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CHRIS O'CONNELL |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: The Agency (London) Ltd |
He has been Writer in Residence for Paines Plough
Plays by Chris O'Connell
All The Moves | ||
| 1st Produced: | 04 Nov 2010 | |||||
Company: | The Belgrade Community & Education 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 | #115703 | |||
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Genre: | Youth Audiences | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Mark doesn't want to fall out with everyone he looks at, it just happens. BB is top of the class, but shoplifting makes her feel more real. Louise is just out of nappies but already has a failed marriage and two kids under her belt. With a big world moving fast around them, they are straining to make sense of their place in it. But with no one there to teach them all the moves, how do they know they're making the right choices? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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All The Things I'd Do For You | ||
| 1st Produced: | former Fishy Moores' fish and chip shop, Coventry | 14 Jun 2010 | ||||
Company: | Theatre Absolute | |||||
| 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 | #115524 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | (formerly known as PLACEBO) | |||||
Synopsis: | a desperate love story, written specifically for the unique space of the UK's first professional shop front theatre | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Breathe | ||
| 1st Produced: | Shop Front Theatre - a former fish and chip shop in Coventry's City Arcade | 17 Nov 2010 | ||||
Company: | Theatre Absolute and Warwick Arts Centre | |||||
| 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 | #121852 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The production comprises four monologues from four women from the UK, Africa and the USA. The four women "tell stories of struggle that are united by an innocence of hope and a realisation that to live, you have to remember to breathe". "The women and their stories are not deliberately nor overtly interconnected, although they refer to one another in oblique ways," explains Chris O'Connell. "These four disparate women are really united by the stories they tell. There are a number of layers to the play and a variety of ambiguities along the way, but it's essentially about four strong women surviving the pressures of a brutal, modern world." | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Car | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pleasance, London | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Theatre Absolute | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26124 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Part of Trilogy Car, Raw, Kid | |||||
Synopsis: | the adrenaline-fuelled anarchy of a car theft | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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City Stories | ||
| 1st Produced: | Coventry outside Theatre's Absolute's theatre in the City Arcade | 28 Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | Theatre Absolute | |||||
| 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 | #118575 | |||
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Genre: | two short 15 min plays | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | The first features John Parkes, a gladiator from the 18th century who fought 350 battles all over Europe and is buried in the graveyard of St Michael's Church near Coventry Cathedral. The second play is about the experience of two Coventry kids during the Blitz, and is based on true stories about World War II told to O'Connell by his parents. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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cloud: burst | ||
| 1st Produced: | Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Theatre Absolute | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #54708 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Dominic is an ordinary man who is consumed by the glare of the media after his daughter is murdered. When the press attention moves elsewhere, he is left to pick up the pieces. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Coventry | ||
| 1st Produced: | Shop Front Theatre - a former fish and chip shop in Coventry's City Arcade | 13 Jul 2011 | ||||
Company: | Theatre Absolute and Warwick Arts Centre | |||||
| 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 | #129984 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | The theatre is being forced to close after Theatre Absolute was a victim of the Arts Council's spending cuts earlier in 2011. | |||||
Synopsis: | The play "tells the simple but compelling story of a writer lost and drunk on the streets of a city he once 'owned' but which he comes to realise has changed as irrevocably as he has." | |||||
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Edge, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire | 26 Jul 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 | #130488 | |||
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Genre: | piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | This new, fast paced adrenalinefuelled play, from acclaimed writer Chris OConnell (Car, Raw, Kid), is devised in collaboration with young local performers and explores split-second, life altering moments. | |||||
Synopsis: | What if you were on the edge of disaster and your town really was at stake? What would you do during the final hours of Corby? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hang Lenny Pope | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Theatre Absolute | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | 1840027339 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #63471 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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| Can a family find hope for the future? Chris O'Connell's compelling new play explores the possibility that love might return, and redemption be found, for a couple whose lives have been battered by the experience of parenting a violent son. Both touching and funny, Hang Lenny Pope is an urban love story with a truly macabre twist. An inspiring, hard-edged and enthralling production by Theatre Absolute, Hang Lenny Pope began a national tour in March 2007. | |||||
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Hymns | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
Company: | Frantic Assembly | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26125 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Four men reunite to mourn the loss of a close friend, but time and events have had a corrosive effect on this once tight-knit bunch. From beneath the surface bravura a brooding animosity emerges. Their struggle to deal with grief and guilt brings them to breaking point ahere the truth lies waiting. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Kid | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | Theatre Absolute | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26126 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Part of Trilogy Car, Raw, Kid | |||||
Synopsis: | Zoe and Lee are on the run. Bradley wants to be a boy. And K's lost in the Latino spirit. From double Fringe First winners ('Car' & 'Raw'). Kid is a storm of desperation and hope, written by Chris O'Connell. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Raw | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | Theatre Absolute | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26127 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Part of Trilogy Car, Raw, Kid | |||||
Synopsis: | the ritualised violence of teenage gangs | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tall Phoenix | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26128 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 4 smaller parts played by third female | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In a city that rose from devistation, the skyline is changing once again. Now the past clashes with the future in a story of politics, revenge, sex and violence. Niall wants his city to stay the way it is and he'll fight the endless schemes for regeneration. Clare wants power and she'll use her body as well as her mind to get it. Roy's a politician whose past is as dark as the city's. Moira wants revenge and she's back to face her demons. Trackman's witnessed more than he ever wanted to, now he wants to put things straight. Dale believes in the legends of the city and he feels the skyline moving. Tall Phoenix is a hard-hitting drama from award-winning Coventry-based writer Chris O'Connell. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Thyestes | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Royal Shakespeare 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 | #63472 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Zero | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | Theatre Absolute | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781840028812 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73168 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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| They're outside. Even if you write down what I tell you and you get the world to read the book, I don't think they'll be bothered. They're not frightened of the truth. What hope have we got? Chaotic, fast, and furious, Zero is the new play from multi award-winning Theatre Absolute. Written by Chris O'Connell, the play is an explosive and anarchic stare at the ethics of torture, and the curse of censorship. Twenty years from now, in the face of a feast of unabated nihilism, hundreds of camps have been built to torture and gain information at any cost, from those who aim to blow apart the rich pickings of a world that is wealthy beyond its dreams. Alex, a translator at Camp Zero, seeks to tell the world of the brutal regime within the camps, and finds his life is suddenly on the line. Survival is paramount, death may be inevitable, but the truth has to be told. | |||||
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