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Joe Brennan

JOE BRENNAN

  
Nationality:    Irish
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Joe Brennan is a writer and storyteller from Ireland. He grew up in Wexford Town and now lives in Donegal. He travels throughout Ireland and abroad telling stories and facilitating workshops in storytelling, Drama and creative writing. He has featured in many storytelling festivals in Ireland and abroad including the Cape Clear International Storytelling Festival and the Nyskund Storytelling Festival in Norway. the Witchin' Well is his first paly to be produced. It featured first as part of the earagail Arts Festival and subsequently undertook two Irish tours. It was also invited to the '100, 1000, 1000000 Stories' Theatre Festival, Bucharest, RomaniA. His play 'Dreamland' received a rehearsed reading at the Kilkenny Arts Festival in 2004. This was the culmination of a series of workshops with Barnstorm Theatre Company

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below is a list of Joe Brennan's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Star Boy         Sweety Bottle, The         Whispering Waves         Witchin' Well, The

Star Boy

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1st Produced:
Louisburgh Childrens Arts Festival    2014

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Childrens play

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Sweety Bottle, The

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Granddad buys a confectionary shop on the Falls Road, Belfast and opens the back room as an illegal drinking club

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Written by Joe and Gerard Brennan

1st Produced:
Irish tour    2013

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Brassneck Theatre Company

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Drama

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Whispering Waves

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1st Produced:
Kilkenny Arts Festival    2014

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Witchin' Well, The

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the Witchin' Well is a modern fairytale that tells the story of Sean and his sister anne, who find themselves in the underworld where they encounter Nellie the witch, a strange creature called Skitter, a wise fish Shareel, amadan the giant and rapping forest fairies. anne is constantly mean to Sean and when they discover a well in the woods Sean wishes that he didn't have a sister, despite warnings from anne that the well was cursed. the next morning Sean wakes to the distant screams of anne. When he looks under his bed, thinking that the sound is coming from there, he is sucked under into the underworld where anne is the witch's captive. the only way to free her is to confront amadan and bring back some Ongar berries to trick the witch. Nellie believes the berries will make her even more powerful but in fact they kill her. Sean manages to enlist the help of the witch's assistant Skitter but questions his loyalty as they journey through the woods to find amadan. On the way he has to outsmart the forest fairies, overcome his fear of heights and persuade the giant amadan to give him the berries.

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the part of the witch was played by A male Actor in this production. Script Available for consideration from the Author, joebrennan@taletradition.com

1st Produced:
an Grianan Theatre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, Ireland    2005

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an Grianan Productions

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Genre:
Children's Drama Youth audience

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  Puppets for Shareel, Forest Fairies and Sean when he meets amadan

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