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Anne Devlin

ANNE DEVLIN

  (1951 - )
Nationality:    Irish
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Literary Agent:    Alan Brodie Representation Ltd  

Anne Devlin was born in Belfast; she was a teacher from 1974-1978 and started writing fiction in 1976 in Germany. Her short stories are published by Fabers in a collection entitled the Waypaver. Anne has won numerous awards including: Hennessy Literary Award (1982) for short stories and the Samuel Beckett Award (1985) for TV Drama. She was the only woman nominated for the Lloyds Playwright of the Year Award for AFTeR eASTeR in 1994.

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         After Easter         Heartlanders         Long March, The         Ourselves Alone         Woman Calling, A

After Easter

After Easter
Greta, an Irish ex-patriot living in england, has been experiencing religious visions for years. Or are they merely signs of a mental disorder whose roots lie in Greta's upbringing? a strident non-believer, Greta has tried to suppress these episodes, but stress from a crumbling marriage and the birth of her third child have pushed her to the brink of suicide. at the opening of the play, Greta recounts fleeing a party and sitting in the middle of a road where she's nearly hit by a bus. Discharged from the mental hospital that took her in, Greta visits her two sisters: Helen, a commercial artist who adopts an American accent to hide her heritage; and aoife, a not-so-strict Catholic who has married and moved only minutes away from her childhood home. But on her first night out of hospital, Greta has a vision of a female banshee entering her room. That night, the sisters learn of their father's heart attack and they return home to a confrontation with their overpowering mother, the Church and their father's death

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Faber and Faber, London, 1994   978-0571173945

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Psychological Play

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Male:  7            Female:  8            Other:  doubling possible

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Heartlanders

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with Edgar and Bill

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Nick Hern Books, London, 1989   -

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Long March, The

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Faber and Faber, London, 1986   -

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Ourselves Alone

Ourselves Alone
the effects of the 1981 hunger strikes on Northern Ireland politics through the various struggles of three sisters.

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Royal Court & Liverpool Playhouse

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Faber and Faber, London, 1986   978-0571144570

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Political Thriller

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Woman Calling, A

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