The Playwrights Database
ARNOLD THOMAS FANNING
(1969 - )Nationality: Irish
email: Click here to contact Website: n/a
Literary Agent: n/a
Arnold Fanning's first play Those Powerful Machines ran in the New Theatre as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival 2008. His other plays are Shafted (New Theatre New Writing Week 2009) and Dumped (Red Door Theatre, 2009). His short stories have been published in Ireland and America and broadcast on radio in england. He wrote the screenplay for the short film Still Rain which was shown at the Cork Film Festival. He co-write the script for the one hour TV film Making ends Meet which was broadcast on Irish national broadcaster RTe and also seen in film festivals in Ireland, england, and CanadA. He has been a resident at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co. Monaghan, Ireland, the Virginia Centre for the Creative Arts, usa, and the Edward albee Foundation Residency in Montauk, Long Island, USA as well as a Work-Study Scholar in the Breadloaf Writers' Conference, Vermont, usA. He has participated in writer's workshops in Dublin and Prague, participated in the Sources 2 script development programme in Germany and Norway, and received several grants from the Irish Arts Council.
Buy Plays with Doollee
Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.AbeBooks.co.uk AbeBooks.com Stageplays.com amazon.com
amazon.co.uk
amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template
below is a list of Arnold Thomas Fanning's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
Dumped Griswold McKenna's Fort Shafted Those Powerful MachinesDumped
Synopsis:
Tom is minding his own business when he is accosted by Paula. She is in a state and he is going to be dumped on severely on a night he won't forget in a hurry.
Notes:
-
1st Produced:
Red Door Theatre, Kilkenny, Ireland.
01 Nov 2009
Organisations:
What's On Tom?
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Comedy
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of PageGriswold
Synopsis:
Two young Irish men are living illegally in a post 9/11 New York, their lives falling far short of the American Dream. Living in dire financial straits their mutual friendship comes under unbearable strain as they struggle to survive in the most ridiculous and dangerous of circumstances.
Notes:
-
1st Produced:
Civic Theatre, Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland
13 Jun 2012
Organisations:
Focus Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
comedy Drama
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: - Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of PageMcKenna's Fort
Synopsis:
draws from Sir Roger Casement's infamous Black Diaries
Notes:
-
1st Produced:
The New Theatre, Temple Bar, Dublin
21 Mar 2016
Organisations:
-
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of PageShafted
Synopsis:
Jack Malley thinks he has it made. after years of struggle he has written a play that is about to open on Broadway. His past of toil and obscurity is behind him. then one night, during the interval of the preview of his play he steps out onto the New York sidewalk for a cigarette only to be confronted by an unwelcome figure from the past he thought was put behind him. His old friend Henry Thomas, back from years of wandering, has returned. But Henry is here for more than just a chance to reminisce about their shared youth together. He wants a piece of Jack's success, and is prepared to fight for it if he has to, because he feels shafted by Jack.
Notes:
-
1st Produced:
New Theatre, Dublin
25 Aug 2009
Organisations:
the New Theatre, Dublin
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of PageThose Powerful Machines
Synopsis:
Roddy, an Irishman, lives alone in a suburb of London in the mid 1990s, nursing his wounds and building machines for his own strange purposes. Trace, an english night-club hostess, joins him for a session of Sunday evening bondage. they are rudely interrupted by Clanger, another Irishman, agitated and disheveled, who knows too much about Roddy's past and has a demand that will jolt Roddy out of his amnesiac purgatory and bring him back shockingly into the now.
Notes:
-
1st Produced:
Dublin Fringe Festival, The New Theatre, Dublin
01 Sep 2008
Organisations:
the attic Studio
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of Page