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Soinbhe Lally

SOINBHE LALLY   (1945 - )

Nationality:   Irish    Email:   Click here to contact    Website:   Click here to visit

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Born in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, N. Ireland, Soinbhe Lally lives in Donegal. Her fiction has been published in Ireland and US and in translation in Italy. Awards include Hennessy Literary Award, Bisto Merit Award and Irish Reading Association Award. Her plays have been staged extensively in Ireland and abroad by both amateur and professional theatre groups. Her retelling of Irish mythology, Favourite Irish Fairy Tales was an Irish Bestseller

Plays by Soinbhe Lally

Dark Daughter, The

1st Produced:

Ballyshannon Abbey Theatre

2007

Company:

Ballytour Productions

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

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Genre:

Two Act Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

3

Female

2

Parts other:

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Notes:

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Synopsis:

The year is 1609. The ancient Gaelic order in Ireland is finally at an end and its leaders, defeated by the English, are in exile or dead. In remote Kilmacrennan, in Donegal, Lady Finola Inion Dubh MacDonnell knows that she is close to death and seeks to be reconciled with her estranged daughter, Nuala, who has chosen to live in exile in Louvain. Ineen, tries to justify the crimes she committed to advance the career of her warlord son, Red Hugh O'Donnell. The clan's official historian, Lewey O'Clery, is writing a biography of Red Hugh, celebrating his military achievement in traditional heroic style. However Ineen Dubh is forced to acknowledge the futility of the slaughter she has abetted. She has sacrificed everything, even her daughter's happiness, to her son's hatred of the English. Now she must die alone, without the comfort of her daughter at her side.

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Donalbain

1st Produced:

O'Clery Centre, Donegal Town

1987

Company:

Donegal Drama Circle

1st Published:

Garnet Miller Ltd (1996)

ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

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Genre:

comedy One Act

Parts:

Male

6

Female

4

Parts other:

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Notes:

The Play can be performed by 5 actors or more.

Synopsis:

Donalbain, a sensitive aesthete, finds himself out of place in Shakespeare's tragedy, Macbeth. As a King's son, he is offended that he has so few lines to speak and that he is expected to exit the play immediately after the death of his father, King Duncan. His exit line, To Ireland I, raises the possibility of a better life in Ireland. He might just be able to slip into some quiet, play, in the West maybe, where the local shebeen might have a pretty girl behind the counter.

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Othello - the A4 Edition

1st Produced:

Balor Theatre Ballybofey

2000

Company:

SETS Theatre Company

1st Published:

Garnet Miller Ltd (1996)

ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

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Genre:

comedy One Act

Parts:

Male

5

Female

4

Parts other:

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Notes:

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Synopsis:

As Professor Statford presents his new politically correct edition of Shakespeare's Othello, before the pre-structuralist convention known as audience, his secretary, Miss Hathaway pinpoints his failure to renegotiate the patriarchal assumptions of the text. The characters of the play take sides in the argument and the female characters relish their triumph when Miss Hathaway strangles the Professor with his own strawberry spotted handkerchief.

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