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JIMMY MURPHY (1962 - ) |
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Nationality: Irish Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Jimmy Murphy's plays for the Abbey Theatre include Brothers of the Brush, 1993 (winner of the Dublin Festival Best new play award.) A Picture of Paradise 1997, and The Muesli Belt, 2000 Other works include Aceldama, 1998, The Kings of the Kilburn High Road, 2000 (2001 Tricycle Theatre, London) The Castlecomer Jukebox,(2004) for Red Kettle and What's left of the Flag, 2010 Theatre Upstairs @ The Plough, (nominated for Best New Play, 2010 Irish Theatre awards.) In 2008 an Irish language feature film version of The Kings of the Kilburn High Road; Kings, was Irelands official entry into the Best foreign language Oscars category and a subsequent postage stamp was issued in its honour. He is former writer in residence at NUI, Maynooth, a member of the Abbey Theatres Advisory Council and a recipient of three Bursaries in literature from the Arts Council/An ChomhairleEalaion. In 2004 he was elected a member of Aosdana, the affiliation of Irish artists. In September 2011 Focus Theatre will premiere his new play The Hen Night Epiphany.
Plays by Jimmy Murphy
Aceldama | ||
| 1st Produced: | 13 Oct 1998 | |||||
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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 | #25282 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Meaning the land that received Judas's blood where nothing can grow, 'Aceldama' takes place on a hill overlooking a city in former Yugoslavia whose inhabitants are prey to snipers | |||||
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Brothers Of The Bush | ||
| 1st Produced: | 13 Oct 1993 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25283 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Power struggles amongst three house painters and their boss | |||||
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Castlecomer Jukebox, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 17 Feb 2004 | |||||
Company: | Red Kettle Theatre Company, Waterford, Ireland | |||||
| 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 | #25284 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | The band used to be great in the showband era now reduced to playing at a Midlands hotel - but the President of the United Dtates is coming to stay. . . | |||||
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Hen Night Epiphany, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dublin: Focus Theatre, 6 Pembroke Place, Off Pembroke Street, Dublin 2 >>> | 16 Sep 2011 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849431781 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #132413 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 | ||
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| Should some secrets never be kept no matter what the cost? Five women come together to help clear out a run-down cottage a week before the wedding of its new owner, Una. Joining her on this hen night of sorts are her two best friends, Kelly and Triona, her soon to be mother-in-law, Olive, and Olives best friend, Anta. But Una is keeping a secret that, if revealed, will destroy all hopes of her dream wedding and living happily ever after with the love ofher life. As the play unfolds we see the women, one by one, forced to confront awkward truths of their own. | |||||
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Kings of the Kilbum High Road, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oct 2000 | |||||
Company: | Red Kettle Theatre Company, Waterford, Ireland | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Two Plays: The Kings of The Kilburn High Road & Brothers of the Brush, Oberon, London, 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25285 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A group of ex-pat Irish friends meet for the wake of a friend who died in what has been reported as an accident but may have been suicide | |||||
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Muesli Belt, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 16 Feb 2000 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | in New Plays from the Abbey Theatre 1999-2001, Catholic University of America Press, USA, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25286 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | The landlord of a Dublin Pub harbours a seret | |||||
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Picture Of Paradise, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 11 Jun 1997 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | in "The Dazzling Dark: New Irish Plays" Faber, London, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25287 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Tragic Comedy Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A Dublin family is made homeless | |||||
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What's Left Of The Flag | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Upstairs @ The Plough, Dublin | 12 Apr 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #128323 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Two Mossad agents have been sent to Dublin to assassinate a Palestinian leader. They are on the top floor of an abandoned building waiting for a rally to start that their target will be addressing | |||||
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