SAM DOWLING (1931 - )
| Nationality: | Irish |
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Plays by Sam Dowling
Agamemnon |
| 1st Produced: | North Pole SE10, London | 1986 | ||||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com, 2008 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | version | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Elayne Jude. Loosely based on Greek classic | |||||
| Synopsis: | Part 1 of Oresteian Trilogy | |||||
Allegiance |
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||||
| Company: | Tabard Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Irish history | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | The IRA in London: a family divided | |||||
Antigone |
| 1st Produced: | Praxis Th. Lab, London | 1994 | ||||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Greek tragedy | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Version of the Greek tragedy written from group work | |||||
| Synopsis: | Antigone dies for a forbidden burial | |||||
Avengers, The |
| 1st Produced: | North Pole SE10, London | 1995 | ||||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com, 2008 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Elayne Jude. Loosely based on Greek classic | |||||
| Synopsis: | Part 2 of Oresteian Trilogy | |||||
Bacchae, The |
| 1st Produced: | North Pole Theatre, Greenwich | 1995 | ||||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | version of myth | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | version by Barney Ashton and Sam Dowling | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Big Fella ! |
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com, 2009 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Modern History | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Life and death of Michael Collins and friends | |||||
Birth Of The Beast, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||||
| Company: | Tabard Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Irish History | - | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Civil Rights, IRA split, birth of the Provos | |||||
Cauldron of Brontes |
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||||
| Company: | Tabard Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com, 2007 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Andrea Kealy | |||||
| Synopsis: | Novelist sisters rise, Brother Branwell falls | |||||
Cenci, The |
| 1st Produced: | North Pole SE10, London | 1997 | ||||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com, 2007 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Gothic drama | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | from Shelley | |||||
| Synopsis: | Small-cast version | |||||
Cherry Orchard |
| 1st Produced: | Boyle, Ireland | 1997 | ||||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com, 2008 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Russian drama | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | |||||
| Synopsis: | Small-cast version set in 1970s Ireland | |||||
Females, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Henryk Jachimowski. Translated by Szczesny Wronski and Sam Dowling | |||||
| Synopsis: | expressionist collage on female identity | |||||
Flame And The Stone, The |
| 1st Produced: | Boyle, Ireland | 2001 | ||||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Ireland's great love story: W.B.Yeats and Maud Gonne McBride | |||||
Ha Ha Ha |
| 1st Produced: | Maidenhead, Berkshire | 2005 | ||||
| Company: | 1157 Performance Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com, 2007 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Improvisations on Coward and Shakespeare | |||||
Hamlet |
| 1st Produced: | Praxis Th. Lab, Boyle | 2001 | ||||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com, 2008 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Classic | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Shakespeare. Small cast version | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Ibsen's Dead Awaken |
| 1st Produced: | North Pole Theatre SE10 | 1996 | ||||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com, 2007 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Euro Classic | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | may require third female | |||||
| Notes: | Small-cast version | |||||
| Synopsis: | an artist and his loves | |||||
Ibsen's Hedda Gabler |
| 1st Produced: | Praxis Th. Lab, London | 1996 | ||||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Euro Classic | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Small-cast version of the classic | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Importance of Being Earnest |
| 1st Produced: | North Pole SE10, London | 1996 | ||||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Period comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Oscar Wilde | |||||
| Synopsis: | Small-cast version of classic comedy | |||||
Lament for Art O'Laoghaire |
| 1st Produced: | Praxis Th. Lab, Boyle | 1993 | ||||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Improv | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | an experimental production based on the Irish poem | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Lovelost |
| 1st Produced: | Camden Irish Centre, London | 2004 | ||||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com, 2007 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Abuse in the Irish Industrial Schools. A Mercy nun and a Christian Brother attempt Truth And Reconciliation with their victims | |||||
Macbeth |
| 1st Produced: | Praxis Th. Lab, Boyle | 2001 | ||||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com, 2007 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Classic | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Shakespeare | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Mountain |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com, 2007 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Abstract social comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Also in a site-specific version named RENEWAL | |||||
| Synopsis: | Four characters on a mountain | |||||
Outcast |
| 1st Produced: | North Pole SE10, London | 1995 | ||||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com, 2008 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Greek myth | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Elayne Jude. Loosely based on Greek classic | |||||
| Synopsis: | Part 3 of Oresteian Trilogy | |||||
Red Countess Green Cow |
| 1st Produced: | Lewisham Irish Centre, London | 2007 | ||||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com, 2007 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Irish History | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Fraught friendship of Countess Markievicz and playwright Sean O'Casey | |||||
Renewal |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Abstract soc | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original title MOUNTAIN | |||||
| Synopsis: | Abstract social comedy | |||||
Riverman |
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||||
| Company: | Tabard Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com, 2007 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Historical drama | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Walter Greaves, naïf painter, Thames boatman: his discovery in 1911 | |||||
Salome |
| 1st Produced: | Royal George SE 8 | 1988 | ||||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Biblical drama | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Oscar Wilde | |||||
| Synopsis: | Small-cast version | |||||
Season In Hell, A |
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||||
| Company: | Tabard Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com, 2007 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Lit-biog | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | French poets Verlaine and Rimbaud on the rampage | |||||
Three Sisters |
| 1st Produced: | Boyle, Ireland | 2000 | ||||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com, 2007 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Russian comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov | |||||
| Synopsis: | Smallish-cast version | |||||
Trojan Women, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1991 | |||||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||||
| 1st Published: | Lulu.com, 2007 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Greek myth | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Nick Warren. Re-named Women and the Trojan Horse | |||||
| Synopsis: | Re-telling the Greek Tragedy | |||||
Virgin of Notting Hill |
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||||
| Company: | Tabard Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Social drama, two 1 Acts | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Frigidity in Mexico/ impotence in London | |||||
Women and the Trojan Horse |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
| Company: | Praxis Theatre Laboratory | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Drama FringeHIGH | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written by Sam Dowling and Nick Warren. VENUE #11: Center for Architecture | |||||
| Synopsis: | A modern adaptation of , "The Trojan Women,"; Hecuba, Cassandra, Andromache, Helen, and Hera are placed in a time and location where the wars of history meet the wars of the New World Order. These women despise 'regime change'. | |||||