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Stewart Parker

STEWART PARKER   (1942 - 1988)

Nationality:   Irish    Email:   n/a   Website:   n/a

Literary Agent:  Alexandra Cann Representation  

born in Belfast in 1941. His first stage play, 'Spokesong', won the 1976 Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award and his 1987 play, 'Pentecost', won the Harvey's Irish Theatre Award. Plays for radio include 'The Iceberg' and 'The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner'. Film and TV credits include 'Eat The Peach' and 'I'm a Dreamer, Montreal', 'Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain', 'Blue Money' and 'Lost Belongings'. Stewart Parker died in 1988.

Plays by Stewart Parker

STEWART PARKER

Actress And The Bishop, The

1st Produced:

King's Head Theatre, 115 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 1QN >>>

1976

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#26966

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Genre:

Short play One Act

Parts:

Male

1

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

the love between an actress and a young bishop is blighted by verbal embarrassment

Further Reference:

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STEWART PARKER

Catchpenny Twist

1st Produced:

Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage, Dublin >>>

1977

Company:

Abbey Theatre, Dublin >>>

1st Published:

Gallery Press, Dublin, 1980

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Charade

Parts:

Male

3

Female

4

Parts other:

musicians

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Dismissed from their teaching jobs, two young Belfast songwriters form a songwriting outfit to churn out fodder for all occasions, including Protestant ditties and instant Catholic ballads to fallen heroes. After receiving two live bullets through the post and warnings from an old teaching colleague, they set off in flight to Dublin and then to London. Success seems at hand, Belfast seems very far away. . . but for how long?

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STEWART PARKER

Heavenly Bodies

1st Produced:

Birmingham Rep, Birmingham, UK >>>

1986

Company:

Birmingham Rep, Birmingham, UK >>>

1st Published:

in "Three Plays for Ireland", Oberon, London, 1989

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#26968

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

9

Female

3

Parts other:

students

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

A recreation of the highs and lows of one of Irish theatre's legendary figures which raises interesting current questions about celebrity, success and the responsibility of the playwright to his own place and people. This stage biography, written in the style of Victorian melodrama, dramatises the struggle between Boucicault's creativity and the socio-cultural and political forces of the time.

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STEWART PARKER

Kingdom Come

1st Produced:

King's Head Theatre, 115 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 1QN >>>

1978

Company:

n/a

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

#26969

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Genre:

Musical

Parts:

Male

5

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

music by Shaun Davey

Synopsis:

the factions on a Caribbean Island, originally colonised by the Irish, are defined through creed instead of colour

Further Reference:

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STEWART PARKER

Nightshade

1st Produced:

Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage, Dublin >>>

1980

Company:

Abbey Theatre, Dublin >>>

1st Published:

Co-op Books, Dublin, 1980

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#26970

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Genre:

Black Comedy Comedy

Parts:

Male

6

Female

4

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

The story of Quinn, a mortician, who performs as an amateur magician, ably assisted by his attractive but morbid tap-dancing daughter, Delia. The disappearance (and death?) of his wife, a strike of coffin-bearers, and the subsequent collapse of the business lead him to a complete breakdown and a kind of living death. Images, allegories, and fairy-tales are all mixed in with bewildering complexity

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STEWART PARKER

Northern Star

1st Produced:

Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Ireland >>>

1984

Company:

Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Ireland >>>

1st Published:

in "Three Plays for Ireland", Oberon, London, 1989

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#26971

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

18

Female

6

Parts other:

doubling possible

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

After the "botched birth" of the 1798 rebellion, Henry Joy McCracken struggles to compose his last address to the people of Belfast before he hangs, and recalls the seven ages of his life, from youthful idealism to disillusion and despair. Each age is presented in the style of a famous Irish writer, including Boucicault, Behan and Beckett. In the end, his last words are drowned out by the thump of a Lambeg drum

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STEWART PARKER

Pentecost

1st Produced:

Guildhall, Derry, Ireland

1987

Company:

Field Day Theatre Company

1st Published:

in "Three Plays for Ireland", Oberon, London, 1989

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#26972

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

2

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Four people are gathered together in a Belfast working-class parlour-house where, against the background of the Ulster Workers' Strike, they work out their relationships to each other, to the world outside, to the past. Only Marian is aware of a fifth presence - the ghost of Lily Matthews, the previous occupant.

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STEWART PARKER

Pratt's Fall

1st Produced:

Tron Theatre, Glasgow, UK >>>

1983

Company:

Tron Theatre, Glasgow, UK >>>

1st Published:

in Stewart Parker Plays 1, Methuen, London, 2000

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

17

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Having found an old map which seems to prove that the Irish discovered America. George Mahoney seduces Map Curator Victoria Pratt with it.

Further Reference:

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STEWART PARKER

Spokesong

1st Produced:

King's Head Theatre, 115 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 1QN >>>

1975

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

published in Plays and Players, 1976

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play with Music

Parts:

Male

4

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

The story of a bicycle-shop owner, Frank, who is passionately convinced that bicycles will be the salvation of the modern city. Frank is a romantic with great nostalgia for the past. His brother Julian, who had been in London, where he became an anarchist, has now returned home determined to destroy what he sees as a hopelessly corrupt society. The conflict between these two brothers lies in Parker's exploration of the roots of the present-day conflict between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland. The story really concerns Frank's painful education into the realities of Belfast life. The play includes a conventional love story and a chorus figure called the Trick Cyclist who sings most of the songs and embodies the spirit of Belfast. Jimmy Kennedy, who wrote "Red Sails in the Sunset," "Isle of Capri," and "South of the Border," did the music for the songs. There are seven songs, ranging from an 1890s music hall song to a 1930s Noel Coward type of song. Not only does the play span eighty years, but it

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STEWART PARKER

Tall Girls Have Everything

1st Produced:

Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival, KY, USA >>>

1980

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#26975

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Genre:

Short Play One Act

Parts:

Male

2

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

A quick witted American woman inspects an Irish musician's Flat for possible accomodation and challenges his various cultural biases.

Further Reference:

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