MARK O'ROWE
| Nationality: | Irish |
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Plays by Mark O'Rowe
Anna's Ankle |
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||
| Company: | Bedrock | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: The story of a sadistic snuff-video director and his obsession with a young girl's ankle. | ||||
Aspidistra Code, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Brenda and Sonia are head-over-heels in debt. They fear the arrival of Drongo, a violent and unpredictable loan-shark. But Brendan's brother Joe has hired protection in the person of Crazy Horse. Turns out the two hard men are old mates and the crisis seems averted - until Drongo's code of honour is called into question and violence threatens once more. | ||||
Crestfall |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||
| Company: | The Gate Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | 2003 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Three women, in three separate monologues, tell tales from Crestfall. Crestfall is a place between nightmare and waking. It is a place, yet no place. It is of our world, yet not of our world. It is a savage quarter so dark that all but the tiniest glimmer of light has been extinguished. Almost. | ||||
From Both Hips |
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | 1999 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: An urban comic thriller of violation and vengeance in which a Dublin man is set on revenge after he is accidentally shot in the hip by a member of the Drugs Squad. Surrounded by three women (his wife, her sister and his girlfriend), all of whom are determined to advise him - something has got to give. From Both Hips is a cool, fast sweep through the grey no-mans-land of cops and criminals in contemporary Ireland. | ||||
Howie The Rookie |
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1999 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: a white knuckle ride through a nightmare Dublin, where enemies and allies are interchangeable, where the most brutal events take on a mythic significance | ||||
Kissaway |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||
| Company: | Semper Fi (Ireland) | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Made in China |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | 2001 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Set in a completely re-imagined Dublin underworld, Made in China involves martial artists, rogue cops and savage low-lifes. A dreadful accident causes a violent tug-of-war between two criminal foot soldiers over the loyalty of a third. Self-loathing, guilt and loneliness emerge in this frenzied narrative, which culminates in a blistering battle for survival. | ||||
Terminus |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 2007 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A blackly comic vision of Dublin infested with singing serial killers, avenging angels and lovesick demons | ||||