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Glasgow: Arches, Scotland, EUR >>>

2005

Think Tank Theatre

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Notes: Part of Arches Theatre Festival

Synopsis: Hormones, Hair loss and Hydraulics: Martin O'Connor presents a mock-conference on the state of the modern male.

Q! Gallery Studio, Glasgow

2007

Glasgay/Tron Theatre

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Synopsis: The first piece, Fame, amounts to a brilliant high-speed tour around the delusional inner world of a Glasgow teenager obsessed with "becoming somebody" through the fickle world of reality-show celebrity. The second, War, shows a Scottish squaddie in Afghanistan gradually sliding into despair and depression as his partner back home becomes a celebrity soldier's wife, and dumps him for better things. And the third is a bleak account of a boy who is both a father and a child; a teenage Dad who can no more care properly for his endangered baby son than he can imagine any escape from the brutal world of junk jobs and video violence in which he lives. There's no doubting, though, that this time around, O'Connor has produced a very fine set of monologues about the emasculation of men in an age of meaningless celebrity, when effort and dedication count for nothing, and blind chance for almost everything. he lives. The Scotsman

Glasgow: Arches, Scotland, EUR >>>

2005

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Notes: part of "I Confess" a series of monologues. These monologues reflect a growing interest in the theme of confession and the subject of other people's lives in contemporary drama and television, including the so-called reality' shows which abound in today's programme schedules. In a live context the experience of direct one to one contact can be alarming and exhilarating by turns. Funny, moving, disturbing and challenging, these monologues will be of interest to actors in search of an audition piece as well as directors on the lookout for a new and highly flexible way of making theatre.
- Hugh Hodgart, Head of Acting RSAMD

Synopsis: "Martin O'Connor's inward searching self-penned monologue The Self Confessed Male was a baptism of fire. . .leaning in close and whispering in your ear that he'd like to mate. . .it's a startling and uncomfortable beginning" Maureen Ellis, Evening Times.

Glasgow: Arches, Scotland, EUR >>>

2006

Think Tank Theatre

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Piece

One Act

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Notes: Part of Arches Theatre Festival

Synopsis: A one-man one-act piece that follows a group of men attending a therapy session. Monologues include a penis-envying gym junkie, a man greiving his dead father and a self help addict who discovers a chess-boxing epiphany. "Managing to present the so-called crisis of masculinity as pathetic in both senses, 'Zug-Zwang' represents a necessary manoeuvre to escape the confrontational nature of the gender identity dialogue. Witty, compassionate and well-delivered, it introduces a strong theme to Glasgay! and was warmly received on its opening. The finale came far too quickly."
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