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Peter Sheridan

PETER SHERIDAN

  (1952 - )
Nationality:    Irish
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Peter Sheridan's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Peter Sheridan's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         47 Roses         Are You Havin' A Laugh?         Billy Club Puppets, The         Break A Leg         Diary Of A Hunger Strike         Down all the Days         Emigrants         Finders Keepers         Illusion, The         Lake Horses         Liberty Suit, The         Mother of All the Behans         No Entry         Paint It Black         Rock and Roll Show, The         Shades of the Jelly Woman (Part One)         Women at Work: Same Sweat-Different Pay

47 Roses

Synopsis:
A son discovers - after his father's death - that he had a long standing affair

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Bewley's Cafe Theatre, Dublin    15 Mar 2011

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 09 Page 445

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Are You Havin' A Laugh?

Synopsis:
Is there such a thing as Irish humour? Or Jewish humour? Or New York humour? And what about Jewish and New York combined? There is a clip of Woody Allen from his early stand-up career. He takes a silver watch from his pocket and holds it up. "This watch means a lot to me. My grandfather, he sold it to me on his deathbed" I've been a collector of stories since I was at school. I remember our third class teacher, Brother Wilson, telling us that he was going to improve our chances of getting a job after school by teaching us elocution. Jimmy Kinsella, who sat beside me, put his hand up and asked, "What sort of sums are they, Brother?" I have long been fascinated by what makes Dublin stories resonate in their particular way. We all have our favourite northside/southside jokes. But there is more to it than a social division delineated by the river. To begin with, I've gone back to the Irish language. We lost it, it was a catastrophe, but we brought much of the Gaelic rhythms and patterns to the way we spoke the new language, English. The tension caused by the clash of the two languages is at the core of what makes the English spoken in Ireland unique and idiosyncratic.

Notes:
part of DUBLIN: ONE CITY ONE BOOK, 2015

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Music:
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Genre:
show

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Billy Club Puppets, The

Synopsis:
An adaptation of Lorca's comedy using music, movement and mime in which humans play delinquent puppets. the story tells of passionate puppet love and broken sawdust hearts

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Dublin Writers Museum, Dublin    1992

Organisations:
Second Level Theatre Project

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation One Act

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Break A Leg

Synopsis:
BREAK A LEG is Peter Sheridans new one-man show based on his recently published memoir by the same name. Exploring the story of his life in the theatre, it features so much more. An insightful work which touches the wider culture and politics of Ireland in 1960s and 1970s. A wonderful evocation of Ireland of that era through the prism of one mans unique experience. the theatre, seen through Sheridans eyes, can do much more than entertain: it can itself be a vehicle of social change. In Break a Leg, Peter Sheridan tells the story of his life from his early teens through to adulthood and his decision to move to the USA. Along the way Peter grows up, explores his sexuality, finds love and has children, makes theatre, gains and loses friends and writes openly, honestly and movingly about his experiences.

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Diary Of A Hunger Strike

Synopsis:
Diary of a Hunger Strike investigates the complex and controversial issues surrounding the H-block hunger strike. Day 52, the warder once again leaves the tray of food near the semi-conscious person. Even were he willing, he would be unable to digest the meal as his bodily functions have regressed too far. But the warder will persist with the gesture of offering food. Both men are trapped, one by the ravages of enforced hunger, the other by the enforcement of meaningless rituals. But there is pressure on his relatives and the Church to save his life. the word is that the Government will not back down. That's official.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Round House, London    1982

Organisations:
Hull truck Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Down all the Days

Synopsis:
Down all the Days focuses on the childhood and coming of age of a young man with cerebral palsy. He acts as a detached observer of life in the slums of Dublin, during the 1940s and 50s

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Oscar Theatre, Dublin    1982

Organisations:
Oscar Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  5            Other:  doubling possible

Further Reference:
-

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Emigrants

Synopsis:
Emigrants explores the cause and results of the massive emigration from Ireland to England in the 19th century. the short trip across the Irish sea was seen by many as the only escape from death.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Clifden Labour Club, Blackpool, England    1978

Organisations:
Pirate Jenny Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  3            Other:  doubling possible

Further Reference:
-

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Finders Keepers

Synopsis:
Set in North Inner City Dublin, Finders Keepers is the coming of age story of Pancho, his best friend Redser and their urgent young lives spent on the Royal Canal. Set against the background of the declining Dublin Docklands of the early 1970's, the play brings to life the larger than life world of the teenage imagination

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1st Published:
Irish Writers' Co-Operative, Ireland, 1979   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Illusion, The

Synopsis:
Pridamont desperately wants to heal the wounds of his ten-year estrangement from his son Clindor. On the search for his son, the Father once again unearths the prejudices that separated them in the first place. A drag artist in a Parisian nightclub, Clindor is the antithesis of Pridamont's sexual model.

Notes:
An adaptation of 'L'Illusion Comique' by Corneille.

1st Produced:
Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin    05 Oct 1993

Organisations:
Charabanc Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=554

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Lake Horses

Synopsis:
Jimmy is a troubled young man. the loss of his Father three years ago has provoked a crisis that is about to erupt. This rite-of-passage story charts Jimmy's struggle to come to terms with his life. - http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=991

Notes:
devised by the company and scripted by Paul Conway, Gerard Lee, Judy Lunny, Michelle Manahan And Peter Sheridan

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Second Level Theatre Project

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
TYA one act

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Liberty Suit, The

Synopsis:
the action takes place in a Dublin juvenile prison over the course of two years. the story of a young man who has been institutionalised in various reformatories, now serving a sentence for arson in a prison for young offenders

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:

1st Published:
Irish Writers' Co-Operative, Ireland, 1978   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  16            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Mother of All the Behans

Synopsis:
the life of Kathleen Behan, mother of the Irish playwright, Brendan Behan

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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No Entry

Synopsis:
An account of a young man's escape from a violent society. Robert is unhappy and unsettled in various institutions. He responds to his environment with violence, and ultimately with emigration.

Notes:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Paint It Black

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Project Arts Centre, Dublin    04 Aug 1971

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Surrealist

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Rock and Roll Show, The

Synopsis:
Set in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Rock and Roll Show follows the difficulties experienced by a group of young Irish musicians as they try to assert themselves and their music.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Project Arts Centre, Dublin In association with Dublin Theatre Festival, Ireland

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  4            Other:  doubling possible

Further Reference:
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Shades of the Jelly Woman (Part One)

Synopsis:
Shades of the Jelly Woman is an exploration of working class life in Dublin in the 1940s and 1950s.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Mud Island Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Women at Work: Same Sweat-Different Pay

Synopsis:
explores the issues behind equal pay for women.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Part Of A Tour To Schools    1976

Organisations:

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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