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Lee Dunne

LEE DUNNE  

 Nationality:    Irish
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Lee Dunne is a novelist, playwright and short story writer. His debut novel 'Goodbye to the Hill' (1965) has sold well over a million copies; the stage adaptation (listed below) became one of the longest-running plays in Irish Theatre history. Now in his seventies, Lee Dunne lives in County Wicklow. - Irish Playography

Research:    http://www.irishplayography.com/person.aspx?personid=5648

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

         Does Your Mother?         Full Shilling, The         Goodbye To the Hill

Does Your Mother?

Synopsis:
the play is set in Hell's Kitchen, a slum block of single room apartments in Dublin in 1946.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Olympia Theatre, Dublin >>>    20 Feb 1979

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=935

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Full Shilling, The

Synopsis:
Ted Johnstone is on the rocks. He's a drinker. A one time novelist, he now occasionally writes for a local Dublin newspaper, covering a football match every now and again. What he needs is love, but from whom is he seeking it?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Third Limerick Festival of theatre    Jan 1971

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1731

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Goodbye To the Hill

Synopsis:
By the age of ten you knew all about puddin clubs and doses of the pox and you smiled sardonically, even though you didnt know that thats what you were doing, whenever anyone talked about Santy Claus and the Stork and all that rubbish. And when Joe Soap got married after seven Mass on a weekday you knew that his missus was going to spend her honeymoon the labour ward at the Rotunda. That was how it was on the Hill you learned fast whether you wanted to or not.

Notes:
Adapted from the author's own novel of the same name.

1st Produced:
eblana Theatre, Dublin    04 Sep 1976

Organisations:
Trio Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1279

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