SAM DOWLING (1931 - )
| Nationality: | Irish |
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Plays by Sam Dowling
Agamemnon |
| 1st Produced: | North Pole SE10, London | 1986 | ||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com | 2008 | ||
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| Genre: | version | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Elayne Jude. Loosely based on Greek classic | ||||
Synopsis: Part 1 of Oresteian Trilogy | ||||
Allegiance |
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||
| Company: | Tabard Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Irish history | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: The IRA in London: a family divided | ||||
Antigone |
| 1st Produced: | Praxis Th. Lab, London | 1994 | ||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Greek tragedy | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Version of the Greek tragedy written from group work | ||||
Synopsis: Antigone dies for a forbidden burial | ||||
Avengers, The |
| 1st Produced: | North Pole SE10, London | 1995 | ||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com | 2008 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Elayne Jude. Loosely based on Greek classic | ||||
Synopsis: Part 2 of Oresteian Trilogy | ||||
Bacchae, The |
| 1st Produced: | North Pole Theatre, Greenwich | 1995 | ||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | version of myth | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: version by Barney Ashton and Sam Dowling | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Big Fella ! |
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com | 2009 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Modern History | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Life and death of Michael Collins and friends | ||||
Birth Of The Beast, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||
| Company: | Tabard Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Irish History | - | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Civil Rights, IRA split, birth of the Provos | ||||
Cauldron of Brontes |
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||
| Company: | Tabard Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com | 2007 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Andrea Kealy | ||||
Synopsis: Novelist sisters rise, Brother Branwell falls | ||||
Cenci, The |
| 1st Produced: | North Pole SE10, London | 1997 | ||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com | 2007 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Gothic drama | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: from Shelley | ||||
Synopsis: Small-cast version | ||||
Cherry Orchard |
| 1st Produced: | Boyle, Ireland | 1997 | ||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com | 2008 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Russian drama | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | ||||
Synopsis: Small-cast version set in 1970s Ireland | ||||
Females, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Henryk Jachimowski. Translated by Szczesny Wronski and Sam Dowling | ||||
Synopsis: expressionist collage on female identity | ||||
Flame And The Stone, The |
| 1st Produced: | Boyle, Ireland | 2001 | ||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Ireland's great love story: W.B.Yeats and Maud Gonne McBride | ||||
Ha Ha Ha |
| 1st Produced: | Maidenhead, Berkshire | 2005 | ||
| Company: | 1157 Performance Group | |||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com | 2007 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Improvisations on Coward and Shakespeare | ||||
Hamlet |
| 1st Produced: | Praxis Th. Lab, Boyle | 2001 | ||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com | 2008 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Classic | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Shakespeare. Small cast version | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Ibsen's Dead Awaken |
| 1st Produced: | North Pole Theatre SE10 | 1996 | ||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com | 2007 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Euro Classic | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | may require third female | |||
Notes: Small-cast version | ||||
Synopsis: an artist and his loves | ||||
Ibsen's Hedda Gabler |
| 1st Produced: | Praxis Th. Lab, London | 1996 | ||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Euro Classic | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Small-cast version of the classic | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Importance of Being Earnest |
| 1st Produced: | North Pole SE10, London | 1996 | ||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Period comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Oscar Wilde | ||||
Synopsis: Small-cast version of classic comedy | ||||
Lament for Art O'Laoghaire |
| 1st Produced: | Praxis Th. Lab, Boyle | 1993 | ||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Improv | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: an experimental production based on the Irish poem | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Lovelost |
| 1st Produced: | Camden Irish Centre, London | 2004 | ||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com | 2007 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Abuse in the Irish Industrial Schools. A Mercy nun and a Christian Brother attempt Truth And Reconciliation with their victims | ||||
Macbeth |
| 1st Produced: | Praxis Th. Lab, Boyle | 2001 | ||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com | 2007 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Classic | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Shakespeare | ||||
Synopsis: | ||||
Mountain |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com | 2007 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Abstract social comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Also in a site-specific version named RENEWAL | ||||
Synopsis: Four characters on a mountain | ||||
Outcast |
| 1st Produced: | North Pole SE10, London | 1995 | ||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com | 2008 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Greek myth | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Elayne Jude. Loosely based on Greek classic | ||||
Synopsis: Part 3 of Oresteian Trilogy | ||||
Red Countess Green Cow |
| 1st Produced: | Lewisham Irish Centre, London | 2007 | ||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com | 2007 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Irish History | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Fraught friendship of Countess Markievicz and playwright Sean O'Casey | ||||
Renewal |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Abstract soc | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original title MOUNTAIN | ||||
Synopsis: Abstract social comedy | ||||
Riverman |
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||
| Company: | Tabard Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com | 2007 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Historical drama | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Walter Greaves, naïf painter, Thames boatman: his discovery in 1911 | ||||
Salome |
| 1st Produced: | Royal George SE 8 | 1988 | ||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Biblical drama | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Oscar Wilde | ||||
Synopsis: Small-cast version | ||||
Season In Hell, A |
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||
| Company: | Tabard Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com | 2007 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Lit-biog | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: French poets Verlaine and Rimbaud on the rampage | ||||
Three Sisters |
| 1st Produced: | Boyle, Ireland | 2000 | ||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com | 2007 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Russian comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | ||||
Synopsis: Smallish-cast version | ||||
Trojan Women, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com | 2007 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Greek myth | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written with Nick Warren. Re-named Women and the Trojan Horse | ||||
Synopsis: Re-telling the Greek Tragedy | ||||
Virgin of Notting Hill |
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||
| Company: | Tabard Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Social drama, two 1 Acts | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Frigidity in Mexico/ impotence in London | ||||
Women and the Trojan Horse |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Drama FringeHIGH | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written by Sam Dowling and Nick Warren. VENUE #11: Center for Architecture | ||||
Synopsis: A modern adaptation of , "The Trojan Women,"; Hecuba, Cassandra, Andromache, Helen, and Hera are placed in a time and location where the wars of history meet the wars of the New World Order. These women despise 'regime change'. | ||||