SAM DOWLING   (1931 - )


Sam Dowling
   Nationality:
Irish
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Plays by Sam Dowling

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
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SAM DOWLING
Allegiance
1st Produced:
1988
Company:
Tabard Theatre Company
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Irish history
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Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: The IRA in London: a family divided
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SAM DOWLING
Antigone
1st Produced:
Praxis Th. Lab, London
1994
Company:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Greek tragedy
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Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Version of the Greek tragedy written from group work
Synopsis: Antigone dies for a forbidden burial
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SAM DOWLING
Avengers, The
1st Produced:
North Pole SE10, London
1995
Company:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory
1st Published:
Lulu.com
2008
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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
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SAM DOWLING
Bacchae, The
1st Produced:
North Pole Theatre, Greenwich
1995
Company:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
version of myth
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Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: version by Barney Ashton and Sam Dowling
Synopsis: -
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SAM DOWLING
Big Fella !
1st Produced:
1991
Company:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory
1st Published:
Lulu.com
2009
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Genre:
Modern History
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Parts:
Male
4
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Life and death of Michael Collins and friends
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SAM DOWLING
Birth Of The Beast, The
1st Produced:
1986
Company:
Tabard Theatre Company
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Irish History
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Parts:
Male
8
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Civil Rights, IRA split, birth of the Provos
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SAM DOWLING
Cauldron of Brontes
1st Produced:
1987
Company:
Tabard Theatre Company
1st Published:
Lulu.com
2007
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written with Andrea Kealy
Synopsis: Novelist sisters rise, Brother Branwell falls
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SAM DOWLING
Cenci, The
1st Produced:
North Pole SE10, London
1997
Company:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory
1st Published:
Lulu.com
2007
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Genre:
Gothic drama
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Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: from Shelley
Synopsis: Small-cast version
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SAM DOWLING
Cherry Orchard
1st Produced:
Boyle, Ireland
1997
Company:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory
1st Published:
Lulu.com
2008
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Genre:
Russian drama
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Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov
Synopsis: Small-cast version set in 1970s Ireland
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SAM DOWLING
Females, The
1st Produced:
1992
Company:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory
1st Published:
-
-
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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
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SAM DOWLING
Flame And The Stone, The
1st Produced:
Boyle, Ireland
2001
Company:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Ireland's great love story: W.B.Yeats and Maud Gonne McBride
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SAM DOWLING
Ha Ha Ha
1st Produced:
Maidenhead, Berkshire
2005
Company:
1157 Performance Group
1st Published:
Lulu.com
2007
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Improvisations on Coward and Shakespeare
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SAM DOWLING
Hamlet
1st Produced:
Praxis Th. Lab, Boyle
2001
Company:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory
1st Published:
Lulu.com
2008
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Genre:
Classic
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Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Shakespeare. Small cast version
Synopsis:
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SAM DOWLING
Ibsen's Dead Awaken
1st Produced:
North Pole Theatre SE10
1996
Company:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory
1st Published:
Lulu.com
2007
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Genre:
Euro Classic
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Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
may require third female
Notes: Small-cast version
Synopsis: an artist and his loves
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SAM DOWLING
Ibsen's Hedda Gabler
1st Produced:
Praxis Th. Lab, London
1996
Company:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Euro Classic
-
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Small-cast version of the classic
Synopsis:
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SAM DOWLING
Importance of Being Earnest
1st Produced:
North Pole SE10, London
1996
Company:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Period comedy
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Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Oscar Wilde
Synopsis: Small-cast version of classic comedy
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SAM DOWLING
Lament for Art O'Laoghaire
1st Produced:
Praxis Th. Lab, Boyle
1993
Company:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Improv
-
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: an experimental production based on the Irish poem
Synopsis:
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SAM DOWLING
Lovelost
1st Produced:
Camden Irish Centre, London
2004
Company:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory
1st Published:
Lulu.com
2007
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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
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SAM DOWLING
Macbeth
1st Produced:
Praxis Th. Lab, Boyle
2001
Company:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory
1st Published:
Lulu.com
2007
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Genre:
Classic
-
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Shakespeare
Synopsis:
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SAM DOWLING
Mountain
1st Produced:
1990
Company:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory
1st Published:
Lulu.com
2007
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Genre:
Abstract social comedy
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Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Also in a site-specific version named RENEWAL
Synopsis: Four characters on a mountain
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SAM DOWLING
Outcast
1st Produced:
North Pole SE10, London
1995
Company:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory
1st Published:
Lulu.com
2008
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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
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SAM DOWLING
Red Countess Green Cow
1st Produced:
Lewisham Irish Centre, London
2007
Company:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory
1st Published:
Lulu.com
2007
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Genre:
Irish History
-
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Fraught friendship of Countess Markievicz and playwright Sean O'Casey
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SAM DOWLING
Renewal
1st Produced:
1990
Company:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Abstract soc
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Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original title MOUNTAIN
Synopsis: Abstract social comedy
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SAM DOWLING
Riverman
1st Produced:
1985
Company:
Tabard Theatre Company
1st Published:
Lulu.com
2007
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Genre:
Historical drama
-
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Walter Greaves, naïf painter, Thames boatman: his discovery in 1911
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SAM DOWLING
Salome
1st Produced:
Royal George SE 8
1988
Company:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Biblical drama
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Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Oscar Wilde
Synopsis: Small-cast version
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SAM DOWLING
Season In Hell, A
1st Produced:
1989
Company:
Tabard Theatre Company
1st Published:
Lulu.com
2007
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Genre:
Lit-biog
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Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: French poets Verlaine and Rimbaud on the rampage
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SAM DOWLING
Three Sisters
1st Produced:
Boyle, Ireland
2000
Company:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory
1st Published:
Lulu.com
2007
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Genre:
Russian comedy
-
Parts:
Male
5
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov
Synopsis: Smallish-cast version
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SAM DOWLING
Trojan Women, The
1st Produced:
1991
Company:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory
1st Published:
Lulu.com
2007
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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
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SAM DOWLING
Virgin of Notting Hill
1st Produced:
1985
Company:
Tabard Theatre Company
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Social drama, two 1 Acts
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Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Frigidity in Mexico/ impotence in London
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SAM DOWLING
Women and the Trojan Horse
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory
1st Published:
-
-
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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'.
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