Methuen Drama, 1997

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (13), Female (5), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...John Joe Moran is a 34-year-old dreamer, a 'fooleen' of a man who can't decide whether to stick it out at home, or emigrate out to the great unknown. Instead, he toes neither line, choosing to half-working and half-dreaming his way...

Methuen Drama, 1993

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (12), Female (3), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...It will be a lean Christmas now that the villagers have failed to sell their wares at the market in the town. Glum, if not devastated, they gather in John Mahony's shop-cum-pub to sing songs, drink a little and worry for the season ahead...

Methuen Drama, 1997

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (8), Female (1), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...The uprooted Carney family live in Coventry, England. Michael, the eldest, is the exception to the cult of violence that prevails; he would live a civilised life. But he has taken the tragic step: thinking to influence his brothers, he has...

Methuen Drama, 2006

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Alice Trilogy is a haunting triptych of disappointment and gnawing sadness. Three acts, closer to monologues than conversations, show three ages in the life of Alice, an unhappy housewife. 1980, in the afternoon murk...

Methuen Drama, 2001

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (3), Female (3), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...In Bailegangaire, an endless folk story told by a senile old woman is woven through her granddaughters’ arguments and struggles to free themselves from her. Night after night, in lyrical and relentless detail, Mommo begins...

Methuen Drama, 1993

Contemporary Dramatists

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Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Fresh from an apparently successful acting career abroad, Michael has returned to his old home town; back to the youth club-turned-pub where he and his friends once hashed out their plans for the future. That pub, 'The White House', stood...

Methuen Drama, 1997

Contemporary Dramatists

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Roles: Total (12), Female (5), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...A companion piece of sorts to On the Outside, On the Inside shows the disappointing reality of the dance that others yearn so desperately to enter. It is the Teacher's Union dance, and at 6s per head entrance, only those with wages...

Methuen Drama, 1997

Contemporary Dramatists

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Roles: Total (10), Female (3), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...It is the evening of the Teacher's Union dance, and Joe and Frank can't afford to get in. Frank is on a promise with a young teacher named Anne, whom he has had to avoid meeting beforehand lest she find out he can't afford to get in....

Methuen Drama, 2010

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 15, Roles: Total (12), Female (4), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...Edward Kilcullen is the almost entirely disinherited son of a local landowner, whose legacy is reduced to one small cottage, in which live his newly acquired tenants, Anabella and her mother, both almost totally penniless...

Methuen Drama, 1994

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (3), Female (1), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...JPW King is a dynamatologist – an English purveyor of a cultish quack psychology-cum-science whose Dublin office is far from thriving; indeed his professional space is also his only domestic arrangement as he eats rough meals and sleeps...

Methuen Drama, 2006

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (12), Female (5), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Summertime, and the emigrant workers, dressed in new suits and dreams, are returning home for the annual sojourn. They are young, vigorous, and have money in their pockets, but they do not belong here anymore – and they do not belong...

Methuen Drama, 2009

Modern Plays

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Acts: 4, Scenes: 20, Roles: Total (16), Female (5), Male (11), Unassigned (0)

...An epic family drama about greed and control, telling the tragic story of the disintegration of a family, along with their estate and way of life. Arina is an ambitious woman. As a servant girl, she marries...

Methuen Drama, 1994

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...James, a temporarily retired pimp, is on the run from a shadowy pursuer. His mother has just died and he is cynical to the point of despair about what should become of him. With him is Rosie, his long-time 'girl', who encourages him...

Methuen Drama, 1994

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (4), Female (1), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Harry is an out-of-work strongman seeking employment (and shelter) in the sanctuary of a local church. The priest of the church hires him as a clerk, but insists that the arrangement can't include domestic arrangements. He must leave...

Methuen Drama, 2010

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 4, Scenes: 18, Roles: Total (22), Female (8), Male (14), Unassigned (0)

...Murphy builds a delightful, comic tale of righteousness and foolishness modelled on Oliver Goldsmith's classic eighteenth-century novel The Vicar of Wakefield. An onslaught of misfortunes has beset the Primrose family...

Methuen Drama, 2006

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (10), Female (5), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Vera O'Toole is alone, adrift and living dangerously in New York where she survives as a call-girl. But she has a sustaining thought, a dream. She is not alone, she feels, because she has a family in Ireland; she belongs; indeed, some day...

Methuen Drama, 2006

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (11), Female (5), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Christopher, a philosophy professor preparing a lecture on the work of Schopenhauer, is engaged by his son and daughter, Jack and Petra, to help rescue his brother Michael. Michael's wife, Cornelia, has died, leaving Michael in a pit...