JOHN MCCANN (1972 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by John McCann
Cleanroom, The |
| 1st Produced: | 29 Sep 2010 | |||||
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| 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 | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | part of True North | |||||
| Synopsis: | Karen has managed the cleanroom of a pharmaceutical packaging firm for fifteen years. It's more than a just a job the cleanroom has been her place of refuge during turbulent times. Suddenly nothing is safe. Karen's secret relationship with employee Saul is attracting unwanted attention. Her late husband's cronies are watching her day and night. And the factory is facing closure. Just when it seems things couldn't get worse, into the cleanroom walks Molly. She claims to have been transferred to help the cleanroom survive the day, but it soon becomes clear that she has very personal motives for being there. As the workforce shrinks and time runs out, Karen, Saul and Molly are forced to confront some dangerous truths about their past. | |||||
Dark Sky |
| 1st Produced: | CCA Glagow | 02 Oct 2010 | ||||
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| 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: | extract reading | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | part of Life of the Mind: 4 Plays. Playwrights James Ley, Mairead Martin, John McCann and Rachel Clive have recently completed the Playwrights' Studio Scotland mentoring scheme, and are delighted to present extracts of their work in this collaborative event between the Playwrights' Studio and the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival with support of the Arches. The event will present rehearsed readings of extracts from the following four plays: | |||||
| Synopsis: | Jamesy stands on Calton Hill at dusk observing an alien city below. Jamesy is alone. He shouldn't be. All he wants to do is see his daughter but he's not allowed. Not today. If he can't see her then she will see him. | |||||
Next Of It, The |
| 1st Produced: | 30 Apr 2010 | |||||
| Company: | Stellar Quines Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Black Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | by Gabriel Quigley and Vicki Liddelle. Part of Rehearsal Room 16. From a hairdressing salon in Edinburgh's Royal Mile to Scotland's only women's prison, Stellar Quines bring you three different evenings with three new plays. Get involved in vigorous debate with the writers, directors and actors as they present their works in progress. Find out how they have reached this point. Listen to their conversations as they take on your ideas to help build the productions of the future. | |||||
| Synopsis: | A black comedy, set in County Armagh, about family secrets and the legacy of silence. An old blind woman is digging her grave. She enlists her teenage grand-daughter to dig with her, to the disgust of the girl's mother who bans the girl from returning. However, the girl does go back the following day to help her grandmother and in so doing, learns the secret which has driven the family apart with silence and reproaches for as long as she can remember. | |||||
This Long Time |
| 1st Produced: | 15 Nov 2009 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | part of a celebration of ten new theatre voices. Ten new ten-minute plays from ten emerging playwrights; all past participants of the Traverse writing workshops or Words, Words, Words. | |||||
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