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VINCENT WOODS (1960 - )
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At The Black Pig's Dyke Cry From Heaven, A Fontamara John Hughdy and Tom John Song Of The Yellow Bittern WinterAt The Black Pig's Dyke
Synopsis:
At the Black Pig's Dyke is a story of murder, mystery, fairy tale and tragic love. The play is set on the border of Northern and Southern Ireland where family feuds are passed down through generations. The story is told using the pagan ritual of the mummers' play as a metaphor for Ireland at a time where people laughed at a wake and cried when a child was born.
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in Far from The Land, edited by John Fairleigh, Methuen, London, 1998 -
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Play/Drama
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Male: 6 Female: 4 Other: Cross casting is essential doubling is possible
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Top of PageCry From Heaven, A
With this new play Vincent Woods breaks ranks with Yeats and Synge by reimagining the story of Deirdre and Naoise not as misty Celtic twilight, but as a dark and lusty bloodbath: Irish myth as Greek tragedy. He has an eager co-conspirator in French director Olivier Py, whose production involves on-stage rain, male and female nudity, simulated sex acts, and the actors moving big black set units around on casters.
Karen Fricker, The Guardian
Karen Fricker, The Guardian
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- 9780413775399
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Play/Drama
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Male: - Female: - Other: 13 actors
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Top of PageFontamara
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Fontamara follows the plight of a peasant village in southern Italy, facing the imminent arrival of the Fascist regime.
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Old Riding School, Collins Barracks, Dublin. 1998
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Vesuvius Theatre Company
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Genre:
Adaptation
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Male: 7 Female: 5 Other: -
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Top of PageJohn Hughdy and Tom John
Synopsis:
John Hughdy and Tom John comprises two short companion plays. John Hughdy is a natural showman who delights in people and delights in shocking them. He is a storyteller, an easy conversationalist, someone who would talk to himself or to the cat or the dog and think nothing of it. Tom John is isolated in a way that his father never was: he is one of those young men who can be found lonely at bar-counters in small towns or drunk in their empty fields with no one to go home to.
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Genre:
One Act
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageSong Of The Yellow Bittern
Synopsis:
Set, in part, against a background of a famous paternity lawsuit taken by a Protestant woman against a Catholic priest in 1828, a story unravels over time, linking events and people over seven generations in a small rural community. Song of the Yellow Bittern is both a love story and a ghost story
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Play/Drama
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Male: 6 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageWinter
Synopsis:
A 40-ish woman, dressed in too-youthful urban gear and white high heels, talks to a man whose drab trenchcoat and clunky briefcase signify "middle-management nobody". Her clothes mark her out as a prostitute, but the dialogue is heightened enough to make this feel like more than a pick-up. He takes her to his hotel room and she strips down to her bra and panties, but things don't go further. We find out he is married, but are not confident that this is what holds him back.
Karen Fricker, The Guardian
Karen Fricker, The Guardian
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Original Playwright - Jon Fosse
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Genre:
Adaptation
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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