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PAULA MEEHAN |
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Nationality: Irish Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Plays by Paula Meehan |
Cell | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
Company: | Calypso Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Island Books, Dublin, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23828 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | A recorded voice is also required | |||||
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Synopsis: | Ireland has the highest percentage of people living in relative poverty in the EU, and the greatest disparity between rich and poor of any Western European country. Even after 'boomtime Ireland', the women of inner-city Dublin remain a disenfranchised, but unbowed population. Renowned, award-winning playwright Paula Meehan is herself a child of the inner city. Cell tells the mesmerizing and extroadinary story of several of these unrepresented women, whose destinies are forged by the social ills of their own environment-they are traumatized and scarred, but still irrepressibly, searingly alive. | |||||
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Kirkle | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dalkey School Project, Dalkey, Co. Dublin, as part of a tour to schools | 1995 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23829 | |||
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Genre: | for primary school students | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Clara is six years old. It is the evening before she enters 'first class'. As she and her parents prepare for school, Clara is distracted by her imaginary friend Kirkle, who causes much confusion and hilarity. They travel together to the imaginary worlds of the jungle, the underwater, the celestial and the mechanical, each with its own entertaining and inventive characters. Kirkle helps Clara to understand the different styles of language they encounter on these madcap journeys | |||||
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Mrs Sweeney | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Rough Magic: First Plays. Ed Siobhan Bourke, New Island Books, Dublin, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23830 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Mrs. Sweeney deals with a family in the aftermath of their daughter's death from AIDS, brought about by drug abuse. Buoyed up by laughter and grief, Lil Sweeney gathers her friends round her and copes, while her husband retreats more and more into a private world obsessed by pigeons. The play charts the disintegration of the family home in the face of insurmountable odds. | |||||
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Voyage, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Ark, Dublin | 1997 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23831 | |||
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Genre: | play for 10-12 year olds | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | The Voyage focuses on the experience of a group of emigrants on their way to America in the late 19th century. Ten year old Aine is a stowaway on a famine coffin ship. She tells stories to her friends and herself to overcome the hardship of the journey. Through her friendship with a family in steerage and the ship's ratcatcher, Aine explores her loss of home and family and celebrates her dreams of a new life. | |||||
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Wolf of Winter, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #23832 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | In the hardest winter in living memory, a stranger arrives at Jodie's village. He comes from afar bearing strange gifts. But are these gifts blessings or curses? The bargain he strikes with Jodie's father will change their lives forever. | |||||
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