EMMA DONOGHUE (1969 - )
| Nationality: | Irish |
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Plays by Emma Donoghue
I Know My Own Heart |
| 1st Produced: | Playroom Theatre, Cambridge, UK | 1991 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in Seen and Heard: Six New Plays by Irish Women, ed Cathy Leeney, Carysfort Press, Dublin | 2001 | ||
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| Genre: | Lesbian Regency Romance | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Based on the diaries of Anne Lister (1791-1849). An independent woman who even back then knew what she wanted | ||||
Kissing the Witch |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
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Ladies and Gentlemen |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
| Company: | Glasshouse Productions | |||
| 1st Published: | New Island Books, Dublin | 1998 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: Based on a true story& Annie Hindle - the "Monarch of Male Impersonation" who at the height of her success threw it all away to marry another woman. The play takes place in various time frames. Annie is waiting in her dressing room to go on when Ryanny a young Irish-American girl arrives seeking work. Annie introduces her to Tony, the manager and she is hired.As time goes on it is obvious that Annie and Ryanny are in love and they hatch an audacious plan to wed as Ryanny does not believe in sex until after marriage. A drunken priest in the dark with Annie in her stage outfit and it all takes place. Annie retires from Vaudeville and they go to live in Annie's cottage by the sea.But Ryanny developes the disease that killed her mother and dies and Annie returns to the stage. | ||||