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2009

TheatreRats

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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

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What happens when elementary schoolers get their hands on a classic English farce about a drunken Irishman in pre-revolutionary France? Find out as TheatreRats takes on one of theatres first prominent playwrights most heralded works, Catherine Gore's King O'Neil. It isn't a far stretch to say that the plot of the 1835 King O'Neil is like that of a soap opera or an evening TV melodramaand it isnt that dissimilar from the type of tales many children spin by friends as children. There's a man in love with a woman he cannot have; a step-mother out for her own well being; a loving father who is misled; a daughter forced to marry a man she doesn't love to save face; and so on and so forth. All of which led TheatreRats to ask: how might children (or at least actors in character as young children) recreate this play for their friends using a few props and their bursting imaginations?
- press release