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Emma Donoghue

EMMA DONOGHUE   (1969 - )

Nationality:   Irish    Email:   n/a   Website:   Click here to visit

Literary Agent:  The Caroline Davidson Literary Agency  

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Plays by Emma Donoghue

EMMA DONOGHUE

I Know My Own Heart

1st Produced:

Playroom Theatre, Cambridge, UK

1991

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in Seen and Heard: Six New Plays by Irish Women, ed Cathy Leeney, Carysfort Press, Dublin, 2001

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Lesbian Regency Romance

Parts:

Male

-

Female

4

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Based on the diaries of Anne Lister (1791-1849). An independent woman who even back then knew what she wanted

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EMMA DONOGHUE

Kissing the Witch

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

1

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

n/a

Further Reference:

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EMMA DONOGHUE

Ladies and Gentlemen

1st Produced:

Project Arts Centre, Dublin >>>

1996

Company:

Glasshouse Productions

1st Published:

New Island Books, Dublin, 1998

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#9850

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

2

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

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.

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