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RONAN O'DONNELL
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Ronan O'Donnell is a playwright based in Scotland whose work has been staged by the Traverse Theatre, LLT and Arches/Theatre of Imagination, amongst others.
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Angels
An uproarious underworld whodunit, Ronan O'Donnell's single-hander reworks the hardboiled crime thriller for our times. A suspicious death at the workplace and loner security guard Nick Prentice is hauled in for interrogation. The Inspector thinks he's got his man, as Nick's seedy wee stories' seem to nail him to the crime. Is he complicit in the death of two-bit shoplifter Gary Glover? Will Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson come to his rescue?
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a Play, a Pie and a Pint
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Genre:
short whodunit
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Brazil
It's the near future and America is at war with Europe . . . Trapped in this disorientating world . . . Doddy hares around the depressed estates and vast rubbish dumps that make up his home town . . . a promising new writer' Times
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Theatre of Imagination
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in Singular male Voices, Nick Hern Books, London, 2004 -
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Play/Drama
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Chic Nerds, The
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Reaching beyond the world of sex, rock 'n' roll, and most of all, drugs, explores the identity behind the public persona of a young man overwhelmed by a manipulative industry
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Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 1998 -
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Doll Tower, The
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It's 1922, and T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia), is now plain T.E. Shaw (of Dorset). He is encamped incognito with his bodyguard John Bruce, and the other raw recruits at Bovington Tanks. Seven Pillars of Wisdom comes up against the hangover from the Great War.
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In The Bag
The first modern Chinese play to be seen in Britain, in an English version by Ronan O'Donnell first seen at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. Translated, the Mandarin phrase 'In the Bag' means 'safe and secure' as well as 'trapped and contained'. Hard-edged but tender, In the Bag explores, through the relationships of two couples, a culture torn between its history and its contemporary reality.
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Original Playwright - Wang Xiaoli
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Adaptation
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Male: 2  Female: 2  Other: -
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Lysistrata
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This production in Scots is set on a boat carrying refugees who decide to perform Aristophane's play
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Original Playwright - Aristophanes
1st Produced:
Netherbow Theatre, Edinburgh, UK 2004
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Common Force Community Theatre, Edinburgh
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Adaptation
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Male: 6  Female: 8  Other: -
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Ned's Lament, The
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Sin-Eaters, The
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Traverse Theatre Company
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Spambam
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LookOut Theatre Company -
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