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Martin O'Connor

MARTIN O'CONNOR

  
Nationality:    Scottish
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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. Martin recently completed his Master of Arts in Education, specialising in Equality and Diversity. His work has been developed and supported by Playwright's Studio Scotland, a National Theatre of Scotland Writer's Attachment and the artist development programme Team Effort.

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         Ch Ch Changes         Daniel         Do You Nomi?         Inner Circle         Lost Property         Manifesto         Nation//Live: Work         Platypus in Boots, Pop-Up Theatre Royal         Playing Houses         Pokey Hat, The         Reality         Self Confessed Male, The         Subject to Change         Theology         Wilful Forgetting         Zugzwang

Ch Ch Changes

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.

Notes:
Part of Glasgay! Scotlands Annual celebration of queer culture.

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Glasgay

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Genre:
play. - - Gay, one act

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Daniel

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Tron Theatre Lab    -

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Do You Nomi?

Synopsis:
Using four male performers  from both dance and theatre backgrounds, the production looks at the life and times of Klaus Nomi and his rise to fame and notoriety during a very influential period of pop culture in the late 70s and early 80s. The production is the story of one mans struggle to express himself through his unique singing talent fused with his desire to hide behind a theatrical mask. It is also the story of a western world on the brink of change and a gay culture which would be transformed forever with the onset of the then new and much misunderstood AIDS virus.

Notes:
Martin provided the text for the piece which was drawn from existing interviews with Nomi and his peers, and performed verbatim.

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Organisations:
Alan Greig Dance Theatre/Grant Smeaton with Catalyst Dance Management

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Genre:
dance-theatre piece

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Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Inner Circle

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.
- Joyce McMillan, Scotsman

Notes:
Original Playwright - Renato Gabrielli

1st Produced:
Glasgow, Underground Trains    2009

Organisations:
Subway Festival

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Adaptation

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Lost Property

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Manifesto

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

Notes:
Part of Arches Theatre Festival

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Organisations:
Think Tank Theatre

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Piece One Act

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Nation//Live: Work

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National Galleries of Scotland/Visible Fictions    -

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Platypus in Boots, Pop-Up Theatre Royal

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Scottish Opers    -

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Playing Houses

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. - Nadine Mcbay, Herald

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Organisations:
Glasgay! Festival

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Pokey Hat, The

Synopsis:
The Pokey Hat is a show performed outside in an ice-cream van. Celebrating stories from Glasgows East End, this musical and interactive performance is a fun-filled trip down memory lane for all the family.

Notes:
Part of Culture 2014

1st Produced:
Glasgow:Alexandra Park    19 Jun 2014

Organisations:
Grinagog Theatre

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Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Reality

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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1st Produced:
Q! Gallery Studio, Glasgow    2007

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Glasgay/Tron Theatre

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Self Confessed Male, The

Self Confessed Male, The
"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.

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

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Subject to Change

Synopsis:
You know when you know that this wouldn't really be happening in real life but it's fine in the dream? Like that. It all made sense. It should have been weird and awkward but it was totally normal. Nobody reacted. A therapist reveals confidential stories. A fortune teller is duped by a liar. A ghost story grows arms and legs. Jokes are told, dreams are recounted and anecdotes passed on as identities swap and the line between truth and fiction blurs. Subject to Change explores what is lost and what is gained when a story is told and re-told.

Notes:
Martin OConnor has been working with the resident Young Company for a year. Subject to Change is their first collaborative performance. The piece is written by Martin OConnor from material devised by the company.

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Tron young company

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Theology

Synopsis:
A new performance that explores the place of religion in Glasgow today. Inspired by its people, dialects, and faith, Theology incorporates spoken word and song. heology part 1 is a reinterpretation of the Catholic Mass performed in Glaswegian dialect with an all-male choir and musical compositions by Oliver Searle. The piece localises Liturgies, Penitential Rites and Readings and places football songs in place of hymns to create a relevant reworking of a traditional experience. Theology part 2: A Govan of the Mind is based on the structure of the long-form Novena prayer following the sequence of Mourning, Celebration and Expiation, using Govan as a starting point to question images of and attitudes towards a changing city. The performance is a mixture of live spoken word and recorded soundscape created with Nichola Scrutton.

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1st Produced:
Govan: The Pearce Institute    14 Apr 2014

Organisations:
Behaviour Festival

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Wilful Forgetting

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written by Donna Rutherford and Martin O'Connor

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Organisations:
Glasgay

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Genre:
Gay, theme/character, one act

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Zugzwang

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."
the Skinny

Notes:
Part of Arches theatre Festival

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Organisations:
Think Tank Theatre

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