NICOLA MCCARTNEY (1972 - )
| Nationality: | Irish |
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Plays by Nicola McCartney
Cave Dwellers |
| 1st Produced: | Paisley Arts Centre/tour | 2002 | ||
| Company: | 7:84 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: A thought provoking and powerful play about the situation facing asylum seekers and refugees. (world premiere) | ||||
Convictions |
| 1st Produced: | a site-specific work at Crumlin Road, Courthouse, Belfast. | 2000 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Tinderbox, Belfast | 2000 | ||
| 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: | Series of short individual plays | One Act | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 6 |
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Easy |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||
| Company: | lookOUT 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Edinburgh Fringe First Award winning play. A dark comedy about a cabaret singer who gets more than she bargains for on a blind date leads | ||||
Entertaining Angels |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
| Company: | lookOUT 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: written with Lucy McLellan | ||||
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For What We Are About To Receive |
| 1st Produced: | Brunton, Musselburgh | 2000 | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | varies between acts | |||
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Synopsis: story a woman's life told in three parts starting in the present day and moving back to 1950 | ||||
Hanging Tree, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||
| Company: | lookOUT 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Heritage |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 2001 | ||
| 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 | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: music by Gavin Marwick | ||||
Synopsis: Canada, 1914. Sarah McCrea stands on the threshold of womanhood, facing a bright future in a new country. Leaving Ulster behind, Sarah and her family carve out their existence in an emerging community. | ||||
Home |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||
| Company: | lookOUT 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: A tense poetic drama about the need to belong, it centres around the beautifully and painfully entangles lives of four women living in a seaside town on the verge of winter. | ||||
Laundry |
| 1st Produced: | lookOUT, Glasgow | - | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Lifeboat |
| 1st Produced: | Brunton Theatre, Edinburgh | 2002 | ||
| Company: | Catherine Wheels | |||
| 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: | Children/ Family Theatre | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 |
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Notes: Winner of TMA/Equity best production for Children and Young People 2002. | ||||
Synopsis: As Germany increased its attacks on Britain during World War II, a controversial program was enacted to transport British children to safer shores. Beth, Bess, and 90 other children boarded the S.S. City of Benares in the spring of 1940 and embarked on a trip that changed their lives forever. Two actresses portray the girls, their families, and friends on a simple set that strikingly frames each event: from quiet kitchen conversations to playful sibling squabbles to a horrifying torpedo attack amidst the dark, unnerving silence of the icy Atlantic | ||||
Lion Of Kabul |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | Catherine Wheels | |||
| 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 | - | Female | - |
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Millies, The |
| 1st Produced: | Abbots Cross Primary School, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim | 2003 | ||
| Company: | Replay Productions, Belfast, Ireland | |||
| 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: | - | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 9 |
| Parts Other: | doubling possible | |||
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Re:Union |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
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| 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 | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Written by Selma Dimitrijevic, Nicola McCartney, Linda McLean and Haresh Sharma. To celebrate the 300th Anniversary of the Act of Union between Scotland and England and the upcoming Scottish Elections, 7:84 has commissioned four writers - Nicola McCartney, Haresh Sharma, Selma Dimitrijevic & Linda McLean - to examine the theme of Separation and Reconciliation. They will use four momentous historical events as a backdrop: Ireland/England 1921; India/Pakistan 1947; Croatia/Serbia 1991; Scotland/England 2007. | ||||
Synopsis: When should you stay in a partnership and when should you walk away? When is compromise just another word for humiliation? Or are some partnerships worth the struggle? After all, whether it's family, friend or lover, it all needs work. . . | ||||
Replay |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 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 | - | Female | - |
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Sheep Called Skye, A |
| 1st Produced: | Sanquhar Town Hall 1 touring | 2007 | ||
| Company: | National Theatre of Scotland | |||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: from novel by S R Harris | ||||
Synopsis: When is a sheep not a sheep? this is the eternal question one bright-eyed piece of Highland fleece asks herself in Nicola McCartney's adaptation of SR Harris's chil-dren's tale, brought to life in Andrew Panton's irreverent production. Stuck in a bed-and-breakfast, until she gives herself the tasty name of the island she lives on, not quite black sheep Skye hasn't much of a clue who or what she is. So, just like any other restless youth in the throes of an identity crisis, she hitches a ride into the big wide world. Here she sells her wares on the back of some tourist tartan tat flogged on the cheap on Blackpool prom, and meets a very woolly guru before finding her way back home to Jacob. Never before has a sheep appeared to act in such an individual fashion. And with eyelashes not seen since the late American ventriloquist Shari Lewis brought her own snow white sock, Lamb Chop, to life, Skye is a force of nature and some considerable charm. Cut away the cuteness, and McCartney, Panton and a cast led by Allie Cohen, who also designed, built and operates the puppets, is a plain old existential quest. - Neil Cooper | ||||
Standing Wave |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
| Company: | Reeling and Writhing | |||
| 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 | 2 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||
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Transatlantic |
| 1st Produced: | lookOUT, Glasgow | - | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Underworld |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||
| Company: | Frantic Assembly | |||
| 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: | Production | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 |
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