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MARTIN O'CONNOR |
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MARTIN O'CONNOR is an actor and writer. He has performed with The Citizens Theatre Company, Det Aapne Teater, Oslo, and TAG. He has written and performed three solo shows, Manifesto, Zugzwang and Reality for Arches Live, Arches Theatre Festival and Glasgay. Martin is also a co-producer of Licence Pending, a new Glasgow-based spoken word event.
Plays by Martin O'Connor
Ch Ch Changes | ||
| 1st Produced: | Glasgow: Citizens Theatre, 119 Gorbals Street, Glasgow, G5 9DS >>> | 25 Oct 2011 | ||||
Company: | Glasgay | |||||
| 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 | #132359 | |||
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Genre: | play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Part of Glasgay! Scotlands annual celebration of queer culture. | |||||
Synopsis: | Herald Angel Award Winner Grant Smeaton, transmutes into a spectrum of multi-coloured sexuality as seen through the eyes of five middle-aged characters. Smeaton riotously transforms sex and sexuality before your eyes and asks the question - where does our sexuality begin and end? Written by Martin O'Connor and partly devised through personal accounts from the LGBT community, of growing up through the sexually ambiguous 70s and beyond. Time may change me. But I can't trace time. | |||||
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Inner Circle | ||
| 1st Produced: | Glasgow, underground trains | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Subway Festival | |||||
| 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 | #99595 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Renato Gabrielli | |||||
Synopsis: | 24 minute piece designed to fit one circuit of the subway, and performed in the rear carriage of a train with the help of a microphone and amplifier. It tells of a man, an ordinary subway commuter, who knows he's going nowhere until a lost and distressed two-year-old boy catches his eye and forces him - just briefly- to confront his dangerous need for more life. | |||||
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Manifesto | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | Think Tank Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #63255 | |||
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Genre: | Piece One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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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. | |||||
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Playing Houses | ||
| 1st Produced: | 13 Oct 2009 | |||||
Company: | Glasgay! Festival | |||||
| 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 | #108154 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Andy is running towards something. Sean is running away. Michael is running scared. It's the warm, sticky evening of the Big Brother final. Neither deserted mother Sandra nor her three sons have been keeping up with the series, but they'll each watch the spectacle from their own rooms - that is, until their hitherto AWOL father makes an appearance. The scenario functions as a springboard from which to investigate four experiences of gender - or five, if you count that of Da, whose absence gives him a kind of all-pervasive presence. Sandra feels washed up at 36, oldest son. Wee Andy is facing fatherhood himself, Michael has been involved in a homophobic attack and confused youngster Sean attempts to solve his problems through daytime TV. All are searching for validation and belonging, something not afforded them either outside or inside the home, where Kirsty McCabe's simple, four-piece set solidifies their separateness. | |||||
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Reality | ||
| 1st Produced: | Q! Gallery Studio, Glasgow | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Glasgay/Tron Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #81228 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
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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 | |||||
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Self Confessed Male, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "I Confess", monologues edited by Maggie Rose. Fairplay Press, Edinburgh >>>, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #63256 | |||
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Genre: | Piece One Act | |||||
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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. | |||||
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. | |||||
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Zugzwang | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Think Tank Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #54508 | |||
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: | Piece One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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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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