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Paul Vincent Carroll

PAUL VINCENT CARROLL  (1900 - 1968)

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 Beauty Is Fled         Coggerers         Conspiracy, The         Death Closes All         Devil Came From Dublin, The         Farewell To Greatness!         Goodbye To The Summer         Green Cars Go East         His Excellency The Governor         Interlude         Kindred         King Who Could Not Laugh, The         Maker Of Roads         Old Foolishness         Shadow And Substance         Strings My Lord Are False, The         Things That Are Caesar's         Watched Pot         Wayward Saint, The         White Steed, The         Wise Have Not Spoken, The

Beauty Is Fled

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Contained in: "Irish Stories and Plays" published by Devin adair 1958   -

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Coggerers

Synopsis:
1916. The library charwoman's son Owen has been persuaded to join the Uprising. Statutes in the library of men he had admired discuss this with her

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also known As "The Conspirators"

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One act

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Male:  7            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Conspiracy, The

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Samuel French Ltd, London 1947   -

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Death Closes All

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Samuel French Ltd, London 1947   -

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Devil Came From Dublin, The

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John Drew Memorial Theatre, New York    1951

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Contained in: "Irish Stories and Plays" published by Devin Adair 1958   -

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Farewell To Greatness!

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Life and loves of Dean Jonathan Swift

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-    1966

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Proscenium Press 1966   -

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Goodbye To The Summer

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Proscenium Press 1970   978-0912262215

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Drama

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Green Cars Go East

Synopsis:
Life in the Glasgow slums

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Samuel French Ltd, London 1947   -

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Drama

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His Excellency The Governor

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Samuel French Ltd, London 1947   -

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Genre:
Youth one act

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Interlude

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Contained in: "Irish Stories and Plays" published by Devin-adair Publishers 1958   978-0815958185

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Kindred

Synopsis:
a woman meets the son she feels should have been hers. Many years before, she was due to marry a young artist when he ran off with another woman and later committed suicide

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Revised And retitled "The Secret Kindred"

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Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  -

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King Who Could Not Laugh, The

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Samuel French Ltd, London 1947   -

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Genre:
Childrens play

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Maker Of Roads

Synopsis:
Martyrdom of Saint Alban

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Samuel French Ltd, London 1947   -

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Religious play

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Old Foolishness

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-    1940

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Samuel French Ltd, London   -

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Shadow And Substance

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In the words of George Jean Nathan, the play "deals with the Catholic Church in Ireland. Its theme lies in the ramifications of faith as practiced by the Church's various constituents. . .faith that, for all its sincerity, has drifted from its deepest moorings, and the manner in which a true, steadfast, innocent, and unselfish believer, a young girl, brings the contentious others, through the uncorrupted purity and simplicity of her own faith, back to first principles. and the role of the young girl, a little caretaker in the house of the canon, though built out of materials that in cruder hands would quickly betray their spirit and such a restrained gentility of writing ink that, if it is cast at all appropriately, it can hardly fail to dig into an audience's emotions. The straw out of which Carroll has fabricated his bricks and built his play is of a superior quality, and his dramatic structure, as a consequence, mounts aloft with eloquence and power."

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It received the Critics' Award As the best play written by A foreign playwright

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Samuel French, 1944   -

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Genre:
Four act play

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Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Strings My Lord Are False, The

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a group of people seek shelter in the crypt of a church during an air raid in Glasgow during the Second World War

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-    1942

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Contained in: "Three Plays" published by Macmillan 1944   -

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Male:  17            Female:  17            Other:  -

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Things That Are Caesar's

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a mother tries to get her daughter to marry a wealthy man - so the she can use some of his money to renovate her pub

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Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Watched Pot

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Wayward Saint, The

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as told by Kerr, "Canon Daniel McCooey, a potato-faced old fellow with a sheep's head of hair, has been working far too many 'miracles' for his Bishop's peace of mind. He's been talking to birds and animals, for one thing ('If only I'd studied some one besides St. Francis,' mourns the unlucky parish priest), and he's somehow or other managed to get a cherry tree to produce plums. Though he isn't at all proud of himself and regards the gossip that he is a saint as a scandal, he still must be hustled out of sight. The pained Bishop. . .deposits him in a remote country rectory that's a 'sweet little hole, but terrible out of the way,' deprives him of his beloved animals, and puts him to work knitting ecclesiastical socks. . .a mysterious baron with a faint odor of sulphur about him, turns up, a friendly lion strolls in at the garden window, the padre learns a few new tricks from the baron and begins to preen himself on his supernatural powers, and-well, at eleven o'clock he's perched in a chair ten feet off the floor be

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1st Produced:
Berkshire Theatre Festival Main Stage, Ma    1956

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in manuscript Dramatists Play Service, New York,    -

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Genre:
Comedy/Fantasy Comedy

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Male:  7            Female:  4            Other:  -

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White Steed, The

Synopsis:
an elderly priest in an Irish parish has had a stroke and is confined to a wheelchair. a temporary priest is sent to take over his duties but his manner soon sows seeds of discontent in the parish - leading to outright confrontation

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1st Produced:
John Golden Theatre, New York    10 Jan 1939

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Samuel French Inc, New York   -

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Play/Drama

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Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Wise Have Not Spoken, The

Synopsis:
a stirring play by one of Ireland's outstanding dramatists. Produced in New York. an eloquent and passionate work, in the best of the Irish theatrical tradition. "a dramatic work of striking interest. . .lovely and moving. . .as usual in his plays, Mr. Carroll is preoccupied with the spiritual state of troubled and contemporary Ireland. . .The chief antagonists are a priest, this time one who has been 'silenced' by the Church, and an atheist, here a violent young radical, who had fought against Fascism in Spain and had learned to place his reliance in the use of force. There is a lot of rich humor in the play, but it is basically serious and tragic." -NY Post

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  12            Female:  2            Other:  -

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