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Paul Mercier

PAUL MERCIER

  
Nationality:    Irish
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Paul Mercier is a founding member and artistic director of the Passion Machine Theatre company. His plays have received numerous awards such as the Harvey's Irish Theatre Award for Best New Irish Work, the Sunday Independent Arts Award, the Sunday Tribune Arts Award, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and an Edinburgh Fringe First Award. His 1998 Dublin Trilogy received the Evening Herald/Dublin Theatre Festival Award for Best Irish Production and the Irish Times/ESB Irish Theatre Award for Best Production. He has written and directed two award-winning short films for Brother Films, 'Before I Sleep' and 'Lipservice'.

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

         Buddleia         Diarmud And Grainne         Down the Line         Drowning         East Pier         Home         Homeland         Kitchensink         Native City         Pilgrims         Spacers         Studs         Wasters         We Ourselves
Buddleia

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the Passion Machine

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  43            Female:  12            Other:  doubling possible

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Diarmud And Grainne

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Taibhdhearc Na Gallimhe     2001

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the Passion Machine

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  9            Female:  1            Other:  doubling possible

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Down the Line

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Play/Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Drowning

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Genre:
the Rock Musical

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Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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East Pier

Synopsis:
Kevin meets Jean for the first time since they were teenagers. Kevin has been racked with guilt for years since forcing Jean to have sex on the pier. But Jean tells him that she wanted to do it with him

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1st Produced:
Abbey Theatre, Dublin     11 Mar 2011

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Drama

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Home

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the Passion Machine

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the Passion Machine (1872313051), 1989   

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  15            Female:  5            Other:  doubling possible

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Homeland

Synopsis:
Tthe main character, Jerry Newman, making a brief return to Ireland from "Heaven" (a villa in Italy) to do some consultancy work. Loosely based on the Celtic myth of Oisin, the play extends Mercier's favoured theme of the search for values in a changing Ireland: "We used to have an inferiority complex. Now we have an airport complex."
Karen Fricker, the Guardian

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Play/Drama

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Kitchensink

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Native City

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1st Produced:
Tivoli Theatre, Dublin     1998

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the Passion Machine

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  75            Female:  32            Other:  doubling possible

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Pilgrims

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Spacers

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Studs

Synopsis:
tells the story of the Rovers, a hopeless local soccer team from Dublin's Northside, who are galvanised by their new manager, Walter - a stranger in town who carries a vague mystique of past glories on the pitch.

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Male:  12            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Wasters

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Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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We Ourselves

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1st Produced:
Vicar Street, Dublin     2000

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Genre:
seven consecutive monologues

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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