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RICHARD DORMER |
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Nationality: Irish Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Judy Daish Associates Ltd |
Richard Dormer trained as an actor at RADA in London, and has since played many leading roles onstage throughout the UK and in Ireland. He won the 2004 Irish Times Best Actor Award for his performance in Frank McGuinness's Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. He has also appeared extensively on television and on film. His first play, Hurricane, based on the life of Alex Higgins, the Belfast snooker star, premiered at the Old Museum Arts Centre in Belfast in 2002; the subsequent tour included the London premiere at the Soho Theatre in 2004 and a transfer to the West End. The play won the 2002 BBC Radio Drama Award from the Stewart Parker Trust, and his performance gained him The Stage's Best Actor Award at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival. The Ha!f his second play, premiered at the Belfast Festival at Queen's in 2005. During 2005 and 2006 he appeared with the Peter Hall Company in productions of Miss Julie, Measure for Measure and Waiting for Godot.
Plays by Richard Dormer
Gentlemen's Tea Drinking Society, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | Ransom Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #95326 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
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Half, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Belfast Festival at Queen's | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Ransom Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57985 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | backstage before a solo performance of Hamlet, recounting the actors depths and fears | |||||
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Hurricane | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | Ransom Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #9898 | |||
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Genre: | Solo Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A formidable slice of Rock 'n' Roll theatre depicting the life of Northern Ireland's 'people's champion', snooker legend Alex Higgins. | |||||
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Minute Of Your Time | ||
| 1st Produced: | Public Spaces in Belfast City Centre | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Ransom Productions and Kabosh | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67085 | |||
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Genre: | six one minute plays Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | written by Richard Dormer and Karl Wallace | |||||
Synopsis: | various topices from the meaning of life to homelessness | |||||
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This Piece Of Earth | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Ransom Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67086 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Poetry and Irish translation by Robert Welch | |||||
Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
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