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Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy

MARY ELIZABETH BURKE-KENNEDY  

 Nationality:    Irish
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 Alice In Wonderland         Currigh The Shape Shifter         Daughters         Emma         Enter The Photographer         Golden Goose, The         Hansel And Gretel         Hard Times         Legends         Mayor Of Casterbridge, The         Mysteries 2000         Nose, The         Oedipus         Parrot, The         Silas Marner         Star Child And Other Stories, The         Trial Of Esther Waters, The         Uncle Silas         Wind Of The Word, The         Women In Arms         Wuthering Heights

Alice In Wonderland

Synopsis:
The adventures of a young girl in an imaginary world

Notes:
an Adaptation of the original novel by Lewis Carroll.

1st Produced:
Focus Theatre, Dublin    1979

Organisations:
Focus Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  cross casting necessary

Further Reference:
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Currigh The Shape Shifter

Synopsis:
Curigh The Shape Shifter tells of the legend of Caherconree, a promontory fort, high in the middle of the Slieve Mish mountains.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Focus Theatre, Dublin    1980

Organisations:
Focus Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Daughters

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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Organisations:
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Play/Drama

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Emma

Synopsis:
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Notes:
from the original novel by Jane Austen

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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Enter The Photographer

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Golden Goose, The

Synopsis:
an adaptation of the classic fairy tale

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Focus Theatre, Dublin    1979

Organisations:
Focus Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Hansel And Gretel

Synopsis:
The story of two children who are abandoned by their parents in a time of famine. Lost in the depths of the forest, they think they have found rescue when they discover a house made of food. The house, however, is owned by a witch, who has sinister designs on Hansel and Gretel.

Notes:
adapted from the classic fairy tale

1st Produced:

Organisations:

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  cross casting necessary

Further Reference:
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Hard Times

Synopsis:
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Notes:
from the original novel by Charles Dickens.

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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  6            Other:  doubling possible

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Legends

Synopsis:
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Notes:
adapted from 'Tadgh O Cathan And the Corpse' by W.B. Yeats, literally translated from the Irish by Douglas Hyde And from 'The Legend of Knockgrafton' by T. Crofton Croker

1st Produced:
Focus Theatre, Dublin    1980

Organisations:
Focus Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Mayor Of Casterbridge, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
adapted from the original novel by Thomas Hardy.

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  doubling possible

Further Reference:
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Mysteries 2000

Synopsis:
Mysteries 2000 was a millennium project where fifteen writers were commissioned to produce new versions of sections of the Mystery plays. The plays were as follows: 'The Fall of Lucifer', 'Creation', 'Jesus, Mary & Joseph' and 'Judgement Day' by Michael McCaffery; 'Cain and abel' and 'The Last Supper' by aidan Matthews; 'Noah' by Fergus Linehan; 'abraham & Isaac' by Johnny Hanrahan; 'moses' by Joe O'Byrne; 'Temptation' and 'The adulteress Woman' by Joseph O'Connor; 'Parliament of Heaven', 'The Seven Deadly Virtues' and 'Council of Jews' by Derek Chapman; 'The Death of Herod' by Pat Kinevane; 'John the Baptist' by Declan Gorman; 'my Mind of Questions' and 'Betrayal' by Brendan Kennelly; 'Lazarus', 'Buffeting' and 'Harrowing of Hell' by Gavin Kostick; 'Pilate's Wife' by Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy; 'The Death of Judas' by Michael Scott; 'ascension' by Deirdre Purcell and 'Song of Songs' by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill.

Notes:
a new Adaptation of the Mystery Plays (author unknown) written by Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy, Derek Chapman, Declan Gorman, Johnny Hanrahan, Brendan Kennelly, Pat Kinevane, Gavin Kostick, Fergus Linehan, Aidan Mathews, Michael McCaffery, Nuala Ni Dhomhn

1st Produced:

Organisations:
The Machine

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  10            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Nose, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
adapted from Nikolai Gogol's original.

1st Produced:
Player's Theatre    1983

Organisations:
Kalendar Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Oedipus

Synopsis:
The story of a charismatic leader setting out to investigate corruption in his state, with devastating consequences for himself and for his family. Oedipus is the myth of a child born to a prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother.

Notes:
a version of the myth.

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Organisations:

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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  4            Other:  chorus

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Parrot, The

Synopsis:
The Parrot is based on an old Italian folk tale. The story is told by a down-at-hell parrot, who befriends a young girl. His story is about a princess who was so lonely that she had a life-sized doll of herself made to keep her company. One day the doll is kidnapped by robbers, who seize her carriage.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Round Room in the Mansion House, Dublin.    1983

Organisations:
Tadhg O'Kane Players in conjunction with the Dublin Theatre Festival

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Silas Marner

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
adapted from the original novel by George Eliot.

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1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Star Child And Other Stories, The

Synopsis:
Three of Oscar Wilde's classic fairy tales - The Star Child, The Happy Prince and The Selfish Giant - are woven together and adapted for the stage.

Notes:
adapted from Oscar Wilde's original short stories.

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Organisations:

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  puppets

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Trial Of Esther Waters, The

Synopsis:
By virtue of her origin as a Victorian slum child, Esther Waters is condemned to a life of physical and economic slavery. She is a loser, an outsider and all the social and religious forces of her time conspire to keep her in that position, but she claims her rights as a woman and as a worker.

Notes:
adapted from the original novel by George Moore.

1st Produced:
John Player Theatre    1989

Organisations:

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  8            Other:  doubling possible

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Uncle Silas

Synopsis:
Maud Ruthyn is an only child, brought up on a vast estate by her self-righteous father, austin. She becomes obsessed with her Uncle Silas, whose elegant and haunting image she discovers in family portraits. When she hears rumours of his decadent living and disgrace she begins a crUSAde to reclaim him to the family.

Notes:
adapted from the novel by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Theatre of Open Secrets

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  8            Other:  doubling possible

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Wind Of The Word, The

Synopsis:
a theatrical telling of the legend Labhrai Lionsaigh, the king with the donkey's ears. To hide his dread secret, Labhrai remains aloof and cold to all, including the princess who loves him. Deep in the forest on a hunting trip, Labhrai asks a young woodcutter to cut his hair. Seeing the king's ears, the woodcutter is bound to keep the king's secret. Unable to confide it even to his mother, the woodcutter becomes withdrawn and secretive. a druid tells the woodcutter to travel alone into the forest and tell it to the Tree of Good Counsel. as the wind rustles the leaves of the tree, the secret is whispered onto the wind.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
tour to schools    1981

Organisations:

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
play for primary school students

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Women In Arms

Synopsis:
Women in arms draws extensively from the great epic poem Tain Bo Cuailgne, to assert through the stories of Nessa, Macha, Deirdre and Maeve an alternative to the feeble, effete view of women in Irish history.

Notes:
adapted from the epic poem Tain Bo Cuailgne.

1st Produced:
Ivernia Theatre, Cork    1984

Organisations:
Cork Theatre Company

1st Published:
in Seen and Heard: Six New Plays by Irish Women, ed Cathy Leeney, Carysfort Press, Dublin, 2001   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Wuthering Heights

Synopsis:
The lives of the Earnshaw and Linton families are changed forever by the tempestuous love affair of Heathcliff and Cathy.

Notes:
adapted from the original novel by Emily Bronte.

1st Produced:

Organisations:

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  5            Other:  doubling possible

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