JIM SHERIDAN
| Nationality: | Irish |
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Plays by Jim Sheridan
Ha'penny Place, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||||
| Company: | Project Arts Centre, Dublin >>> In association with Dublin Theatre Festival, Ireland >> | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 23 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | doubling possible | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | The Ha'penny Place is the haunt of Dublin's pimps, beggars and prostitutes. Their society is an ordered and a disciplined one. Their professions must not be wrecked by unlicensed intruders. Romance and political intrigue are the backbone of this Irish beggars' opera. | |||||
Immigrant, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1982 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 2 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | smiling, trusting East Indian named Kounanopolous arrives in Toronto to visit his brother and take in some skiing. He has $15.50 in his pocket, a magic Indian aphrodisiac in a birdcage and a burning desire to see Canada. Kounanopolous sees the seamier side of the country before he ends up back in the immigration office as an illegal alien. | |||||
Inner City/Outer Space |
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||||
| Company: | Team Educational Theatre Company, Dublin >>> In association with Project Arts Centre, Dublin >>> | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Young People's Theatre | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 9 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Inner City/Outer Space explores urban renewal in Dublin's inner city. | |||||
Mobile Homes |
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Irish Writers' Co-Operative, 1976 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 10 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | doubling possible | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Mobile Homes explores the plight of urban caravan dwellers, and how that plight can lead to violence and tragedy. Shea, a young artist, and his pregnant wife, move into a mobile home site and become involved with their new community. Shea struggles to get some fundamental rights and facilities for the occupants, and the landlord resists and retaliates by cutting off the electricity | |||||
Spike in the First World War |
| 1st Produced: | Transport Hall, Edinburgh | Aug 1983 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Scotsman Fringe First Award | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Where All Your Dreams Come True |
| 1st Produced: | Abbey Methodist Hall, Dublin Central Mission, Dublin | 1978 | ||||
| Company: | Irish Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | doubling possible | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Strange circumstances bring three young women together in a Dublin disco. Their rich fantasy world and desperate, often hilarious, encounters are set against a background of music and dancing | |||||
Women at Work: Same Sweat-Different Pay |
| 1st Produced: | part of a tour to schools | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | ||||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | explores the issues behind equal pay for women. | |||||