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ABBIE SPALLEN |
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Nationality: Irish Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: United Agents represented by Rose Cobbe |
Abbie Spallen was awarded the Dublin City Council Bursary for Literature in 2005 and was the recipient of the Tony Doyle Award 2007 for her first feature length screenplay SEVEN DRUNKEN KNIGHTS. Her play PUMPGIRL played at the Bush Theatre, Traverse and MTC and was awarded the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and Stuart Parker Trust Major Award as well as being nominated for the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best New Play. It has since been performed across America and, most recently, in Finland. Abbie's most recent play, STRANDLINE, was nominated for both the Meyer Whitworth and Susan Smith Blackburn Awards. Both PUMPGIRL and STRANDLINE are published by Faber. She has completed attachments at the Royal Court and National Theatre. She has been awarded bursaries by the Arts Counil of Northern Ireland and the Peggy Ramsay Foundation and recently won the Halma Foundation Award for Excellence in the European Arts.
Plays by Abbie Spallen
Abeyance | ||
| 1st Produced: | Druid Theatre Company | 2001 | ||||
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| 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 | #56234 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Alice Kyteler | ||
| 1st Produced: | rehearsed reading Galloglass Theatre Company | - - - | ||||
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| 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 | #56235 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Epiphany | ||
| 1st Produced: | Semper Fi | - - - | ||||
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| 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 | #56237 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of Semper Fi's "Another 24 Hours" | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Pumpgirl | ||
| 1st Produced: | Traverse Theatre 2, Edinburgh, UK >>>; Theatre Record Vol XXVI (2006) Page 1088 | 07 Aug 2006 | ||||
Company: | Bush Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber (3 Aug 2006) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571234226 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55931 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Winner of 2007 Susan Smith Blackburn Award. | |||||
| series of monologues about marital infidelity and the gang rape of a petrol-station attendant in the badlands of County Armagh. | |||||
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Rubberfoot | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pentabus | 2009 | ||||
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| 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 | #139779 | |||
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Shaving the Pickle | ||
| 1st Produced: | Origin Theatre Company, New York | 2008 | ||||
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 | #139777 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
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Notes: | 1st Irish Festival 2008 | |||||
Synopsis: | New York the future. Coney Island is a detention centre. The only train that runs is the 6. It is swelteringly hot. Bob shares his shelter with an old woman. A former stripper turns up and everything changes | |||||
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Strandline | ||
| 1st Produced: | 19 Nov 2009 | |||||
Company: | Fishamble Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber (3 Dec 2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571255719 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122558 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
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| If you push too far, secrets will out . . . Following the death of her husband, Máirín, an artist and an outsider living in a small coastal village in Northern Ireland, gathers three local women to her house. Each of the women has a reason for being there and a bloody good reason not to be. These women have secrets. This community has secrets. And, as the evening passes, Máirín learns more than she bargained for about the man she had loved. | |||||
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Thirteen | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2010 | |||||
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 | #139780 | |||
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Notes: | Part of 'Women, Power & Politics' | |||||
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Two Magpies | ||
| 1st Produced: | EBS Dublin Festival | - - - | ||||
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| 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 | #56236 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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