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London

1962

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Birmingham: Rep, UK, EUR >>>

late 1950's

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in "Plays Of The Year Vol.16", Elek, London

1958

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Tragedy

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Joseph O'Conor's play "The Iron Harp" was first produced at Birmingham Repertory Theatre late 1950's starring Albert Finney as the blinded Irish poet. ( My wife Fiona Thorburn worked in it as a drama student.)
fraser donald (fraser.donald@wanadoo.fr)

Sunderland

1964

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SFX City Theatre, Dublin >>>

1999

The Machine

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Mysteries 2000 was a millennium project where fifteen writers were commissioned to produce new versions of sections of the Mystery plays. The plays were as follows: 'The Fall of Lucifer', 'Creation', 'Jesus, Mary & Joseph' and 'Judgement Day' by Michael McCaffery; 'Cain and Abel' and 'The Last Supper' by Aidan Matthews; 'Noah' by Fergus Linehan; 'Abraham & Isaac' by Johnny Hanrahan; 'Moses' by Joe O'Byrne; 'Temptation' and 'The Adulteress Woman' by Joseph O'Connor; 'Parliament of Heaven', 'The Seven Deadly Virtues' and 'Council of Jews' by Derek Chapman; 'The Death of Herod' by Pat Kinevane; 'John the Baptist' by Declan Gorman; 'My Mind of Questions' and 'Betrayal' by Brendan Kennelly; 'Lazarus', 'Buffeting' and 'Harrowing of Hell' by Gavin Kostick; 'Pilate's Wife' by Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy; 'The Death of Judas' by Michael Scott; 'Ascension' by Deirdre Purcell and 'Song of Songs' by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill.

Project Arts Centre, Dublin >>>

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Pigsback Theatre Company

Methuen Drama, London >>>

1995

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Red Roses and Petrol is a suburban drama which explores love, betrayal and secrets within a dysfunctional middle class family. In her Dublin home, Moya is preparing for the funeral mass of her husband, Enda. Her children are returning from England and America for the sombre occasion. But as the ghosts of the Doyles' past begin to materialise, the consequences are both disturbing and comic.

Sunderland

1965

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Andrews Lane Theatre, Dublin >>>

1999

Fishamble Theatre Company, Dublin >>>

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Through a series of interconnecting monologues, a mother and son remember the break-up of a marriage in the 1970s and share their haunted memories of its effect on the people involved. Loosely based on the short story collection of the same name, True Believers is an exploration of loss and growing up in an Irish family.

Gate Theatre, Dublin >>>

1997

Gate Theatre, Dublin >>>

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In an attic room far above Dublin, in the not too distant future, three old women are perched together like rare and endangered birds. Sister Veronica, Mother Bernard and Sister Eugenia Barker have spent thirty years in this strange institution, watching through their window as the city far below has forgotten them. But as this Christmas Eve dawns, fate is about to intervene with shattering consequences, and the world they thought so still is on the brink of being changed forever.