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Sean O'Brien

SEAN O'BRIEN  (1952 - )

 Nationality:    English
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below is a list of Sean O'Brien's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Birds, The         Don Gil of the Green Breeches         From the Underworld         Keepers Of the Flame         Laughter When We're Dead         NE1         Philosophers

Birds, The

Birds, The
Don Gil de la Calzas Verdes (1615) by Tirso de Molina, in a new translation by Sean O'Brien. Directed by Mehmet Ergen. Don Gil of the Green Breeches is an exuberant comedy which blends mistaken identity, role-reversal, ghosts and green trousers. Dona Juana has fallen for the oldest trick in the book. the dashing Don Martin, the man she thought she was going to marry, has left her for the wealthy Dona ines. But Dona Juana is not the sort of woman to take this lying down. . .She pulls on a pair of green breeches and sets off to Madrid in hot pursuit of Don Martin, assuming the same name he is using to woo his new lover - a strategy which will either cause a change of heart or complete chaos. . .Written by Tirso de Molina, this deliciously anarchic and original comedy has been translated by Sean OBrien, an award-winning English poet, critic and playwright. His prizes include the Somerset Maugham Award, the Cholmondeley Award, the Forward Poetry Prize and the T. S.Eliot Prize.

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Original Playwright - Aristophanes

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Methuen Drama    978-0413772787

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Don Gil of the Green Breeches

Synopsis:
Richard Jameson was an extreme right-wing English poet of the 1930s. A member of the British Fascist Party, he narrowly escaped execution in World War Two. Jameson is now and old widower living in the ruins of a great house on the Northumberland coast, writing his memoirs and awaiting death. But enemies past and present are closing in...a grim, exciting tale of love, death, art and politics.

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Original Playwright - Tirso de Molina

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translation

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From the Underworld

Synopsis:
The city is burning, the war lost, the regime doomed. In the kitchen of the deepest bunker, Anna and Thomas, two loyal servants, wonder how they got there and whether there's any way out.

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Live Theatre Company

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Keepers Of the Flame

Synopsis:
Political Verse Drama. Laughter When We're Dead is a fast moving, sharply observed verse play about the past, present and future of the Labour Party. Telling a ferocious tale of public power and private passions, this stunningly bold drama unravels the lives and loves of characters who live and die at the extremes of desire and bitter hilarity.

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Laughter When We're Dead

Synopsis:
modern revenge tragedy set around the politics of old versus new labour

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Genre:
political verse drama

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  doubling

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NE1

Synopsis:
life on Tyneside in the year 2000

Notes:
part of A show of 12 monologues

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Live Theatre Company

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Genre:
short monologue

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Philosophers

Synopsis:
Be part of the audience for a live broadcast of three new short plays by Sean O'Brien, Julia Darling and Peter Straughan. Each writer will create a new play about a philosopher who has had a connection with Newcastle or the North East. The plays promise to give a surreal and humorous view of the philosophers and their beliefs. The evening will begin with readings of new work by Sean and Julia.

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BBC Radio and Live Theatre

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Genre:
short play

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