haslett, Roisin Ingle, Marian Keyes and Gavin Kostick. | |||||
Synopsis: | different items of clothing inspire different interconnecting monologues | |||||
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Steward Of Christendom, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780413718204 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2251 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
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| The fifth play in a cycle of plays about the author's Irish family, THE STEWARD OF CHRISTENDOM is a freely imagined portrait of the author's great-grandfather, Thomas Dunne, the last Chief Superintendent of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, an organization devoted to the British crown but then disbanded after the Irish war of independence of the 1920s. Considered by some to be a traitor to Ireland, and after some seven years of confinement in the County Home, Dunne is a broken man, both mentally and physically. Alone in a barren room, barely clothed and in little control of his faculties, Dunne, at 75, reenacts scenes from his past, taking refuge in the memory of his three daughters and a son who died in World War I. The parallels between Dunne's family life and the political life of Ireland are all too apparent. Chaos and murder resulted from the revolution, and Dunne could only stand watching as his way of understanding the world dissolved. Similarly, he was an aloof father who couldn't tell his son how much | |||||
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Tales of Ballycumber | ||
| 1st Produced: | Abbey Theatre, Dublin | 07 Oct 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571251315 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #102142 | |||
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| A young man approaches an older friend to ask advice on courting. Next day he is found shot and dying with a cryptic suicide note in his hand | |||||
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Varieties of Weeping | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #102143 | |||
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Watercolourist, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Colin Smythe 1983 | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780851054124 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #102252 | |||
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Whistling Psyche | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | Bush Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571224609 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48437 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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| A dark night, an old waiting room and two supposed strangers eager to reach their destinations. In the cold hours that rest between nightfall and daybreak, silent questions prompt unexpected revelations. Two souls share a passion for reform, but only one - Miss Nightingale - has been honoured. The other, Dr Barry, would never receive the same acclaim, but notoriety came after death and for a very different reason . . . | |||||
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White Woman Street | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2252 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | irony of Irish natives, dispossessed on this side of the Atlantic, slaughtering and dispossessing Native Americans on the other | |||||
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