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Patricia Burke-Brogan

PATRICIA BURKE-BROGAN  

 Nationality:    Irish
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 Eclipsed         Stained Glass At Samhain

Eclipsed

Synopsis:
a cross between Lorca's 'House Of Bernarda alba' and television's 'Prisoner: Cell Block H', Patricia Burke Brogan's play about 'fallen women' is a great idea thinly rendered. Set in Ireland of 1963, it is the doleful tale of unmarried mothers separated from their children and condemned to slave in gulag-like, Convent-run laundries. The women are subjugated by a good Nunlbad Nun duo, but prove themselves a colourfully resilient brigade whether it be Brigit the bullying mimic. Mandy the Elvis-obsessed romantic or Nellie Nora the woodbine-puffing bumpkin. add to this asthmatic Cathy escaping in laundry baskets, and the nervous shrieking of painfully shy 17-year-old orphan Juliet, plus a good deal of soiled clerical underwear, and you ye a rich set of possibilities.
Patrick Marmion, Time Out

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Punchbag Theatre, Galway    1992

Organisations:
Punchbag Theatre Company

1st Published:
Salmon Publishing, republic of Ireland, 1992   -

Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  9            Other:  doubling possible

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Stained Glass At Samhain

Synopsis:
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

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Towm Hall Theatre, Galaway    2002

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Salmon Publishing, republic of Ireland, 2003   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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