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Paul Mercier
Nationality: Irish ( - )
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Biography and Notes (further contributions welcome) :

Paul Mercier is a founding member and artistic director of the Passion Machine theatre company. His plays have received numerous awards such as the Harvey's Irish Theatre Award for Best New Irish Work, The Sunday Independent Arts Award, The Sunday Tribune Arts Award, The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and an Edinburgh Fringe First Award. His 1998 Dublin Trilogy received the Evening Herald/Dublin Theatre Festival Award for Best Irish Production and The Irish Times/ESB Irish Theatre Award for Best Production. He has written and directed two award-winning short films for Brother Films, 'Before I Sleep' and 'Lipservice'.


Plays by Paul Mercier

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Buddleia 
Diarmud And Grainne 
Down The Line 
Drowning 
Home 
Homeland 
Kitchensink 
Native City 
Pilgrims 
Spacers 
Studs 
Wasters 
We Ourselves 

Paul Mercier     Buddleia
Company The Passion Machine
Synopsis:

First Produced 1995 Project Arts Centre, Dublin >>>
Published
Genre Play
Parts Male
43
Female 12
Other doubling possible
Notes

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Paul Mercier     Diarmud And Grainne
Company The Passion Machine
Synopsis:

First Produced 2001 Taibhdhearc na Gallimhe
Published
Genre Adapatation/translation
Parts Male
9
Female 1
Other doubling possible
Notes

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Paul Mercier     Down The Line
Company Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland >>>
Synopsis:

First Produced 2000 Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage, Dublin >>>
Published 2000 Methuen, London
Genre Play
Parts Male
6
Female 6
Other
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Paul Mercier     Drowning
Company The Passion Machine
Synopsis:

First Produced 1984 SFX City Theatre, Dublin >>>
Published
Genre The Rock Musical
Parts Male
6
Female 2
Other
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Paul Mercier     Home
Company The Passion Machine
Synopsis:

First Produced 1988 SFX City Theatre, Dublin >>>
Published 1989 The Passion Machine (1872313051)
Genre Play
Parts Male
15
Female 5
Other doubling possible
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Paul Mercier     Homeland
Company
Synopsis:

Tthe main character, Jerry Newman, making a brief return to Ireland from "Heaven" (a villa in Italy) to do some consultancy work. Loosely based on the Celtic myth of Oisin, the play extends Mercier's favoured theme of the search for values in a changing Ireland: "We used to have an inferiority complex. Now we have an airport complex."
Karen Fricker, The Guardian
First Produced 2006 Abbey Theatre, Dublin >>>
Published
Genre Play
Parts Male
Female
Other
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Paul Mercier     Kitchensink
Company The Passion Machine
Synopsis:

First Produced 1996 Andrews Lane Theatre, Dublin >>>
Published
Genre Play
Parts Male
2
Female 2
Other
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Paul Mercier     Native City
Company The Passion Machine
Synopsis:

First Produced 1998 Tivoli Theatre, Dublin
Published
Genre Play
Parts Male
75
Female 32
Other doubling possible
Notes

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Paul Mercier     Pilgrims
Company The Passion Machine
Synopsis:

First Produced 1993 Project Arts Centre, Dublin >>>
Published
Genre Play
Parts Male
5
Female 4
Other
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Paul Mercier     Spacers
Company The Passion Machine
Synopsis:

First Produced 1986 SFX City Theatre, Dublin >>>
Published
Genre Play
Parts Male
4
Female 3
Other
Notes

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Paul Mercier     Studs
Company The Passion Machine
Synopsis:

tells the story of the Rovers, a hopeless local soccer team from Dublin's Northside, who are galvanised by their new manager, Walter - a stranger in town who carries a vague mystique of past glories on the pitch.
First Produced 1986 SFX City Theatre, Dublin >>>
Published
Genre Play
Parts Male
12
Female
Other
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Paul Mercier     Wasters
Company The Passion Machine
Synopsis:

First Produced 1985 SFX City Theatre, Dublin >>>
Published
Genre Play
Parts Male
3
Female 3
Other
Notes

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Paul Mercier     We Ourselves
Company
Synopsis:

First Produced 2000 Vicar Street, Dublin
Published
Genre seven consecutive monologues
Parts Male
4
Female 3
Other
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