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Sam Dowling

SAM DOWLING

  (1931 - )
Nationality:    Irish
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SaM DOWLING Is a Dublin-born playwright. He has written and produced nearly thirty plays or small-cast versions of classics for Praxis Theatre Laboratory. His subject-matter has ranged from Irish history through the lives of writers and artists to re-working of themes from the Greek myths. His play about the Bront?s ( co-written with andrea Bird ) has had three productions in Tokyo. Founded the Tabard Theatre in West London in 1984, North Pole Theatre in Greenwich in 1995 and the Old Courthouse Theatre in Frenchpark, County Roscommon in 1999. PRaXIS Theatre LaBORaTORY his experimental Theatre has toured UK, usa, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Ukraine and Poland.

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         Agamemnon         Allegiance         Antigone         Avengers, The         Bacchae, The         Big FElla !         Birth Of the Beast, The         Cauldron Of Brontes         Cenci, The         Cherry Orchard         Females, The         Flame And the Stone, The         Ha Ha Ha         Hamlet         Hedda Gabler         Ibsen's Dead Awaken         Ibsen's Hedda Gabler         Importance Of Being Earnest         Lament For Art O'laoghaire         Lovelost         Macbeth         Mountain         Outcast         Red Countess Green Cow         Renewal         Riverman         Salome         Season In Hell, A         Three Sisters         Trojan Women, The         Virgin Of Notting Hill         Women And the Trojan Horse

Agamemnon

Synopsis:
Part 1 of Oresteian Trilogy

Notes:
written with elayne Jude. Loosely based on Greek classic

1st Produced:
North Pole Se10, London     1986

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory

1st Published:
Lulu.com, 2008   -

Music:
-

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version

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Allegiance

Synopsis:
the IRa in London: a family divided

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Tabard Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Irish history

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Antigone

Synopsis:
antigone dies for a forbidden burial

Notes:
Version of the Greek tragedy written from group work

1st Produced:
Praxis Th. Lab, London     1994

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Greek tragedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Avengers, The

Synopsis:
Part 2 of Oresteian Trilogy

Notes:
written with elayne Jude. Loosely based on Greek classic

1st Produced:
North Pole Se10, London     1995

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory

1st Published:
Lulu.com, 2008   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Bacchae, The

Synopsis:
They have tasted pleasure and will defend it at any cost! Pentheus wants to stop the women - these wives, these lovers and mothers who have left their homes to revel with the god of dance and wine. He disguises himself as a woman and tries to repress their desires at any cost...The Bacchae tells of curiosity and control, invasion and rage.

Notes:
translation by Barney Ashton And Sam Dowling

1st Produced:
North Pole Theatre, Greenwich     08 Oct 1997

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1st Published:
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Music:
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-

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Big FElla !

Synopsis:
Life and death of Michael Collins and friends

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory

1st Published:
Lulu.com, 2009   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Modern History

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Birth Of the Beast, The

Synopsis:
Civil Rights, IRa split, birth of the Provos

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Tabard Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Irish History

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Cauldron Of Brontes

Synopsis:
Novelist sisters rise, Brother Branwell falls

Notes:
written with Andrea Kealy

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Tabard Theatre Company

1st Published:
Lulu.com, 2007   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Cenci, The

Synopsis:
Small-cast version

Notes:
from Shelley

1st Produced:
North Pole Se10, London     1997

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory

1st Published:
Lulu.com, 2007   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Gothic Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Cherry Orchard

Synopsis:
Small-cast version set in 1970s Ireland

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
Boyle, Ireland     1997

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory

1st Published:
Lulu.com, 2008   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Russian Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Females, The

Synopsis:
expressionist collage on female identity

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henryk Jachimowski. Translated by Szczesny Wronski And Sam Dowling

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Translation

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Flame And the Stone, The

Synopsis:
Ireland's great love story: W.B.Yeats and Maud Gonne McBride

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Boyle, Ireland     2001

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Ha Ha Ha

Synopsis:
Improvisations on Coward and Shakespeare

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Maidenhead, Berkshire     2005

