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PATRICIA BURKE BROGAN
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Patricia Burke Brogan is a painter, poet and playwright. Her etchings have won awards at Barcelona and at Listowel International Biennale 1982. Above the Waves' Calligraphy and the script of her stage play. eclipsed, were published by Salmon Publishing in 1994. eclipsed has won many awards including a Fringe First at edinburgh Theatre Festival 1992 and the USA Moss Hart Award in 1994. To date there have been 101 productions of eclipsed on three continents. Another of her stage plays, Stained Glass at Samhain andeclipsed have been translated into Italian. eclipsed has been translated into French and Dutch. the fifth edition of eclipsed was published by Wordsonthestreet in 2008. Patricia received and Arts Council Bursary in Literature in 1993, a european Script Writers' Fund in 1994 and an Arts Council Bursary in Drama in 2005. Her Memoir with Grykes and Turloughs is a work-in-progress.
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Clarenda's Mirror Eclipsed Requiem of Love Stained Glass At SamhainClarenda's Mirror
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chosen by the artistic panel of the 4th International Women Playwrights Conference for the Irish Showcase at the Galway Conference in June 1997
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staged rehearsed reading took place in University College Galway 1997
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Top of PageEclipsed
Framed by a present-day prologue and epilogue, the play is set in 1963 in a convent laundry at St. Paul's Home for Penitent Women in Killmacha, Ireland. eclipsed explores the practice of making pregnant and unwed Irish mothers work as 'penitents' in church-run laundries. Supervised by nuns who regarded these women as mindless vessels of evil, the women were treated as virtual slaves and their infants were forcibly put up for adoption.
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Punchbag Theatre, Galway 11 Feb 1992
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Punchbag Theatre Company
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Wordsonthestreet (1 Aug 2008)
Salmon Publishing, 1992 978-09552604-4-5
Salmon Publishing, 1992 978-09552604-4-5
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Top of PageRequiem of Love
Patricia Burke Brogan's plays have always seemed a little ahead of their time. Her 1992 eclipsed was one of the first attempts to expose the abuse of women in the Magdelene laundries and, 10 years later, she courageously called for a more balanced view of Ireland 's Catholic past in Stained Glass at Samhain. Requiem of Love is more personal and retrospective than either of those works, focusing on a man's attempts to come to terms with the death of his estranged wife. But although Burke Brogan is exploring new territory here, the moral generosity and painterly sensibility of her earlier plays remain evident. John O'Kelly stands at the graveside of his wife Nora. He'd left her many years before, after being accused of a death for which he may have been responsible. Nora was left alone to raise their children; O'Kelly brawled his way drunkenly through Australia , sobering up on Good Friday each year to write her letters he never sent. Instead he carries them around, wrapped in an Irish tricolour. Burke Brogan presents to us a man whose life has been ruined largely because of his own weaknesses - but by using tightly constructed images of forgiveness and transformation, she also leaves open the possibility of redemption for her character. Requiem of Love therefore manages to be rich without being dense. It draws on a range of allusions to song, visual art, the natural world, and other cultures' funeral rituals, but never loses narrative impetus .... the script's haunting tone .... creates a strong, lingering contrast between O'Kelly's hopeless situation and the beauty of the language used to describe it. - Patrick Lonergan, Irish Times
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1st Produced:
Town Hall Theatre, Galaway, Ireland >>> 23 Nov 2005
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Wordsonthestreet (April 2006) 978-0-9552604-0-7
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monologue for stage
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Top of PageStained Glass At Samhain
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Sister Luke a former Superior of the nearby Magdalen Laundry, returns to her convent. It is the 1990's and the convent buildings are being demolished to make way for apartments. the good and bad of her life suffuses her memory in this play.
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Town Hall Theatre, Galaway, Ireland >>> 30 Oct 2002
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Town Hall Theatre
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Salmon Publishing, 2003 -
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