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JOSEPH O'CONNOR |
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Nationality: 1963 Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Blake Friedmann |
Joseph Victor O'Connor, born Dublin in 1963, is an Irish novelist. He is known for his 2002 historical novel Star of the Sea. Before success as an author he was a journalist with the Sunday Tribune newspaper and Esquire magazine. Not to be confused with Joseph O'Conor.
Plays by Joseph O'Connor
Handel's Crossing | ||
| 1st Produced: | Staged aboard the Jeannie Johnston famine replica ship docked at Custom House Quay, Dublin. | 16 Apr 2009 | ||||
Company: | Fishamble Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #122538 | |||
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Genre: | site specific | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Originally broadcast as "The Crossing: Handel's Messiah" on Lyric FM in 2003. | |||||
Synopsis: | George Frederick Handel arrives in Dublin for the premiere of "The Messiah". As the performance in Fishamble Street looms, the composer is increasingly riddled with fear and self-doubt. His two servants, meanwhile, have personal issues of their own to face. | |||||
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Mysteries 2000 | ||
| 1st Produced: | 01 Nov 1999 | |||||
Company: | The Machine | |||||
| 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 | #26163 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 10 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | adaptation of the Mystery Plays (author unknown). | |||||
Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
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Red Roses And Petrol | ||
| 1st Produced: | 09 May 1995 | |||||
Company: | Pigsback Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0413699909 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26164 | |||
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Genre: | full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| 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. From England and America, her children are returning for the sombre occasion. However, as the ghosts of the Doyle family's past begin to materialise, the consequences are both profoundly disturbing and memorably comic. | |||||
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True Believers | ||
| 1st Produced: | 06 May 1999 | |||||
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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 | #26167 | |||
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Genre: | full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Adapted from the authors own short stories | |||||
Synopsis: | True Believers projects the reader into a world of characters stunning in their variety. Here are sad-hearted priests, old friends, young lovers, rockers and rebels. Here are runaway husbands and runaway wives. Here are jokers and fantatics, punks and poets, thinkers and drinkers, chancers and killers. Here are the true believers, all clinging desperately to some kind of faith in a mutable and dangerous world. Interconnecting tragi-comic monologues describing the break-up of a marriage in Ireland in the 1970's. | |||||
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Weeping of Angels, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 07 Oct 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 | #26168 | |||
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Genre: | full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Three old women, Sister Veronica, Sister Eugenia and Mother Bernard have spent thirty years together in an attic room above Dublin. Set in the near future, the women are separate from reality their only chance to see the changing identity of Ireland is through an old, broken window. Without any contact with the outside world, they are stuck in a timeless realm where the Spice Girls dominate music and terrorism, according to Mother Bernard, is a result of food and only food. Through Mother Bernards commentary, the three women attempt to transcend beyond the restrictions of their Dublin attic. The lives of the nuns, at first, seem mind numbingly simple; their daily life has no variation with any excitement evolving around the arrival of their food. However, as the action continues, it is revealed that their lives have a complexity that exceeds the imagination. | |||||
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