WALTER MACKEN (1915 - 1967)
| Nationality: | Irish |
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Plays by Walter Macken
Home is the Hero |
| 1st Produced: | Queen's Theatre, Dublin | 1952 | ||||
| Company: | Abbey Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
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| Synopsis: | The jailbird returns home - reformed. But soon reverts back to character to the disgust of his family | |||||
Look In The Looking Glass |
| 1st Produced: | Queen's Theatre, Dublin | 1958 | ||||
| Company: | Abbey Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | The playwright returns home to the village following the Dublin sucess of his play all goes well until the inhabitants dicover the plot is based on themselves. | |||||
Mungo's Mansion |
| 1st Produced: | 1946 | |||||
| Company: | Abbey Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1964 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Play of Galway Life in Three Acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | Choices, some welcome and some not, as a tenenement family in Galaway determine whether to move to a new corporation house in Shantalla | |||||
Twilight of A Warrior |
| 1st Produced: | Queen's Theatre, Dublin | 1955 | ||||
| Company: | Abbey Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Macmillan, London (1956) | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | IRA leader finds peacetime difficult with his authoritarian instincts. Climaxes with his fall from grace following family preasure | |||||
Vacant Possession |
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| 1st Published: | Macmillan, London 1948 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Voices of Doolin, The |
| 1st Produced: | Gaiety Theatre, Dublin Theatre Festival | 1960 | ||||
| Company: | Cyril Cusack Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
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| Synopsis: | Plagued by alcholism and voices in his head, man is eventually abandoned by his family leaving him to be looked after by his daughter and two old faithful workers. | |||||