DARAGH CARVILLE (1969 - )
| Nationality: | Irish |
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Plays by Daragh Carville
Convictions |
| 1st Produced: | a site-specific work at Crumlin Road, Courthouse, Belfast. | 2000 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Tinderbox, Belfast | 2000 | ||
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| Genre: | Series of short individual plays | - | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Convictions comprises seven short plays by seven different writers. The seven plays were (in alphabetical order): Male Toilets by Daragh Carville, Judge's Room by Damian Gorman, Court No. 2 by Marie Jones, Main Hall by Martin Lynch, Court No. 1 by Owen Mc | ||||
Synopsis: Convictions was presented as a promenade theatre piece at Crumlin Road Courthouse, a building steeped in the history of Belfast city. Each play is set in, and draws its title from, a particular room in the Courthouse. Convictions looks to the future as each of the playwrights, all of whom are from Northern Ireland, tackle themes of justice and the act of passing judgement. | ||||
Disappearance, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | Sticking Places and Natural Perspectives Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: from the story by M R James. Part of !Terror 2006" | ||||
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Dumped |
| 1st Produced: | Royal School, Armagh | 1997 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Tinderbox, Belfast | 1997 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Nick likes hunting through skips, accompanied by his unwilling girlfriend Liz. Along with the syringes, old boots and the detritus of life, one day they find Franco, a stand-up comedian dumped by his girlfriend Julie, now living in the skip. Hatching a plan to win Julie back, Franco cajoles Nick into helping him. As the characters' relationships develop in intensity, their operation becomes increasingly extreme, culminating in a mock trial of Julie's new boyfriend with tragic results. | ||||
Family Plot |
| 1st Produced: | Queen's University, Belfast | 2005 | ||
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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 | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: takes place in limbo - fictional, formal, and thematic. Five members of an extended family sit in a static, dull grey environment talking about how they have nothing to talk about. Their fright makeup and teased hair, as well as the dialogue, quickly inform us that they are dead, stuck in a stultifying afterlife. Their bickering has been going on so long that they get caught in loops of action and dialogue, which effectively promote nervous laughter in the audience, as we wonder where this is all leading. Karen Fricker, The Guardian | ||||
Holyland, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||
| Company: | NYT | |||
| 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: | Large Cast | |||
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Language Roulette |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Tinderbox, Belfast | 1996 | ||
| 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 | 4 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: A fast-talking pithy drama set on Pound a Pint night as Ulster celebrates the first IRA ceasefire. Brought together by a homecoming, a night out for a group of friends, old and new, turns increasingly edgy as simple party games turn into a deadly serious no-holds-barred session of Truth or Dare. | ||||
Observatory |
| 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 | 3 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: The Armagh Observatory in 1799 and 1999. Historian Jon McKenna, hired to compile a computerised catalogue of the Observatory archives, finds his life becoming entangled with that of Nicola McLoughlin, assistant astronomer at the observatory. Together they work to uncover the 200-year-old story of astronomer, Archibald Hamilton and his assistant Robert Hogg - man of science, man of God and revolutionary. | ||||