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SEAN O'RIORDAN (1958 - ) |
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Nationality: English/Australian Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Originally from London Sean O'Riordan trained and worked as a journalist before retraining as an actor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, Wales. Beginning on the London stand up circuit he then acted in a number of touring theatre productions with a number of companies before arriving in Sydney. After touring work in Shakespeare and working on the stand up comedy circuit in Sydney he began teaching and directing, producing and writing and in 1996 formed his production company Barestage. With BARESTAGE Theatre he wrote, directed, produced and acted alongside a dedicated acting group in: Aliens R Human 2 (1996), Housemates (1997), Shakespeare Detective (1998-1999 with Sydney Theatre Company Education Unit). MR TV (2000) 'Roald Dahl meets Ben Elton' Drum Media ;'Hugely physical highly theatrical with all the subtlety of a punch in the gob' Jason Blake City Hub., MIXD DRINX (2002) 'one of the best new Australian works of the year' Stephen Dunne, Sydney Morning Herald. MIXD DRINX was subsequently bought by Glen St. Theatre and remounted with the same cast in 2003. There then followed a commissioned play Holiday in the Sun in 2004 at Sidetrack 'Fantastically unnerving' Sydney Morning Herald (later taken to the New York Fringe) and in 2005 Godzone at the Tap Gallery. 'satirical political farce&Fawlty Towers meets Franz Kafka' 3D World 'funny dark tale' Brag. For Short and Sweet he wrote and directed Barmen's Speech (2003), also acted alongside a cast of 6 in Spyring (2004) and wrote Kiss of the Alien (2005)In January 2009 he wrote Shadowmuse for Shades Theatre at Cleveland St Theatre - an evening of Australian speculative fiction for which he also wrote the vampire piece Jack and Jill. In September 2010 he produced, wrote and directed Kitty and Fifi and Jason Dale for Barestage Theatre which played at the Cleveland St. Theatre as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival. He also wrote two short plays One Last Coffee and Low Status Neckline for the Actors College of Theatre And Television Imagine Festival held in October at the Cleveland St Theatre. He also wrote the short play Pizza With Everything for the 2011 Short and Sweet short play festival. .
Plays by Sean O'Riordan
Mixd Drinx | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tap Gallery, Sydney, Australia | Jun 2002 | ||||
Company: | Barestage 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 | #126922 | |||
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Genre: | Surreal Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Two couples, bored with their humdrum middle class lives, are drawn into a web of mystery and madness by a bizarre barman who locks them in the pub they are in and forces them to perform a dark and lustful version of Jack and the Beanstalk. As the hours pass and the drinks go down the couples give way to temptation and desire. | |||||
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Mr Tv | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tap Gallery, Sydney, Australia | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Barestage 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 | #127126 | |||
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Genre: | Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A raging black comedy MR TV uses rhyme, speed, energy and sheer bad taste to attack global corporations and power-hungry media moguls. The play charts the rise to power of a scheming Lady MacBeth-like character, Kate, who plans the murder of her boss to become the new MR TV while the real MR TV plans the insertion of a miniature transmitter chip into his head so he can transmit his thoughts to TVs all over the world. MR TV features zombies, deadly shareholders, murder, black magic, bent cops, corporate prostitutes and extremes of theatrical licence. | |||||
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