Belfast: Old Museum Arts Centre, Ireland, EUR >>>

2009

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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The Society of the title was first initiated some twenty years ago when its four surviving members were but callow undergraduates so the revelation that the livery of their common caucus involves wearing bus conductors' caps and a veritable ministry of silly walks comes as confirmation that all is well with their world. Which of course it isn't. The decades have taken their toll of bruised ambitions, failed marriages and defeat by the demon drink. Tea has never dominated their rituals. The apparently otherwise complete and urbane Simon, a sociologist, is confined to a wheelchair. Welshman Larry, looking like a miniaturised Brian Blessed, was once a master of maths. Now an alcoholic, he's dull as a pub quiz addict. Moustachioed Frank has swopped high flying academia for the role of a writer of populist books on science. So far so Goon Show. And then there's Richard Dormer's physically and mentally manic Brian, a loner who, if we are to believe him, has not only replicated a Large Hadron Collider, not in Switzerland's CERN or Illinois's Fremilab, but in a forgotten section of the Circle Line in London's Underground, but having done so in the pay of a secret arm of government, has created the elusive and previously undiscovered Higgs Boson, one of the two most powerful particles in the universe. The problem is, says Brian, downing Scotch by the bottle, that the powers that be would like the particle back and dead. In escaping from England's Dr Strangeloves, his burlesquery of a James Bond adventure has resulted in dozens of deaths, and, any moment now, the end of the universe.
- Ian Hill, British Theatre Guide

Belfast Festival at Queen's

2005

Ransom Productions

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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backstage before a solo performance of Hamlet, recounting the actors depths and fears

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2003

Ransom Productions

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Solo

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A formidable slice of Rock 'n' Roll theatre depicting the life of Northern Ireland's 'people's champion', snooker legend Alex Higgins.

Public Spaces in Belfast City Centre

2005

Ransom Productions and Kabosh

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

six one minute plays

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written by Richard Dormer and Karl Wallace

various topices from the meaning of life to homelessness

Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast, Ireland >>>

2007

Ransom Productions

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Poetry and Irish translation by Robert Welch

This Piece of Earth addresses an especially grim moment in Irish history: the Irish Famine or Great Hunger of 1845-1850. The play blends the barren style and staging of Samuel Beckett with the beauty and intimacy of Brian Friel and depicts the physical and emotional struggles of a couple trying to reach the coast and flee Ireland for a better life. For the people of contemporary Northern Ireland negotiating a peaceful path, this piece is a ghost from the past which has been welcomed by some and not others; the famine theme has had few treatments, but this one - while controversial in the Irish media - has equally challenging questions to ask in countries trying to reconcile issues of land, food, and freedom.