n/a

n/a

The Market Place, Armagh, Ireland

2003

Tinderbox Theatre Company, Belfast, Ireland >>>

Tinderbox, Belfast

2003

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Adaptation

2

1

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

Synopsis:
An old couple have lived on an island for years and tonight they are taking the plunge. The old man has longed to pass on his total life experience but has never found the right words. Tonight he has invited the finest in society to listen as a skilled orator articulates his great words of knowledge. The old woman, his faithful companion in life, starts to set out the chairs.

Lytlelton Theatre, National Theatre, London >>>

2002

National Theatre Company Transformations Season

Nick Hern Books, London >>>

2002

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Play/Drama

4

1

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Notes:
-

Synopsis:
Vera is feisty but fading. Ronnie is washed up and permanently half-drunk. Together they run a grubby pub/hotel in present-day Belfast. Assorted 'regulars' come and go over the course of one day and night. Ronnie fails to secure the pub's financial future and Vera looks set to run off with the feckless Iggy

Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast, Ireland >>>

2005

Primecut Theatre Company

Nick Hern Books, London >>>

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Solo

Play/Drama

1

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-

Notes:
-

Synopsis:
A labourer living in London returns home to Belfast to have a last, drunken 'conversation' with his recently dead father.

a site-specific work at Crumlin Road, Courthouse, Belfast.

2000

Tinderbox Theatre Company, Belfast, Ireland >>>

Tinderbox, Belfast

2000

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Series of short individual plays

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10

6

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
Convictions was presented as a promenade theatre piece at Crumlin Road Courthouse, a building steeped in the history of Belfast city. Each play is set in, and draws its title from, a particular room in the Courthouse. Convictions looks to the future as each of the playwrights, all of whom are from Northern Ireland, tackle themes of justice and the act of passing judgement.

Donmar Warehous Theatre, London >>>

2005

SCAMP Film and Theatre Ltd and RJK Productions, Inc.

Nick Hern Books, London >>>

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Adaptation

1

1

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Notes:
teleplay by JP Miller. Filmed 1962

Synopsis:
In the fast-moving milieu of Madison Avenue, social drinking is almost an occupational necessity, and one that fast-rising young Joe Clay adopts with too ready ease. Unfortunately the girl he meets and marries shares his proclivity, and while they continue to tell themselves that they drink because they choose to, it is soon apparent that their habit has become a serious problem. But their failure to acknowledge this plunges them headlong into the shattering events of the playa career in shambles, a marriage destroyed, the esteem of friends and family lost, and a child who has become the innocent victim of their obsession. In the poignant ending of the play a spectre of hope arises but, more important, so does a galvanizing awareness of the depth of their torment, and of the lesson which their compulsive self-destruction must have for others.

BBC 3

2001

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Radio Play

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Notes:
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Synopsis:
about an old married couple reflecting over their lives

Ardhowen Theatre, Enniskillen, Ireland >>>

1996

Kabosh, Belfast, Ireland >>>

in "Plays & Monologues" Langan Press, Belfast

1998

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Play/Drama

1

1

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Notes:
-

Synopsis:
He works in a burger bar; she is in a dead-end university course. They want some excitement, an adventure. They steal a car. The horrors they imagine could never match the horrors they encounter in real life.

Who the Hell Theatre Company

1993

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in "Plays & Monologues" Langan Press, Belfast

1998

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Short Comedy Drama

One Act

1

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Notes:
-

Synopsis:
about a middle aged man coping with unemployment

BBC 3

2002

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Radio Play

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2

1

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Notes:
-

Synopsis:
about an old married couple reflecting over their lives

Andrews Lane Theatre, Dublin >>>

1998

Kabosh, Belfast, Ireland >>>

Lagan Press, Belfast

1998

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Play/Drama

2

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Notes:
-

Synopsis:
A rip roaring, fast paced journey into the world of Mojo and Mickybo - two boys from different sides of the bridge who develop a friendship influenced by their heroes, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

a site-specific piece at the former Northern Bank Building. Belfast.

2001

Tinderbox Theatre Company, Belfast, Ireland >>>

Tinderbox, Belfast

2001

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Physical/Devised Theatre

Piece

2

3

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Notes:
-

Synopsis:
No Place Like Home is about the displaced - people who have been forced to move, who don't know where they are going or what they'll find when they arrive. In the early 1970s, huge numbers of people were forced out of their homes in Northern Ireland. All over the world people are being forced to leave their homes and their land. This devised drama uses movement, text, and drama mixed with video and installation art.

Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Ireland >>>

1994

Lyric Theatre

in "Plays & Monologues" Langan Press, Belfast

1998

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Play/Drama

3

3

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Notes:
-

Synopsis:
Iggy is a writer whose search for the truth has left him isolated and blocked. The other tenants of the rented house where he lives reveal pieces of themselves which Iggy hopes to add to the jigsaw of his story. Meanwhile, his estranged girlfriend, a photographer, returns to record her own version of the truth in a series of posed images.

Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, London >>>

2003

National Theatre Company

Nick Hern Books, London >>>

2003

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Epic Play

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12

8

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Notes:
aka Troubled

Synopsis:
The play takes place over the course of a hot summer's day in an imagined area of present-day Belfast. We see a day in the life of over twenty inhabitants of the district as their stories interweave and collide. In a tour de force of dramatic writing, a whole world is evoked in a couple of hours.

Druid Lane Theatre, Galway, Ireland >>>

2002

Druid Theatre Company, Galway, Ireland >>>

Nick Hern Books, London >>>

2003

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Comedy drama

Comedy

4

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Notes:
-

Synopsis:
about a day in the life of four Irish tilers on a building site. As they come to the end of the job they've been working on, Ding-Ding and Randolph plan to nick a left-over pallet of tiles. Dind-Ding wants to buy a window-cleaning round and Randolph has his eye on a motorbike. But the foreman and his sidekick have had the same idea. . .

Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast, Ireland >>>

1994

Point Fields Theatre Company

in "Plays & Monologues" Langan Press, Belfast

1998

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Short Monologue

One Act

1

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Notes:
-

Synopsis:
A monologue about a man under siege in the community where he grew up