DEREK MAHON (1941 - )
| Nationality: | Irish |
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Plays by Derek Mahon
Cyrano De Bergerac |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | 10 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Edmond Rostand | ||||
Synopsis: Cyrano woos his adored Roxane on another's behalf, and she believes his beautiful words issue from the drop dead gorgeous soldier, Christian | ||||
High Time |
| 1st Produced: | The Guildhall, Derry | 1984 | ||
| Company: | Field Day Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | The Gallery Press, Republic of Ireland | 1985 | ||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Moliere. After 'The School For Husbands' . First performed in a double bill with 'The Riot Act' by Tom Paulin (listed separately). | ||||
Synopsis: A verse comedy in two acts which relocates Molière's 'The School for Husbands' to a Georgian house in Ireland during the 1980s | ||||
Phaedra |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
| Company: | The Gate Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | The Gallery Press, Republic of Ireland | 1996 | ||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Racine. The action takes place at the summer palace at Troezene | ||||
Synopsis: Based on Euripides' 'Hippolytus' and the 'Phaedra of Seneca', Phaedra's main theme is the tragic misunderstanding between men and women. A wife falls violently in love with her unresponsive stepson while her husband and father fail to understand | ||||
School for Wives, The |
| 1st Produced: | Arts Theatre, Belfast. | 1989 | ||
| Company: | Arts Theatre, Belfast. | |||
| 1st Published: | The Gallery Press, Republic of Ireland | 1986 | ||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Moliere | ||||
Synopsis: Arnolphe has got it all worked out. He reckons that wives are unfaithful to their husbands because they are too well-versed in the ways of the world. He chooses a young girl, Agnes, and tries to grow himself a wife. | ||||