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MIKE FINN |
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Nationality: Irish Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Plays by Mike Finn |
Charlie Chaplin's Mother Was An Irish Man | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
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| 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 | #11717 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | This one-man show tells the story of a young man who waits outside a Limerick nightclub for his sometime girlfriend to arrive. As he waits he examines the ups and downs of his life, the contents of his pockets, a nearby dustbin and the city life he sees around him in an attempt to discover the meaning of it all, and more importantly, the money for a taxi home. At the same time, the actor portraying him has a few choice words to add about the actor's life. | |||||
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Crunch, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||||
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| 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 | #11718 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A free adaptation of Moliere's Tartuffe, which relocates this savage look at religious bigotry to Ireland in 1992, at the time of the Right to Travel and Information Referenda. The play examines what happens when an ordinary Irish household comes under the influence of a religious hypocrite trying to impose his warped ideals on others, while being a scoundrel himself. | |||||
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Ellis Island | ||
| 1st Produced: | rehearsed reading, Hunt Musuem, Limerick | 2003 | ||||
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| 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 | #11719 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 18 | ||
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Synopsis: | The journey to the new world, from the point of view of three families who meet up when the ship sails from Kingstown, Co. Cork. A single Irish woman, an Italian family and a Jewish man dream, worry and eventually arrive at the eponymous island, where their fates are decided | |||||
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Pigtown | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
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| 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 | #11720 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 16 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | minimum cast of 10 | |||||
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Synopsis: | Pigtown is a theatrical journey through the history of 20th-century Limerick, seen through the eyes of one man. On the morning of his death, Tommy wanders the streets of Limerick meeting characters from his life and times as scenes from his past take shape before him. Pigtown travels up and down the twentieth century visiting incidents famous and forgotten, including the Emergency, the 'Limerick Soviet' and the Boer War. | |||||
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Quiet Moment, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
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| 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 | #11721 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Peter works in California where he buys memory for a large computer corporation. However, his father who lives in Limerick is rapidly losing his own. Peter comes home for a brief visit to make the best arrangements he can for his ailing Dad, but also has some memories of his own to deal with. | |||||
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Shock & Awe | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
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| 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 | #11722 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | a fast moving play about war, love, revenge and destiny, in which three actors, between them, play numerous characters, including Greek and Trojan warriors, timeless beauties and a whole pantheon of gods and godesses. However, there is more. . .Jerry Springer, Blind Date and Sky News, all get a look-in in Mike Finns contemporary version of Homers Iliad | |||||
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