WILSON JOHN HAIRE   (1932 - )


Wilson John Haire
   Nationality:
Irish
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Plays by Wilson John Haire

WILSON JOHN HAIRE
Bloom Of The Diamond Stone
1st Produced:
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
Pluto Press, London (ISBN 0435 233637)
1979
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Boy/girl relationship in Belfast factory runs into difficulties due to their different backgrounds.
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WILSON JOHN HAIRE
Clockin' Hen, The
1st Produced:
1968
Company:
Camden Theatre Group, London
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
6
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: A demonstration against a Ian Paisley march through a Belfast Catholic area in 1962 causes a riot which results in a court case. The Clockin' Hen in the title is the broody hen which is about to hatch out the egg that results in The Troubles
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WILSON JOHN HAIRE
Dandelion Clock, The
1st Produced:
BBC1
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
TV
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: BBC1 Television Play for Today, 15 May, 1975
Synopsis: Young girl from an East Belfast Protestant ghetto does a runner from school for a day, wanders the city, during its violenr period, and encounters Catholic girls of her own age, for the first time. Missing, she causes anxiety for her family who begin a search for her
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WILSON JOHN HAIRE
Diamond, Bone And Hammer And Along The Shoughs Of Ulster, The
1st Produced:
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes: produced at Unity Theatre, London on the 8th of August, 1969
Synopsis: Influenced by Brecht's Fear and Misery in the Third Reich, it shows in 7 scenes life in Northern Ireland for the average Catholic during the old Stormont Regime during the 1950s and early 1960s
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WILSON JOHN HAIRE
Divil Era
1st Produced:
1968
Company:
Camden Theatre Group, London
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Two brothers in the B-Specials (auxiliary police in N.Ireland, disbanded in 1972) guard a road bridge. Without very much to do they pick on their father's farm labourer when he approaches drunkenly (after a night out) and verbally torment him.
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WILSON JOHN HAIRE
Echoes From A Concrete Canyon
1st Produced:
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: A woman in a high-rise block in London slowly disintegrates when her husband leaves her and she meets up with a slightly deranged lover. The woman's teenage daughter also gives her hell in the process of growing up
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WILSON JOHN HAIRE
Letter From A Soldier
1st Produced:
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: BBC2 Television, in the Centre Play series March 1975
Synopsis: A soldier returns from duty in N.Ireland and suffers delayed trauma from his experience there which causes problems for his mother and younger brother
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WILSON JOHN HAIRE
Lost Worlds
1st Produced:
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Haire, W.J., Lost Worlds" Heinemann, London (ISBN 0435 233637)
1978
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Genre:
Three Short Plays
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Newsflash, Wedding Breakfast, Roost
Synopsis: Depicting individual lives destroyed by the wars of the 20th Century
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WILSON JOHN HAIRE
Newsflash
1st Produced:
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Haire, W.J., Lost Worlds" Heinemann, London (ISBN 0435 233637)
1978
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: part of Lost Worlds
Synopsis: An elderly bedridden Protestant mother and her 3 middle-aged daughters are caught up in a firefight between the British Army and the IRA along the Northern Ireland border with Eire. A mortar round comes through their roof killing them just as they have fatalistically climbed on to their mother's bed to make a last journey
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WILSON JOHN HAIRE
Roost
1st Produced:
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Haire, W.J., Lost Worlds" Heinemann, London (ISBN 0435 233637)
1978
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: part of Lost Worlds
Synopsis: A young Cambodian girl has been taken out of her country by a charity organisation and taken to London. As she grows older she wonders about her past life and begins to watch the skies for planes. Slowly her past life comes back to her and that ends in the murder of her foster-parents
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WILSON JOHN HAIRE
Wedding Breakfast
1st Produced:
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Haire, W.J., Lost Worlds" Heinemann, London (ISBN 0435 233637)
1978
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: part of Lost Worlds. Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, Surrey , 1981
Synopsis: A young IRA man has just married but he and his bride flee to a derelict house to have their wedding breakfast, aided by a neighbour while the British Army are slowly sledgehammering their way through the walls of the derelict houses further along the street. Soon they will be hammering through their walls.
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WILSON JOHN HAIRE
Within Two Shadows
1st Produced:
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
Davis Poynter, London & Plays and Player, June, 1972
1972
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Winner George Devine Award & Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award. Also published by New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, Volume 1, Number 9, September, 1972. Also been produced at The Lyric Theatre, Belfast, September, 1972 and at
Synopsis: A family divided along political/religious lines in Ulster
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WILSON JOHN HAIRE
World's Apart
1st Produced:
Glasgow
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes: written with J.P. Dylan
Synopsis:
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