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BRIAN CAMPBELL (1960 - 2005) |
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Nationality: Irish Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Born in Coleraine, Brian Campbell moved with his family to Newry in 1968. He graduated from Liverpool University in 1981. Arrested in 1986, he was sentenced to fifteen years for possession of explosives. In Long Kesh he studied for a second degree in Social Sciences and was the founding editor of 'An Glór Gafa' (the Captive Voice), a magazine of prisoners' writings. He is a former editor of 'An Phoblacht' and news editor of 'Daily Ireland'. A walker, former footballer and hurler, he collapsed and died after a taking a run on October 8th 2005.
Plays by Brian Campbell
Cold House, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Amharclann na Carraige/Theatre on the Rock, Belfast | 03 Jun 2003 | ||||
Company: | DubbleJoint Theatre Company, Belfast | |||||
| 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 | #5776 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Brian Campbell, Laurence McKeown | |||||
Synopsis: | A former RUC officer and his wife discover that the man working in their kitchen is an IRA ex-prisoner who killed a policeman. A Cold House addresses difficulties in the Northern Ireland peace process and asks what truths must be faced if people are to move forward in a society riven with conflict. | |||||
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Des | ||
| 1st Produced: | Amharclann na Carraige/Theatre on the Rock, Belfast | 29 Mar 2000 | ||||
Company: | DubbleJoint Theatre Company, Belfast | |||||
| 1st Published: | Glandore Publishing, Belfast, Ireland, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5777 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Des tells the story of the West Belfast priest, Des Wilson. In 1966, Wilson was removed from his teaching post at St Malachy's College and sent to St John's on the Falls Road. As a junior curate with responsibility for Whiterock-Ballymurphy, one of the most deprived areas in Western Europe, he fought the church establishment in support of its people. | |||||
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Laughter of Our Children, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Amharclann na Carraige/Theatre on the Rock, Belfast | 02 May 2001 | ||||
Company: | DubbleJoint Theatre Company, Belfast | |||||
| 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 | #5778 | |||
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 | 8 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Brian Campbell, Laurence McKeown | |||||
Synopsis: | In a small village in the North of Ireland in 1981, Mary and George try to come to terms with their son Peadar's decision to volunteer for the hunger strike. The local school teacher decides to take a lead role in organising a local campaign. Two old school friends of Peadar, now at Queen's University, must try to come to terms with where they stand. Myles, the GAA coach, wants to keep his head down and ignore the situation and Father Boyle, the local priest, struggles to control his parishioners. | |||||
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Voyage Of No Return | ||
| 1st Produced: | 22 Mar 2005 | |||||
Company: | DubbleJoint Theatre Company, Belfast | |||||
| 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 | #45188 | |||
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 | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | about racism in contemporary Northern Ireland and about the complex position of the Irish as both slaves and slaveowners in 1760s Montserrat | |||||
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