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Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage, Dublin >>>

1988

Raven Arts press, Dublin

1989

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Play/Drama

4

4

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Notes:
in Barry Plays 1, Methuen Drama, London >>>

Synopsis:
Mick and Josey are two ould fellas employed on a hill-farm on the Cork-Kerry border, still dreaming of the Wild West and freedom

Olivier Theatre, National Theatre, London >>>

2001

Conceived and commissioned by Angus Mackenchnie

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Play/Drama

8

5

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
One off performance of chain writing to celebrate the National Theatre's 25th anniversary. A scene each from all the authors for a performance on one night

Bewley's Cafe Theatre, Dublin >>>

2002

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Faber & Faber, London

2004

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One Act

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2

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Fred and Jane explores the deep and sustaining friendship between two nuns, Anna and Beatrice, as they recall the trials and joys of religious life.

Octagon Theatre, Bolton, UK

2002

Out of Joint Theatre Company

Faber & Faber, London

2002

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Political Play

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4

3

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Johnny Silvester, is a disgraced Irish elder statesman facing a tribunal's charges of corruption. But, as he sits in his Georgian mansion in the Dublin hinterland, he confronts more immediate accusers. His wife never lets him forget his 15 years of sexual infidelity. His once brilliant son has turned into a suicidal depressive. An undergraduate interviewer taunts him with betrayal of his country. A ghostly politician thrice emerges Banquo-like from the bookcase to promise that the fires of hell are being stoked against his arrival.

Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage, Dublin >>>

2003

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Adaptation

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20

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
In rural Spain, five daughters exist in a cloistered household managed by their widowed mother and demented grandmother. The mother enforces an eight year mourning period, and tensions build.

Abbey Theatre, Abbey Stage, Dublin >>>

1995

Methuen Drama, London >>>

1997

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Play/Drama

17

4

doubling possible

Notes:
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Synopsis:
Lizzie, performing in Weston-super-Mare, is wooed in unorthodox, even distracted fashion by a fellow Kerryman returned from the Boer War and haunted by his experiences in Africa. Won over by his 'wildness', it is only on her arrival in Ireland that she realises he is of the landlord class, one of those whose rent demands led to her own family's rootlessness. The Only True History of Lizzie Finn examines the social and religious prejudices in Ireland of the 1890s in a powerful human history. Like the colourful heroes of the Old West, Barry's young lovers write their private histories of adventure, romance and new beginnings

Playhouse, Oxford

1998

Out of Joint Theatre Company

Methuen Drama, London >>>

1997

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Play/Drama

2

4

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
From her hospital bed in 1950's Dublin, Mai O'Hara recalls her life through morphine-induced memories and hallucinations. Dying of liver cancer caused by alcoholism, Mai reminisces on her youthful promise as a member of the Galway bourgeoisie; the death of one of her children; and of the marriage fueled by liquor, bickering, and remorse, to her husband, Jack-who visits her on occasion as does her daughter, Joanie. Jack's visits to her bedside are a testament to the mutual hatred they share and the mutual dependence they have on each other. Through it all, Mai uses her mordant wit and vanity to pull her out of painful realizations. Once the first woman in Sligo to wear trousers, Mai emerges not only the victim of a broken marriage but a victim of an Ireland in which the Catholic middle-class has been nullified by spiritual and political isolation after the Civil War.

The Damer Hall, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin

1986

Operating Theatre

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Physical/Devised Theatre

Piece

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1

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
In The Pentagonal Dream a single figure speaks with five separate male voices. The voices do not talk directly to one another and appear to be different people, but each is a strand of the whole man. Each voice tries to explain, justify and in the end, understand. The voices can be identified by their order of appearance: Father, Murderer, Storyteller, Fetishist and Messiah/Anti-Christ.

Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage, Dublin >>>

1990

in Barry Plays 1, Methuen Drama, London >>>

1997

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Play/Drama

7

5

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
marks the end of an English culture in Ireland

Tricycle Theatre, London, EUR >>>

2007

Fishamble Theatre Company

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Play/Drama

1

1

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
A pair of interwoven monologues. A Dublin couples marriage has fallen apart following an unchar¬acteristic bout of domestic violence on his part. She - Janet -has blocked him out of her life, but never moved on with it; he -Joe - has sunk, through further violence, heroin-addiction and Aids, to the depths of incarcerated loneliness.
- Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph

Smock Alley Theatre & Studio (formerly known as SS Michael & John's Church and Buildings)

2005

Fishamble Theatre Company

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

Play

One Act

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1 performer

Notes:
A series of short, interconnecting monologues specially commissioned in response to Amnesty International's Stop Violence Against Women Campaign written by Sebastian Barry, Maeve Binchy, Dermot Bolger, Michael Collins, Stella Feehily, Rosalind Haslett, Roisin Ingle, Marian Keyes and Gavin Kostick.

Synopsis:
different items of clothing inspire different interconnecting monologues

Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London >>>

1995

Out of Joint Theatre Company

Methuen Drama, London >>>

1995

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Play/Drama

5

4

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
The fifth play in a cycle of plays about the author's Irish family, THE STEWARD OF CHRISTENDOM is a freely imagined portrait of the author's great-grandfather, Thomas Dunne, the last Chief Superintendent of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, an organization devoted to the British crown but then disbanded after the Irish war of independence of the 1920s. Considered by some to be a traitor to Ireland, and after some seven years of confinement in the County Home, Dunne is a broken man, both mentally and physically. Alone in a barren room, barely clothed and in little control of his faculties, Dunne, at 75, reenacts scenes from his past, taking refuge in the memory of his three daughters and a son who died in World War I. The parallels between Dunne's family life and the political life of Ireland are all too apparent. Chaos and murder resulted from the revolution, and Dunne could only stand watching as his way of understanding the world dissolved. Similarly, he was an aloof father who couldn't tell his son how much

Almeida Theatre, London >>>

2004

Bush Theatre

Faber & Faber, London

2004

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Play/Drama

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2

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
A dark night, an old waiting room and two supposed strangers eager to reach their destinations. In the cold hours that rest between nightfall and daybreak, silent questions prompt unexpected revelations. Two souls share a passion for reform, but only one - Miss Nightingale - has been honoured. The other, Dr Barry, would never receive the same acclaim, but notoriety came after death and for a very different reason . . .

Bush Theatre, London >>>

1992

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Methuen Drama, London >>>

1995

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Play/Drama

6

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
irony of Irish natives, dispossessed on this side of the Atlantic, slaughtering and dispossessing Native Americans on the other