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JOE (1) O'BYRNE |
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Plays by Joe (1) O'Byrne |
Article, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Warehouse, London | 19 Nov 1999 | ||||
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 | #134554 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A young journalist interviews the reclusive parents of a convicted criminal. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bench, The | ||
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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 | #94571 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Set around a bench in a Manchester park over a twelve month period, this is just one of O'Byrne's works set in the fictional community of Paradise Heights, and it does not so much tell a story as show snatches of the lives of various people who pass through the park. However this is not just a series of sketches; many of the characters reappear, or interact with different characters later on, or are referred to in conversation. Wendy and Jeff are having trouble in the bedroom and so perform S & M role-play games in the park to help get him in the mood. The ghost of Corny is so attached to the place where he grew up that he doesn't want to go back "up there", plus he has fallen for Shirley, the person who tells him off for interacting with living people. Two old men meet regularly at the cenotaph and have their soup together, even when something tragic happens to one of them. Two local thugs, Matty and Jake, plan a robbery based on what they have observed and heard from the bench. Gabrielle, a pathetic, homeless petty thief stealing to order for Matty, turns out to be, we find out when she talks to homeless Eric who is besotted with her and doesn't know how to tell her, a talented artist. | |||||
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I'm Frank Morgan | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #134555 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The first in the Paradise Heights stage series has now been made into a short film. It introduces Frank Morgan, the hardest man in the hard estate, But now he has to take on himself. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rank | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
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 | #99126 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Local writer Joe O'Byrne directs his own play Rank, set in the same fictional Manchester estate Paradise Heights that has featured in his previous plays such as The Bench and I'm Frank Morgan. Lucky Cabs has been boycotted under orders of a local gangster after boss Lisa 'turned grass', and, as the police try to quell a riot, a ghost from the past is watching and waiting. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Strawberry Jack | ||
| 1st Produced: | Robert Powell Theatre, Salford University | 07 Dec 2011 | ||||
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 | #134556 | |||
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 | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Part of The Paradise Heights series of tales which set somewhere in the psyche of Salford and beyond possibly on the dark side of Shameless. It's a fictional estate where the characters are larger and harder than life but sprinkled with the magic of theatrical tragedy and a bit of comedy. | |||||
Synopsis: | It features the once ferocious Strawberry Jack Grundy of the Ace of Spades Nightclub, whose heart begins to melt as the festive season approaches thanks to a girl he rescues. There's only one problem. Someone wants Strawberry Jack dead by Christmas. . . | |||||
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