CIARAN MCCONVILLE
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Plays by Ciaran McConville
Gift Of The Magi, The |
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Immortal |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||
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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 | 5 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: Production first seen on the 2002 Edinburgh Fringe as The Legend of Squadron 463 | ||||
Synopsis: The surviving members of a Lancaster Bomber crew shelter in a deserted school in Holland. One of their number is mortally wounded, the rest cold and shattered. They must keep each other going through the night with humour and camaraderie. "As comical as it is haunting. . . . Debut Theatre Company's production maintains a perfect balance of humour and urgency throughout." Time Out. "An involving piece of theatre handled effortlessly.. The dialogue's great with a nice line in humour and there's an unexpected twist at the end." **** The Scotsman | ||||
Legend Of Squadron 463, The |
| 1st Produced: | Edinburgh Festival | 2002 | ||
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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 | 5 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: aka Immortal | ||||
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Man Who Dreamed, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||
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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 | 4 | Female | 5 |
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Synopsis: Arthur Penman is a nobody. He works for the reputable firm of Singleton, Drab and Gray. But one night he returns home to find a beautiful woman waiting for him. An actress. He is whipped up into a world of theatre, writing, dreaming and ultimately madness. "The great joy of the Festival is discovering groups and writers youd not come across before. Funny, touching and riotously inventive, this tautly scripted, superbly performed gem was head and shoulders above many big name, big budget productions elsewhere in the Festival. The company are clearly names to watch." The Irish Post. "Thirty seconds into this production, I could feel the tension in my shoulders loosen, the corners of my mouth upturn into a half-smile and my every muscle relax, secure in the knowledge that I was in the presence of accomplished performers who were going to enchant me with their fairytale, without a single line-fluff, a glimpse of over-acting or self indulgence." The Scotsman | ||||
My Father the Angel |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | Operating Theatre Company in association with the Tristan Bates Theatre | |||
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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 | |||
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Notes: part of Writers' Block - {a week of new work}; 6 of the very best plays in development. 6 emerging talents challenge, cajole and entertain as they dissect apocalyptic justice, soul-searching absurdism, the cause and affect of the human cost of war and other global musings... | ||||
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Nineteen Eighty Four |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
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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 | 4 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: Produced with permission of the Orwell Estate, 2004. | ||||
Synopsis: A new adaptation of Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian superstate. | ||||
Oliver Twist And Frankenstein |
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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: | - | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Pip's War |
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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 | |||
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Settling Dust, The |
| 1st Produced: | Union SE1, London | 2005 | ||
| Company: | Entropy Ink | |||
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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 | 3 |
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Synopsis: Uses the situation in 2005 Sudan as a background for a story of love and sacrifice. | ||||
Shostakovich |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
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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 | |||
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Synopsis: This is the first British play about Shostakovich. Set in Moscow in 1969, the iconic composer reflects on a life of fear and passion and, as illness takes hold, questions what people will think of him in the future. | ||||
Snowbound |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||
| Company: | Debut Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | 2008 | |||
| 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 | 3 | Female | 4 |
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Notes: Snowbound was given a rehearsed reading at the National Theatre Studio on 14 October 2005 | ||||
Synopsis: 'The dead stay with you...They reach back. When you least expect it. Out of the corner of your eye...You look over your shoulder. And it's love.' Tom has always dreamed of travelling the world, but since his mother died he's been full-time carer to his brother, Alex, while all the opportunities have gone to the youngest, Sally. The gift of a video camera takes the brothers on an unexpected journey, as Alex sets out to make a documentary about love. But a violent strategy pushes Tom to the limits of his own strength. Alex must venture after him, into uncharted territory, where love is all-consuming and obliterates the landscape like a snowstorm. | ||||
These Four Walls |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
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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 | - | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: Auschwitz, 1944. A young Jewish prisoner hides in a cellar. Here she caresses her dreams and memories and talks to the children she will never have. | ||||
Touched by Fire |
| 1st Produced: | C central, Edinburgh Festival | 2003 | ||
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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 | |||
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Notes: Inspired by events such as the Moscow Theatre Siege, writer Ciaran McConville has come up with an intriguing response via a mental institution.. Stranger-in-asylum has become a well-trodden sub-genre but McConville veers into unexpected territory. A confi | ||||
Synopsis: A lunatic asylum receives three new patients. A woman haunted. A man obsessed. And a stranger who claims to be Death. The one thing that binds them together is the one thing that will tear them apart. | ||||