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TOM SWIFT |
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Nationality: Irish Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Plays by Tom Swift |
Beware Of The Storybook Wolves | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dublin: The Ark, A Cultural Centre for Children, 11a Eustace St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 >>> | 05 Feb 2008 | ||||
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 | #117180 | |||
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Genre: | TYA | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Based on the book by Lauren Child | |||||
Synopsis: | Each night Herb is read a bedtime story. But one night his mother leaves the story book in his bedroom - are there really wolves lurking in it ready to pounce? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Butterfly Ranch, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Smock Alley Theatre & Studio (formerly known as SS Michael & John's Church and Buildings), Dublin | 26 Apr 2004 | ||||
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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 | #57856 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | Convergence Festival, Dublin | |||||
Synopsis: | Blood, violence and butterflies. . .Performed on a spectacular, vertical stage - purpose built in a new space at SS Michael & John in Temple Bar. 'The Butterfly Ranch' is the tale of a mystery boy who quite literally falls from the sky into the muddy, murky and violent world of Jed Senior. On Jed's ranch, swine feed on butterflies, Latvian farmhands run covert internet scams and the rule of the gun is law. But the boy's eagerness to learn Jed's etiquette of violence upsets the balance of power, leading to a bloody conflict which leaves no one on the butterfly ranch unscathed. 'The Butterfly Ranch' is a dark and deeply political meditation on life's repeating cycles of violence. | |||||
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Candide | ||
| 1st Produced: | Smock Alley Theatre & Studio (formerly known as SS Michael & John's Church and Buildings), Dublin | 23 Sep 2002 | ||||
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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 | #33826 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Adapted by Tom Swift and Jo Mangan from Voltaire's Candide. Dublin Theatre Festival | |||||
Synopsis: | Gulliver's Travels meets The Third Policeman in this (quite literally) half-arsed comedy. Naive young philosopher Candide is expelled from the Castle Thunder-ten-Tronckt and sets off around the globe in search of his sweetheart Cunegonde. On the way he meets the daughter of Pope Urban X (a lady with one less buttock than usual), monkey-loving Amazonians and a whirling dervish who may or may not hold the secret of life. The Performance Corporation's hugely energetic production is a brilliantly surreal satire on war, religion, greed and gardening. | |||||
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Dr Ledbetter's Experiment | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland | 08 Apr 2004 | ||||
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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 | #56002 | |||
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Genre: | Promenade Performance | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 9 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The doctor is unwell. Doubt and delusion trouble his waking hours. Darwin prowls through his dreams. And deep in the creaking underbelly of the anatomy theatre an experiment is taking place. Put on your headphones for a gothic promenade to a place where morality and science do battle for the soul of Dr Saul Ledbetter. Macabre science, murky morals and sheer bloody murder lurk round every corner. But beware - sometimes experiments go too far. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Drive By | ||
| 1st Produced: | Poolbeg Power Station, Dublin | 27 Jun 2006 | ||||
Company: | Performance Corporation and Once-Off Productions | |||||
| 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 | #55550 | |||
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Genre: | Drive In Theatre | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Performance Corporation and Once-Off Productions take a concept (and the maximum audience capacity is up to a whopping 56) with this cleverly conceived exercise in drive-in theatre, playing in a disused car park as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival. Punters arrive by car, get a free windscreen clean, and instructions to tune their car radio to a certain frequency. The audience's cars line up to face three parked hot rods. Music, sound effects, and recorded narration come through the radio, as one of the cars revs up and does a squealing circuit, showing off its inch-from-the-ground suspension, sexy indoor lighting, and phat spoiler. But if only they had pimped the script as well as they have the rides. Tom Swift's 25-minute text is a series of loosely connected scenes about boy-racer culture. The action takes place around the car park while the audience stay in their own vehicles, the dialogue relayed over the radio. Two men drink tea and talk with ironic pompousness about different car models. A sliver of a plot develops about a hot chick who takes up with one of the blokes. There are a couple of glancing, in-joke references to "Gay" (Byrne, chatshow host and spokesman for road safety). The simple, moving final moments bring home the tragic consequences of joyriding gone wrong. But is the company celebrating or condemning kid racers? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lizzie Lavelle and the Vanishing of Emlyclough | ||
| 1st Produced: | Staged in a natural amphitheatre in the sand dunes of Belmullet, Co. Mayo. | 27 Jul 2007 | ||||
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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 | #117181 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Two towns at war - Emlyclough South and Emlyclough North - though why no one knows. Then someone from one town falls in love with someone from the other. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Nose, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 11 Nov 2008 | |||||
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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 | #128433 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Adaptation of the short story 'The Nose' by Nikolai Gogol. | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of a self-obsessed playboy who gets trapped in a surreal face-off with his own nose. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Paka | ||
| 1st Produced: | Nairobi, Kenya | 2005 | ||||
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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 | #57859 | |||
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Genre: | Devised Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The objective of the project was to engage in a collaborative process involving Irish theatre company The Performance Corporation and Kenyan company The Amani People's Theatre. The aim of this process was to create a play, designed to address the social issues affecting a marginalized community living on Kenya's south coast. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Powerpoint | ||
| 1st Produced: | Camden Court Hotel, Dublin | 07 Sep 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 | #128434 | |||
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Genre: | site specific | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of the Absolut Dublin Fringe Festival 2009. | |||||
Synopsis: | corporate cultural - inspirational powerpoint! | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Seven Deadly Sins, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 22 Sep 2003 | |||||
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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 | #33825 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Adapted by Tom Swift and Jo Mangan | |||||
Synopsis: | Satan swoops into Garadice city, a wonderful place that rhymes with paradise. His plan is to corrupt the innocent inhabitants by means of Shock TV. He comes armed with the ultimate weapons of mass corruption: Greed, Lust, Envy, Pride, Sloth, Anger and Gluttony. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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State Of Play | ||
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly, London | 1989 | ||||
Company: | Yorkshire 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 | #70109 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Ian Hartley and Toby Swift | |||||
Synopsis: | examines the less attractive side of the male ego, focusing on that male bastion, the cricket match. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Whereabouts | ||
| 1st Produced: | various through Temple Bar, Dublin | 13 Jul 2006 | ||||
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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 | #57858 | |||
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Genre: | Series of short individual plays | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 11 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible, casting varies | |||||
Notes: | written by Shane Carr, John Cronin, Louise Lowe, Belinda McKeown, Colin Murphy, Anna Newell, Jack Olohan, Jody O'Neill, Jacqueline Strawbridge, Tom Swift. | |||||
Synopsis: | conjectures on who is saying what at the next table in a restaurant - we've all done it ! | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Yokohama Delegation, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Desart House, New Street, Kilkenny | 13 Aug 2005 | ||||
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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 | #57857 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 17 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland | |||||
Synopsis: | Battling the Cyclops security guard, eluding the Sexy Sirens of the typing pool and braving the 'underworld' of R&D. . .it's just another day at the office for our down-at-heel exec Jason as he embarks on a funny, futuristic, flamboyant quest for the mysterious 'Golden Fleece'. The Yokohama Delegation is an event for sore eyes. The audience is plunged into a darkened office block, where mascara-drenched eyelashes flicker in time to a syncopated beat, and the secretaries who inhabit the mythical landscape between clock-in and clock-out kick off their high heels for risque dance sequences. This uproarious quest melds Greek myth and technicolour office comedies with The Performance Corporation's signature brand of energetically humourous physical/visual theatre. It features an original retro-futuristic music score, choreography and the company's signature high-tech box of sound and lighting tricks. | |||||
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