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JOHN O'DONOVAN (1921 - 1985) |
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Nationality: Irish Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Plays by John O'Donovan |
Change Of Mind | ||
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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 | #44416 | |||
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Genre: | full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Copperfaced Jack | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1963 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | in Seven Irish Plays, 1946-1964, ed Robert Hogan, University of Minnesota Press, 1967 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #44417 | |||
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Genre: | full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 17 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | It is 1798 in Dublin and corruption in the legal profession is rife. John Scott(Lord Clonmel), the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland is nicknamed 'the hanging judge' and 'Copperfaced Jack', the latter because of the colour of his face - the result of too much brandy drinking. In a series of flashbacks, with fleeting moments of conscience about his corruption the Judge reassesses his life, where we see the pathetic case of Fennessy, sentenced to death for sheep stealing, who has to build his own coffin to earn some money to send to his family; the battle with the Attorney General over the condemned rebel leader, Peter Shanks; a transient love affair with the mother of a condemned man. | |||||
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Dearly Beloved Roger | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1967 | |||||
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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 | #44418 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 23 | Female | 10 | ||
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Synopsis: | An historical piece following the life of Jonathan Swift from the cradle to the grave. | |||||
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Half-Millionaire, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1954 | |||||
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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 | #44419 | |||
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Genre: | Farce, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | In this farce, Owen Reid, editor of the newspaper, in between making advances on his secretary, Phyllis, is in conflict with his staff over the political pressures of the paper's owner, Augustus Belton. The endemic bribery in political life reaches out unsuccessfully to encompass the Taoiseach as we watch the machinations of poiliticians and government officials in their perennial search for power. | |||||
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Less We Are Together, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1957 | |||||
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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 | #44420 | |||
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Genre: | full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 6 | ||
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Synopsis: | In this blend of farce, melodrama and satire the newly elected Taoiseach has offered the people a new answer to the question of Northern Ireland and partition - Rejoin the United Kingdom. | |||||
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Shaws of Synge Street, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1960 | |||||
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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 | #44421 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 14 | Female | 6 | ||
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Synopsis: | O'Donovan deals with the early part of Shaw's Life, opening on a Christmas Eve in Synge Street, Dublin, Shaw's birtrhplace. Mr. Shaw (Father) is portrayed as a feckless person and inadequate parent, while Mrs. Shaw abandons both her husband and son to pursue a career in London. The play demonstrates the effect Shaw's family had on his adolescence and the anarchic spirit of his creative genius. | |||||
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