DERMOT BOLGER (1959 - )
| Nationality: | Irish |
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Plays by Dermot Bolger
April Bright |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | 1997 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Black Farce | Farce | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: When newly-weds Sean and Anna move into a terraced house in Dublin, the lives of its previous owners and the tragedies that befell them continue to haunt the space. | ||||
Baby Jean |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Blinded By The Light |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | 1997 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Historical Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Mormon missionaries scuttle ambition to be left alone and eat kebabs. | ||||
Consenting Adults |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
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| 1st Published: | New Island Books, Dublin | 2001 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: This play was originally produced, along with five other one act plays, as part of the Y2K Festival | ||||
Synopsis: Consenting Adults tells the story of a couple who respond to a contact ad in a magazine and enter into a sexual adventure of role-playing and risk-taking in a hotel bedroom. The lines between fantasy, memory, reality and guilt become dangerously intertwined as true identities are slowly revealed. | ||||
Dublin Bloom, A |
| 1st Produced: | Phiadelphia | 1994 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | New Island Books, Dublin | 1994 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: from Ulysees by James Joyce | ||||
Synopsis: A brilliant re-imagining of Joyce's world in theatrical terms" Fintan O'Toole | ||||
From These Green Heights |
| 1st Produced: | AXIS - Ballymun Arts and Community Resource Centre | 2004 | ||
| Company: | AXIS - Ballymun Arts and Community Resource Centre | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: This play follows the story of Dessie from the 1960's, when as a child he first glimpsed the Ballymun Towers amid the fields of North Dublin, to the night in 2004 when he helps his young daughter pack to leave the flat that has been his family home. | ||||
Holy Ground, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||
| Company: | Gate Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | in Dermot Bolger Plays 1, Methuen, London | 2000 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: The Holy Ground was originally produced alongside 'In High Germany' (listed separately) under the umbrella title of ''The Tramway End', an evening of two one act plays by Dermot Bolger' | ||||
Synopsis: Monica's unhappy, childless marriage ended when she poisoned her husband Myles, a man who grew increasingly cruel and distant over the years. She has just returned from his funeral and is sorting through his possessions. During her monologue she is exhausted, as much from the activities of this funeral day as she is by her revelation. | ||||
In High Germany |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||
| Company: | Gate Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | New Island Books, Dublin | 1999 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Set during the 1988 European Football Championships, In High Germany explores the dilemma facing Irish international soccer fans who live outside Ireland and for whom following Ireland on their European excursions has become a matter of personal as well as national identity. The play looks past the olé mania to explore the lonely, surreal and increasingly sad dilemma of the best pals who now see each other only at internationals and part company at railway stations, pensiones or cafes to return to their new lives and new homes abroad. | ||||
Lament For Arthur Cleary, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||
| Company: | Wet Paint Arts | |||
| 1st Published: | in The Crack In The Emerald, Nick Hern Books, London | 1990 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: an examination of Ireland in the 1980s - its moneylenders, its unemployment, its exhausting and debilitating emigration. | ||||
Monolugues |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1990 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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One Last White Horse |
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: There's a hole in Eddie's heart, the void - filled as a child by his mother's God - that is perhaps at the heart of the contemporary experience, the inability to find anything to fully believe in of belong to. That spiritual vacuum is finally filled for him with heroin, the drug which a whole generation of lost Dubliners turned to. | ||||
Passion of Jerome, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||
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| 1st Published: | 1999 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If the Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased direct, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | doubling possible | |||
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Synopsis: Jerome Furlong is a successful businessman whose life has been carefully constructed from layer upon layer of lies. That is until, in the squalid flat he is using to have an affair, he is suddenly confronted with a manifestation of the supernatural beyond both his comprehension and control. | ||||
She Was Wearing. . . |
| 1st Produced: | Smock Alley Theatre & Studio (formerly known as SS Michael & John's Church and Buildings) | 2005 | ||
| Company: | Fishamble Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 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 | ||||