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DERMOT BOLGER (1959 - ) |
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Nationality: Irish Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Curtis Brown Group Ltd |
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Plays by Dermot Bolger |
April Bright | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3726 | |||
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Genre: | Black Farce Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | When newly-weds Sean and Anna move into a terraced house in Dublin, the lives of its previous owners and the tragedies that befell them continue to haunt the space. | |||||
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Baby Jean | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
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 | #3727 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Blinded By The Light | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3728 | |||
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Genre: | Historical Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Mormon missionaries scuttle ambition to be left alone and eat kebabs. | |||||
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Consenting Adults | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | Fishamble Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Island Books, Dublin, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3729 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | This play was originally produced, along with five other one act plays, as part of the Y2K Festival | |||||
Synopsis: | Consenting Adults tells the story of a couple who respond to a contact ad in a magazine and enter into a sexual adventure of role-playing and risk-taking in a hotel bedroom. The lines between fantasy, memory, reality and guilt become dangerously intertwined as true identities are slowly revealed. | |||||
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Dublin Bloom, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Phiadelphia | 1994 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Island Books, Dublin, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3730 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | from Ulysees by James Joyce | |||||
Synopsis: | A brilliant re-imagining of Joyce's world in theatrical terms" Fintan O'Toole | |||||
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From These Green Heights | ||
| 1st Produced: | AXIS - Ballymun Arts and Community Resource Centre | 2004 | ||||
Company: | AXIS - Ballymun Arts and Community Resource Centre | |||||
| 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 | #49119 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 6 | ||
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Synopsis: | This play follows the story of Dessie from the 1960's, when as a child he first glimpsed the Ballymun Towers amid the fields of North Dublin, to the night in 2004 when he helps his young daughter pack to leave the flat that has been his family home. | |||||
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Holy Ground, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
Company: | Gate Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Dermot Bolger Plays 1, Methuen, London, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3731 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | The Holy Ground was originally produced alongside 'In High Germany' (listed separately) under the umbrella title of ''The Tramway End', an evening of two one act plays by Dermot Bolger' | |||||
Synopsis: | With bittersweet humor, Monica, a recent widow, tries to come to terms with the sadness of her marriage to a man who couldn't give her children. Unable to face the stigma of being a childless couple in post-colonial Catholic Ireland, Monica's husband, Myles, grows increasingly cruel and distant, rejecting her physically and emotionally. Now, as she empties the house of his papers and possessions, Monica relives their lives together, a life that began with such tender promise. With heart-rending honesty, she recounts the pain and confusion, the long empty years of loneliness and, in a chilling finale, her own tragic act of desperation. But how will she live her life from now on? Will she be able to loosen the grip of ideological rigor mortis? What identity, if any, can she forge for herself? With his often-elliptical wit Bolger manages to make the play's stultifying marriage stand for much more than a domestic sorry tale. A metaphor for Ireland itself and for what it means to be Irish, The Holy Ground sheds ironic light on such traditional virtues as staying in place, maintaining traditions, and holding fast to certain religious beliefs. In the course of the one-hour play Bolger deconstructs the nationalist myth of the submissive, suffering, maternal Irish woman. | |||||
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In High Germany | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
Company: | Gate Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Island Books, Dublin, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3732 | |||
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Genre: | play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Set during the 1988 European Football Championships, In High Germany explores the dilemma facing Irish international soccer fans who live outside Ireland and for whom following Ireland on their European excursions has become a matter of personal as well as national identity. The play looks past the ole mania to explore the lonely, surreal and increasingly sad dilemma of the best pals who now see each other only at internationals and part company at railway stations, pensiones or cafes to return to their new lives and new homes abroad. | |||||
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Lament For Arthur Cleary, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||||
Company: | Wet Paint Arts | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The Crack In The Emerald, Nick Hern Books, London, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3733 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | an examination of Ireland in the 1980s - its moneylenders, its unemployment, its exhausting and debilitating emigration. | |||||
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Monolugues | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1990 | ||||
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 | #3734 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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One Last White Horse | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
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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 | #3735 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | There's a hole in Eddie's heart, the void - filled as a child by his mother's God - that is perhaps at the heart of the contemporary experience, the inability to find anything to fully believe in of belong to. That spiritual vacuum is finally filled for him with heroin, the drug which a whole generation of lost Dubliners turned to. | |||||
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Parting Glass, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | P.S. 122 | 21 Jul 2010 | ||||
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 | #117004 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | This show is part of the undergroundzero festival. Here's the official blurb: Three friends all pushing 50 gather in the Stade de France on November 18, 2009 to cheer on Ireland in the World Cup playoff, only to see their hopes of a championship dashed by French soccer star Thierry Henry's left hand. With caustic wit, Irish playwright Dermot Bolger gives sharp insights into the last two decades of Irish history through these stories. | |||||
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Passion of Jerome, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #3736 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
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Synopsis: | Jerome Furlong is a successful businessman whose life has been carefully constructed from layer upon layer of lies. That is until, in the squalid flat he is using to have an affair, he is suddenly confronted with a manifestation of the supernatural beyond both his comprehension and control. | |||||
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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 | #72517 | |||
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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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Walking the Road | ||
| 1st Produced: | Players Loft, NY | 12 Sep 2009 | ||||
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 | #103505 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Dermot Bolger's play, Walking the Road, is an act of repatriation for Ireland's forgotten heroes, seeking to give voice to men whose lives and untimely deaths have traditionally undermined the linear narrative of nationalist Irish history. But like thousands of fellow Irishmen who died in that war, he was condemned to another limbo, the limbo of never having their stories publicly told. Hovering in the half-light of memories, it vividly and imaginatively tries to follow Ledwidge on one final journey after his death as he finds himself once again walking the road that he once walked. Unseen, they walk alongside him, but where are they walking to and will any of them ever reach home? | |||||
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