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CONOR MCPHERSON (1971 - ) |
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Nationality: Irish Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Curtis Brown Group Ltd |
Conor McPherson was born in Dublin in 1971. He attended UCD where he began to write and direct plays. Awards include the Stewart Parker award, Meyer Whitworth award, Pearson TV writer in Residence award, Evening Standard award, Critic's circle award and f
Plays by Conor McPherson
Birds, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Gate, Dublin | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Gate Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #103087 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Based on the short story by Daphne Du Maurier | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Come On Over | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in McPherson Collected Plays 2, Nick Hern Books, London, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23704 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | two chairs | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of Matthew and Margaret, childhood sweethearts who are now in their fifties. He is a Jesuit who investigates miracles for the Vatican; she runs a rural bed and breakfast. When he is sent to see the 400-year-old remains of a girl found in their h | |||||
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Dublin Carol | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | in Conor McPherson Four Plays, Nick Hern Books, London, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23705 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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| centers around John Plunkett, an undertaker in his late fifties. The play is divided into three scenes, all of which take place in his office in Dublin on Christmas Eve. In the morning we see John interacting with Mark, a twenty-year-old boy who is helping John while the boss, Noel, is in hospital having tests. John and Mark return from a funeral service, and John regales Mark with stories from his past, and how he met Noel, who is incidentally, Mark's uncle. Noel saved John from a life of alcoholism and gave him a job here. John seems anxious for Mark to keep him company this morning, and he only allows him to leave when the whiskey he is knocking back runs out. The next scene sees the arrival of Mary, John's estranged daughter who's in her thirties. She implores John to come and see Helen, his wife and her mother. She is sick in hospital and has asked to see John. John abandoned his family twenty years ago, and his feelings of guilt and anguish make him turn angrily on Mary. But he finally agrees to go. Mar | |||||
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Good Thief, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
Company: | Fly By night Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "This Lime Tree Bower", Hern, London, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23706 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of a paid thug's flight from his bosses and the guards across Ireland with, in his care, the wife and daughter of the man he is supposed to threaten | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Inventing Fortune's Wheel | ||
| 1st Produced: | Firken Crane Centre, Shandon, Cork | 1994 | ||||
Company: | Fly By night Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #23707 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Kevin, an engineering graduate, returns from work on an irrigation project in Melai, without the answers he went there to find. The play follows the first days of Kevin's return to Ireland. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Light in the Window of Industry, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | International Bar, Dublin | 1993 | ||||
Company: | Fly By night Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #23708 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Joe's grant from the IDA has stopped and it looks like his graphic design agency will fold. He must fire his one employee, Jill, but how can he do it diplomatically? What starts with Joe's fatuous banter leads to something more serious | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Michelle Pfeiffer | ||
| 1st Produced: | University College Dublin | 1990 | ||||
Company: | DramSoc | |||||
| 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 | #38897 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Port Authority | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | Gate Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23709 | |||
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Genre: | 15 monologues One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| In Port Authority, we meet Kevin, Dermot and Joe, three generations of Dublin men. Their stories, told by means of three interlocking monologues, explore the possibilities they have had in their lives for happiness and love. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Radio Play - Concerning Communication | ||
| 1st Produced: | International Bar, Dublin | 1992 | ||||
Company: | Fly By night Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #23710 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Through the night, Joe Walshe presents 'the John & Jane Doe show' on DBR+J27 107.1FM where he tries very hard to highlight the richness and glamour of the lives of ordinary folk: housewife Anne, superintendent Brian, poet Kevin, theology guru Eddie, and recently-freed pal Bob. Meanwhile, the rest of the world - pubescent boys, call girls, technicians, bar-stool intellectuals, nurses, and louts - carries on undeterred. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rum And Vodka | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
Company: | Fly By night Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "This Lime Tree Bower", Hern, London, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23711 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A young Irishman with a drink problem tells of three momentous days in his life when his drab nine-to-five existence is obliterated in an escapist binge which threatens to engulf him. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Scenes Federal | ||
| 1st Produced: | University College Dublin | 1991 | ||||
Company: | DramSoc | |||||
| 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 | #38898 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Seafarer, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854599490 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55335 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - | ||
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| It's Christmas Eve and Sharky has returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, ageing brother whos recently gone blind. Old drinking buddies Ivan and Nicky are holed up at the house too, hoping to play some cards. But with the arrival of a stranger from the distant past, the stakes are raised ever higher. In fact, Sharky may be playing for his very soul. . .."I hope your eye is in. I hope your game is up. Because to tell you the truth, I'd love a run for my money just once. Or maybe you just feel like giving in. Maybe it's a relief to finally be set free from the jaws of God's wilderness, is it?" | |||||
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Shining City | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39145 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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| Ian has left the priesthood to become a therapist. John is one of his first clients. John's wife has been killed in a car accident, and he keeps seeing her ghost. As John recovers with Ian's help, Ian himself is going under with troubles of his own. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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St Nicholas | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
Company: | Bush Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23712 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A cynical and jaded drama critic falls for a beautiful young actress. In pursuing her he meets a group of modern day vampires, who offer him eternal life. His part of the bargain is to feed their bloodlust | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Stars Lose Their Glory, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | International Bar, Dublin | 1994 | ||||
Company: | Fly By night Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #23713 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Neil and Stephen are two opinionated reviewers for a small publishing house. Chris, their boss, lets it drop to Neil that it might be in his interest to recommend a 'tell-all' rock memoir. Stephen, on the other hand, thinks the book should be used as lavatory paper. How can Neil convince Stephen of the book's merits without compromising his integrity? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Taking Stock | ||
| 1st Produced: | University College Dublin | 1989 | ||||
Company: | DramSoc | |||||
| 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 | #38896 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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This Lime Tree Bower | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | Fly by Night Theatre Company and Iomha Ildanach | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "This Lime Tree Bower", Hern, London, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23714 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In overlapping monologues, three young men from a small seaside town near Dublin tell of their inextricably linked lives and the eventful week which was to change things for good. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Veil, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, Lyttelton, South Bank, London. SE1 9PX >>> | 04 Oct 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848422025 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #128920 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
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| May 1822, rural Ireland. The defrocked Reverend Berkeley arrives at the crumbling former glory of Mount Prospect House to accompany seventeen-year-old Hannah to England. She is to be married off to a Marquis in order to resolve the debts of her mother's estate. However, compelled by the strange voices that haunt his beautiful young charge and a fascination with the psychic current that pervades the house, Berkeley proposes a seance, the consequences of which are catastrophic. She says that sometimes, while she plays the piano, she can hear someone. . . singing. Or crying. I forget which. Set around a haunted house hemmed in by a restive, starving populace, Conor McPherson's new play weaves Ireland's troubled colonial history into a transfixing story about the search for love, the transcendental and the circularity of time. | |||||
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Weir, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23715 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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| In a bar in rural Ireland, the landlord and three regulars attempt to spook a young woman who has recently arrived from Dublin. But as the conversation moves on it is Valerie who scares the men. | |||||
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