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Declan Burke-Kennedy

DECLAN BURKE-KENNEDY

  (1944 - )
Nationality:    Irish
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Declan Burke-Kennedy's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Declan Burke-Kennedy's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Day Of the Mayfly         Hoods         Peer Gynt         Trespasser, The         Wind That Shook the Barley, The

Day Of the Mayfly

Synopsis:
Day of the Mayfly is a comic study of a relationship, as two lovers spend the weekend together in a country cottage.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Focus Theatre, Dublin    1980

Organisations:
Focus Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Hoods

Synopsis:
Two hitmen sit in the back of a bar discussing the consequences of having just blown somebody's brains out.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Focus Theatre, Dublin    1976

Organisations:
Focus Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Peer Gynt

Synopsis:
Peer Gynt is a young man who has great potential as an artist but who is constantly at war with his physical desires. Despite his quest for absolute purity he repeatedly falls for the fleshy temptations of compromise, as he swaggers and seduces his way from the fjords of Norway to the deserts of Africa and back. along the way he has a number of trials and adventures: he meets a young woman and they fall in love; he helps a bride escape from her wedding; he considers joining the Trolls; he becomes a successful businessman, loses it all, pretends to be an arab prophet, and winds up in a lunatic asylum. Finally, he returns home to confront a creature called the Shadow, who has always been watching him and trying to teach him what it is to be human. It is the Shadow who forces Peer to consider returning to the woman he fell in love with so much earlier in the story, and pursue a career as an artist.

Notes:
adapted from Ibsen's original.

1st Produced:
Father Matthew Hall, Dublin    1984

Organisations:
Cork Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Trespasser, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1973

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Wind That Shook the Barley, The

Synopsis:
the Wind That Shook the Barley is a study of the effects of the threat of violence on those who would wish to remain neutral. the play is set in a West of Ireland studio home where an artistic couple have gone to establish a new life. the couple's isolation is shattered by the intrusion of a sinister young man and an elderly woman. the intrusion initially serves to aggravate tensions between the couple, until all the characters' perceptions are altered by the unfolding events.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Oscar theatre    1981

Organisations:
Focus Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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