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Abbey Theatre, Abbey Stage, Dublin >>>

2002

The Gallery Press, Ireland

2002

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Play/Drama

6

6

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Synopsis:
Fermoy Fitzgerald, a midlands TD, haunted by the ghosts of the past and enthralled by dreams of the future, will sacrifice everything in pursuit of political power - even the lives of his wife and family. On the day of his daughter Ariel's sixteenth birthday, he makes a terrifying bargain with God

Abbey Theatre, Abbey Stage, Dublin >>>

1998

The Gallery Press, Ireland

1999

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Play/Drama

6

5

1 g, extras

Notes:
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Synopsis:
Set in the mysterious landscape of the bogs of rural Ireland, Carr's lyrical and timeless play tells the story of Hester Swane, an Irish traveller with a deep and unearthly connection to her land. Tormented by the memory of a mother who deserted her, Hester is once again betrayed, this time by the father of her child, the man she loves. On the brink of despair, she embarks on a terrible journey of vengeance as the secrets of her tangled history are revealed.

Abbey Theatre, Dublin >>>

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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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Synopsis:
the story of mortgage with the grounds of the proud house being sold to pay off debts

Project Arts Centre, Dublin >>>

1989

Project Arts Centre, Dublin >>>

in The Crack In The Emerald, Nick Hern Books, London

1990

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Play/Drama

3

2

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Low in the Dark explores the myths and misconceptions between the sexes. In Bender and Binder's world, men are a necessary irritant. Their time is spent reliving their relationships, for the most part unsuccessful events. Baxter and Bone, ignorant and innocent of women, spend their time imagining the Ideal Woman. Orchestrating this furore is Curtains, who has her own version of the story of Man and Woman.

Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage, Dublin >>>

1994

The Gallery Press, Ireland

1995

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Play/Drama

1

7

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Synopsis:
An accomplished, beautiful forty-year-old woman, The Mai has always sought an exceptional life. Robert, her cellist husband, has always felt stifled by The Mai's ideals of perfection. After seventeen years he leaves her, whereupon she sets about building a dream house in the hope that he will one day return to her. From her fairytale castle, The Mai waits by the window for her dark-haired prince to return. Set in the inspiring surrounds of the West of Ireland, on the banks of the legendary Owl Lake, we enter this world on the day of Robert's return after an absence of four years. In the midst of Mai's and Robert's troubled reunion are the idiosyncratic characters that comprise the family. Irreverent and unapologetic, the opium-smoking one-hundred-year-old matriarch, Grandma Fraochlan, presides over all. The "Spanish Beauty," as she is known, with her "ancient and fantastical memory" and mythical presence, reminds us that the past is looming ever present. Her daughters, Agnes and Julie, meddle in the affairs o

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

play for 8-12 year olds

One Act

5

8

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Synopsis:
When the scrupulously honest Little Daughter tells the tyrannical Big Daddy she loves him as meat loves salt he banishes her from his Kingdom. She falls onto the Mountains of the Moon Hounds and after many adventures, she meets The Young King who falls in love with her honesty. They agree to marry and her father is invited to the feast only to find a surprise waiting for him.

Town Hall Theatre, Galaway, Ireland >>>

2000

Druid Theatre Company, Galway, Ireland >>>

The Gallery Press, Ireland

2000

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Tragedy of epic proportions

Tragedy

4

3

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Synopsis:
In Marina Carr's epic tragedy of rural life, three generations of the Rafterys live together in the midlands of Ireland. It's a closely knit farming community where hatred and rumours of incest, stillborn children, and abused families seem more common than love and affection.

Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage, Dublin >>>

1996

in The Dazzling Dark: New Irish Plays, Faber & Faber, London

1996

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Play/Drama

5

6

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Synopsis:
Portia Coughlan lives life in monstrous limbo, haunted by a yearning for her spectral twin brother lying at the bottom of the Belmont river, unable to find any love for her wealthy husband and children, seeking solace in soulless affairs, deeply afraid of what she might do . . .

Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast, Ireland >>>

1991

Tinderbox Theatre Company, Belfast, Ireland >>>

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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

4

3

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
A lighthearted analysis of love as seen through the eyes of Renaissance artists and some of the characters they depicted. Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Jesus and the Mona Lisa herself struggle with the big questions of love and art.

Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage, Dublin >>>

1991

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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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Royal Court Upstairs, London

2006

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Faber, London

2006

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Play/Drama

2

2

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
A woman - gaunt and ill, haggard after giving birth eight times - faces death. What was life? What was love? What else could have been? Full of mordant, bitter humour, this is a passionate threnody from one of Ireland's leading playwrights.