Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)
...I’m having absolutely nothing to do with the theatre or the human race. They can all go to hell. – Anton Chekhov
During the turmoil of the Russian Revolution in 1917, Maria Chekhov, Anton’s sister, placed many of her late...
Roles: Total (2), Female (0), Male (2), Unassigned (0)
...Dead Centre’s new solo work for an eleven -year-old boy is devoted to Shakespeare’s only son, Hamnet, who died in 1596, only eleven himself.
A single letter separates Hamnet from the philosophical heights of Hamlet. Unlike...
~playauthor~Written by~
Bush Moukarzel
,
Mark O'Halloran
,
Dead Centre
Oberon Books, 2014
Oberon Modern Plays
playtext
Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (9), Female (5), Male (2), Unassigned (2)
...In 2000 in Leixlip, co. Kildare, an aunt and 3 sisters boarded themselves into their home and entered into a suicide pact that lasted 40 days. We weren’t there. We don’t know what they said. This is not their story.
Winner...
~playauthor~Written by~
Mark O’Connell
,
Dead Centre
,
Caridad Svich
~playauthor~Edited by~
Caridad Svich
Methuen Drama, 2025
Methuen Drama Play Collections
playtext
...Between 2020 and 2022, with the global pandemic, theatre had to adapt and, in doing so, challenged ideas of what was possible – and what was even theatre.
Based on the book by Mark O’Connell, To Be a Machine...