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MARK WARD |
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Nationality: Irish Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Plays by Mark Ward |
Middle Distance, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cobalt Cafe, as part of the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival 2010 | 10 May 2010 | ||||
Company: | A Stint in Your Spotlight | |||||
| 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 | #132084 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | The Middle Distance, a one-act play, was presented as part of the Theatre Shorts programme in week two of the 2010 International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. Subsequently, it was invited to be part of Cork's Solstice Festival, where it was staged again on Saturday 18th June 2011. Both productions were directed by Shane Carr and starred Daithí MacSuibhne as Jonny and Brian-Mc Hale-Boyle as Stephen | |||||
Synopsis: | In a place where talking is frowned upon, two men are having a conversation. Jonny has been coming to the sauna more and more, trying to distract himself from the emptiness he's lost in, looking for some way through. And he finds Stephen, an easy going farmer's son from Sligo, looking for his own kind of respite. | |||||
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Saliva | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cobalt Cafe, as part of the 2011 International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival | 09 May 2011 | ||||
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 | #132085 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Saliva, a one-act play, was presented as part of the Irish Theatre Shorts programme in week two of the 2011 International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. It was directed by Emma Weafer and starred Grace Kelley as Glau and Shani Williams as Polly. | |||||
Synopsis: | Held against her will, in accordance with her celebrity father's wishes, nineteen year old Glau is impatiently whiling away the hours being taught how to read the Tarot by her mother's spiritual consultant, Polly. Plus it's only two weeks since her mother's suicide; tensions are running high, and secrets are on the verge of being discovered with the turn of a card. Saliva is a smart, chilling modern update of the Greek myth of Glaucos and Polyidus | |||||
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Stint In Your Spotlight | ||
| 1st Produced: | The George, as part of the 2008 International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival | 18 May 2008 | ||||
Company: | Gaiety School of Acting | |||||
| 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 | #84169 | |||
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: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 3 | |||||
Notes: | A Stint in Your Spotlight was presented as a full-cast rehearsed reading, as part of the 2008 International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. It was directed by Antoinette Duffy and starred Cormac O'Donovan, Damien O'Donnell, Donal O'Leary, Jonny Benson, Elizabeth McGrath, Paul Flood, Siobhan Whelan, Lorna Kennedy, Marilyn Bane and Fiona Colhoun. | |||||
Synopsis: | Show-business has always been rough but Jack Harrison is washed up at the grand old age of twenty-eight. Following a brief, but illustrious career, Jack's marriage to his wife Cristal went downhill rapidly as he descended into drug addiction trying to forget who he really wanted - Danny; a premiership footballer and love of his life. Three years later, Jack's career is as fractured as his relationships. The drink, drugs and the wild days are long gone and he has become a semi-recluse, living out his life quietly in his apartment until three drama students approach him, wanting to make a play about his life, about his past. Could this be what gets him back on track? Will this be the push that's needed? And will everything be as it seems? A Stint in Your Spotlight is funny and touching play about fame, love and playmaking by new Irish playwright, Mark Ward | |||||
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