Organisations:
1157 Performance Group

1st Published:
Lulu.com, 2007   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Hamlet

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Shakespeare. Small cast version

1st Produced:
Praxis Th. Lab, Boyle     2001

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory

1st Published:
Lulu.com, 2008   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Classic

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Hedda Gabler

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:
North Pole Pub, London     17 Apr 1997

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Ibsen's Dead Awaken

Synopsis:
an artist and his loves

Notes:
Small-cast version

1st Produced:
North Pole Theatre Se10     1996

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory

1st Published:
Lulu.com, 2007   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
euro Classic

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  may require third female

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Ibsen's Hedda Gabler

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Small-cast version of the classic

1st Produced:
Praxis Th. Lab, London     1996

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
euro Classic

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Importance Of Being Earnest

Synopsis:
Small-cast version of classic comedy

Notes:
Original Playwright - Oscar Wilde

1st Produced:
North Pole Se10, London     1996

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Period comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Lament For Art O'laoghaire

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
an experimental production based on the Irish poem

1st Produced:
Praxis Th. Lab, Boyle     1993

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Improv

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Lovelost

Synopsis:
abuse in the Irish Industrial Schools. a Mercy nun and a Christian Brother attempt Truth and Reconciliation with their victims

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Camden Irish Centre, London     2004

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory

1st Published:
Lulu.com, 2007   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Macbeth

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Original Playwright - Shakespeare

1st Produced:
Praxis Th. Lab, Boyle     2001

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory

1st Published:
Lulu.com, 2007   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Classic

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Mountain

Synopsis:
Four characters on a mountain

Notes:
also in A site-specific version named ReNeWaL

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory

1st Published:
Lulu.com, 2007   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
abstract social comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Outcast

Synopsis:
Part 3 of Oresteian Trilogy

Notes:
written with elayne Jude. Loosely based on Greek classic

1st Produced:
North Pole Se10, London     1995

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory

1st Published:
Lulu.com, 2008   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Greek myth

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Red Countess Green Cow

Synopsis:
Fraught friendship of Countess Markievicz and playwright Sean O'Casey

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Lewisham Irish Centre, London     2007

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory

1st Published:
Lulu.com, 2007   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Irish History

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Renewal

Synopsis:
abstract social comedy

Notes:
Original title MOUNTaIN

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
abstract soc

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Riverman

Synopsis:
Walter Greaves, naif painter, Thames boatman: his discovery in 1911

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Tabard Theatre Company

1st Published:
Lulu.com, 2007   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Historical Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Salome

Synopsis:
Small-cast version

Notes:
Original Playwright - Oscar Wilde

1st Produced:
Royal George Se 8     1988

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Biblical Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Season In Hell, A

Synopsis:
French poets Verlaine and Rimbaud on the rampage

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Tabard Theatre Company

1st Published:
Lulu.com, 2007   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Lit-biog

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Three Sisters

Synopsis:
Smallish-cast version

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
Boyle, Ireland     2000

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory

1st Published:
Lulu.com, 2007   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Russian comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Trojan Women, The

Synopsis:
Re-telling the Greek Tragedy

Notes:
written with Nick Warren. Re-named Women And the Trojan Horse

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory

1st Published:
Lulu.com, 2007   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Greek myth

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Virgin Of Notting Hill

Synopsis:
Frigidity in Mexico/ impotence in London

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Tabard Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Social Drama, two 1 acts

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Women And the Trojan Horse

Synopsis:
a modern adaptation of , "the Trojan Women,"; Hecuba, Cassandra, andromache, Helen, and Hera are placed in a time and location where the wars of history meet the wars of the New World Order. these women despise 'regime change'.

Notes:
written by Sam Dowling And Nick Warren. Venue 11: Center for Architecture

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Praxis Theatre Laboratory

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama FringeHIGH Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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