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Maev Mac Coille

MAEV MAC COILLE  (1983 - )

 Nationality:    irish
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Maev Mac Coille holds a Masters in Playwriting from Royal Holloway University of London. Her play 'The Cruelty of 17' won the St andrew's Young Playwright of the Year Competition, and she was commissioned for the Abbey Theatre Seeds Programme. She is a Creative associate of the Blank Pages theatre company, and made her debut with that company with the piece The Woman Who, premiered in London in November 2010. More recently she has written for Ten Four and Tiny Dog theatre companies, and developed the script for Simple Procedures in collaboration with Deepwater Horizon Theatre Company. She has written for radio as well as the stage, with "So, There's This Girl," and "Darkness into Light" produced by HuRiCa Productions. Her work has been performed at the LiT Space, Theatre Royal Stratford East, The White Bear and Theatre 503 in London. She is currently developing "The Optimists" into a full-length piece in association with Tiny Dog productions.

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 Modest Stillness And Humility         Optimists, The         Simple Procedures         Woman Who, The

Modest Stillness And Humility

Synopsis:
Maggie Sinclair's speech to the 1982 under-18 synchronised swimming team didn't go exactly to plan.

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1st Produced:
Dogstar    2012

Organisations:
blank pages

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Genre:
Comic monologue

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Optimists, The

Synopsis:
a dark comedy about knowing you're going to die, and not liking the person you're going to die with.

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Tiny Dog

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Genre:
dark comedy

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Simple Procedures

Synopsis:
Set in the immediate aftermath of a military occupation, Simple Procedures explores the effects of powerlessness on the individual and the struggle to move on when no justice is possible. after any war eventually life must go on, but it's one thing to live with what you've suffered, another entirely to live with what you did - and for some it may well be impossible.

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1st Produced:
Theatre Royal, Stratford East (staged reading)    -

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Woman Who, The

Synopsis:
What might have been? What is the cost of making the right choice, and is it ever worth it? The scope for tragedy in an ordinary life is uncovered as one lady explores her own past.

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1st Produced:
The Dogstar    Nov 2010

Organisations:
blankpages

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