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DAVID IRELAND |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Alan Brodie Representation Ltd |
David trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and has worked for many theatre companies across the UK including the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Exhange, Manchester, the Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow and the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. He is an Associate Member of Dundee Rep Ensemble. His first play WHAT THE ANIMALS SAY was produced at Oran Mor in Glasgow and subsequently transferred to the Belfast Festival. This was followed by ARGUMENTS FOR TERRORISM, a co-production between Oran Mor and Ransom, then TROUBLE AND SHAME for BBC Radio Scotland. His most recent play, EVERYTHING BETWEEN US, was a co-production between Tinderbox Theatre Company of Belfast and Solas Nua of Washington DC and toured the United States before playing Belfast in October. It will play the Tron Theatre, Glasgow in May. He also contributed material to Tinderbox's SWINGSTATE CABARET 2008, the Traverse's GORDON BROWN: A LIFE IN THE THEATRE and COME TO WHERE I'M FROM for Paines Plough. He is currently under commission to Tinderbox. He divides his time between Belfast and Glasgow.
Plays by David Ireland
Arguments for Terrorism | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ransom Productions in Belfast | 2009 | ||||
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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 | #95877 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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End of Hope, The End of Desire, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 18 April 2011 | |||||
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 | #125977 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of A Play, a Pie and a Pint | |||||
Synopsis: | Two strangers meet over the internet for an evening of casual sex in Belfast. Alan is a student and Janet works at Tesco. Politically and culturally opposites, they've nothing in common except their desire for love and fear of intimacy. So how will they get through the night? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Everything Between Us | ||
| 1st Produced: | Washington DC | Mar 2010 | ||||
Company: | DC based Irish Arts organisation, Solas Nua and tinderbox | |||||
| 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 | #119211 | |||
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Genre: | dark comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | part of True North | |||||
Synopsis: | A taut and fast paced two-woman showdown, Everything Between Us is set in Stormont's Parliament Buildings on the first day of a newly formed Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Northern Ireland. Sandra Richardson is preparing to take her seat on the Commission when her long lost sister Teeni explodes into the chamber and assaults the South African chairwoman, Dikeledi Mashiane. To find out if this is a terrorist plot or just her sister's way of announcing her return to Belfast, Sandra bundles Teeni into a disused room hidden along the corridors of power. With the world's media waiting to invade, Sandra and Teeni must learn very quickly how to talk to each other. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 11 Page 605 | |||||
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Gordon Brown: A Life in Theatre | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh: Traverse Theatre, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 2ED >>> | 06 May 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 | #114051 | |||
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Genre: | guerilla theatre | |||||
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Notes: | written by David Greig, Rona Munro, Peter Arnot, Vicki Liddelle, Gabriel Quigley, Andy Duffy, Alan Wilkins and David Ireland. | |||||
Synopsis: | It's the night before the election and Gordon Brown can't sleep. Tomorrow he will go before the public to finally claim victory or accept defeat. In a fitful night of dreams and memories he casts his mind across a political career that spans two decades at the top. Does he deserve to win? What's at stake if he loses? But most important, what is there left to say? Gordon Brown: A Life in Theatre will be a "freewheeling exploration of contemporary politics from inside the fractured mind of a Prime Minister on verge of an electoral breakdown." The script will be written during election week to capture the immediacy and excitement of the election and the unfolding events of the week. The play will then be performed as staged readings on 6 May itself. Eight Scottish playwrights will work together to produce the finished play which will be directed by one of the playwrights, David Greig. Joining Greig will be Rona Munro, Peter Arnot, Vicki Liddelle, Gabriel Quigley, Andy Duffy, Alan Wilkins and David Ireland. Speaking about the project, Traverse Theatre Artistic Director Dominic Hill, said, "Scottish theatre has a tradition of responding through theatre to events in the political world. Gordon Brown himself was a Board member of the famous political theatre company 7:84 which created, amongst others, the masterpiece The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black Black Oil. I've always wanted the Traverse to sit within the immediate cultural and political life of the nation. All theatre is political in that it is about and affects us, the way we live our lives, our position in society and the world." The performances will take place at the Traverse at lunchtime on election day, and again on election night, where the Traverse Bar Cafe will screen the election results throughout. | |||||
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Place We All Know Well, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #95878 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Welcome to the Hotel Caledonia | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh: Traverse Theatre, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 2ED >>> | 05 May 2011 | ||||
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 | #128613 | |||
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Genre: | election specia | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | written by Peter Arnott, Alan Bissett, David Greig, David Ireland, Rona Munro, Morna Pearson, Alan Wilkins | |||||
Synopsis: | It's election night in the Hotel Caledonia, not that anybody cares. There are two weddings on and one's descending into a fistfight. The bar's littered with exhausted politicians who can't bring themselves to watch the count, the groom's trying to decide which bridesmaid to chat up on the principle of the single transferable vote, and Mr and Mrs Scotland's attempt at a dirty weekend is descending into divorce. At the centre of it all, Svetlana - the Lithuanian receptionist - is trying to decide whether she should stay or go. Can Gavin - the assistant manager with a crush on her the size of a small Baltic Republic - persuade her that Scotlands got a future? Welcome to the Hotel Caledonia will be written in the two days prior to May 5th to capture the immediacy and excitement of the election and the unfolding events of the week. It will be performed script in hand on the day of the election itself. Some of Scotland's most exciting writers will conjure up a cast of dreamers, ranters, visionaries and street preachers all trying to make sense of a country which just can't seem to make up its mind what it wants. Expect comedy, satire and probably a fair degree of bitterness and rage. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 09 Page 485 | |||||
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What the Animals Say | ||
| 1st Produced: | May 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 | #95879 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Notes: | part of ̉ran Mor's groundbreaking lunchtime theatre programme, A Play, A Pie and A Pint | |||||
Synopsis: | Two old schoolfriends bump into each other in the waiting lounge of the Stranraer to Belfast ferry. Jimmy is a professional actor, unemployed and broke. Eddie is a professional footballer and a star player at Celtic. Both men are from Belfast, both now live in Glasgow and both are Protestant. They have a lot more in common, and they're about to find out | |||||
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