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Olwen Fouere

OLWEN FOUERE

  
Nationality:    Irish
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Literary Agent:    United Agents  represented by Ruth Young

Olwen Fouere is an actress, writer and theatre artist born on the west coast of Ireland of Breton parents Yann Fouere and Marie-Magdeleine Mauger. Olwen Fouere is a leading Irish actor and creative artist. Theatre: At the National: riverrun (for TheEmergencyRoom/Galway Arts Festival), Romeo and Juliet, Peer Gynt, Lessness, Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards. Recent stage credits include: Maria de Buenos Aires at Cork Opera House (Cork Midsummer Festival 2013); The Rite of Spring/Petrushka with Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre at Sadler's Wells and Movimento Festival Wolfsburg 2013; and a season with Theatre for a New Audience, New York (spring 2012). Other work of note includes: Terminus for the Abbey Theatre (international tour, 2011); Yellow reperformed at Dublin Theatre Festival, 2010; Sodome, my love for Rough Magic/TheEmergencyRoom (2010); Under Glass for The Clod Ensemble/Sadler's Wells; a solo performance of a French stage adaptation of two books by Roddy Doyle, Paula Spencer, La Femme Qui Se Cognait Les Portes at Bouffes du Nord Theatre, Paris; The Bull with Fabulous Beast at Dublin Theatre Festival 2005 / Barbican BITE 2007 / Berlin Spielzeit Europa 2008 (nominated for two Olivier Awards); and the award-winning Titus Andronicus for Siren Productions, 2005. At the Abbey Theatere, Fouere created the title role in The Mai and the role of Hester Swane in By the Bog of Cats, both written for her by Marina Carr and for which she received numerous awards. She also starred in the Gate Theatre's production of Salome, directed by Steven Berkoff, which toured internationally, and Life is a Dream (Edinburgh International Festival 1998 / Barbican Theatre, London / BAM, New York). Film: Recent film appearances include: The Wake by Oonagh Kearney; If Those Lips by Pat McCabe (VIP/RTe); Camillo's Idea by Aurelien Froment (Venice Biennale); Horse by Yvonne McDevitt; Cassandra: fragments of a playscript by Anne Enright (Irish Museum of Modern Art, Feb 2013); This Must Be The Place by Paolo Sorrentino (Palme d'Or selection, Cannes 2011); The Rafters by John Carney; The Other Side of Sleep by Rebecca Daly (Director's Fortnight, Cannes 2011); and Yellow, the film by Amanda Coogan and Paddy Cahill (JDIFF 2012). A performer who encompasses many art forms, Fouere has featured in major collaborations with numerous visual artists including Ireland's interanationally renowned James Coleman. Fouere was an artistic director of Operating Theatre, which she co-founded with composer Roger Doyle. Her extensive performance work with Operating Theatre includes The Diamond Body (1984-87), The Pentagonal Dream (1986), Angel/Babel (1999), Chair (2000), Passades (2004), Here Lies (2005-07), and Here Lies in film... (2008).

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below is a list of Olwen Fouere's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Angel/Babel         Chair         Here Lies         Ignotum Per Ignotius         Paula Spencer: La Femme Qui Se Cognait Dans Les Portes         riverrun         Sodome, My Love

Angel/Babel

Synopsis:
Angel/Babel explores a vast interconnecting message system around which a subtle body begins to form.

Notes:
written by Roger Doyle Olwen Fouere Leon Ingulsrud

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Operating Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Physical / Devised theatre Piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=471

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Chair

Synopsis:
Inspired by Andy Warhol's evocative lithographs of Old Sparky, (Sing Sing's electric chair), Chair explores the nature of fame and ritual violence, the deadly charm of the serial killer and the chilling glamour of death row.

Notes:
Written by Olwen Fouere in collaboration with Roger Doyle and Johnny Hanrahan

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Operating Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Physical/Devised theatre Piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=472

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Here Lies

Synopsis:
Here Lies is the first in a series of live installations by Operating Theatre which retrace Antonin Artaud's journey through Ireland in 1937. Inspired by an apocalyptic vision, the French actor/writer arrived in Cobh, Co. Cork carrying a cane, which he believed to be the staff of St Patrick. His journey brought him to Inis Mór and to Galway, where he stayed in the Imperial Hotel without the means to pay his bill. Some days later he was arrested in Dublin and subsequently deported as an undesirable and destitute alien.

Notes:
Written by Olwen Fouere and Selina Cartmell in collaboration with the company.

1st Produced:
The Meeting Room, Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway    22 Jul 2005

Organisations:
Operating Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Physical/Devised theatre Piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1931

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Ignotum Per Ignotius

Synopsis:
Ignotum per Ignotius is a live visual art piece with a musical score whose plot suggests a mystery story. The piece's non-linear narrative reveals, rather then resolves, enigmas and juxtaposes real with mythic time.

Notes:
by James Coleman In collaboration with Olwen Fouere and Roger Doyle.

1st Produced:
Shaffy Theatre, Amsterdam    Jan 1982

Organisations:
Operating Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Physical/Devised theatre One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=467

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Paula Spencer: La Femme Qui Se Cognait Dans Les Portes

Synopsis:
A one-woman show based on the popular novels by Roddy Doyle, 'Paula Spencer: La Femme Qui Se Cognait Dans Les Portes' tells the story of a woman's long struggle with alcoholism and domestic abuse. She battles, she survives, she tells the audience her long and difficult personal story.

Notes:
A French language adaptation of the novels 'The Woman who Walked into Doors' and 'Paula Spencer' by Roddy Doyle. Adapted by Michel Abbecassis andOlwen Fouere .

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Theatre de lEveil

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adatation Performed in French with English surtitles

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=3232

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riverrun

Synopsis:
. . .Soft morning, city! Lsp! I am leafy speafing. Lpf! Folty and folty all the nights have being falling on to long my hair. Not a sound, falling... Olwen Fouere, one of Ireland's leading theatre-makers, performs her acclaimed new adaptation of the voice of the river in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. A force of constant renewal, the river Life (Liffey/Anna Livia Plurabelle) generates a powerful transformative energy as she dissolves into the great ocean of time. Fouere's unique approach to Joyce's extraordinary 'sound-dance' becomes a universal call to wake up, surrender the past and confront the betrayals that might lie at the heart of our histories.

Notes:
Interpretation of the voice of the river, Anna Livia Plurabelle, in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake adapted and performed by Olwen Fouere

1st Produced:

Organisations:
TheEmergencyRoom and Galway Arts Festival

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=3954
Theatre Record Vol XXXIV (2014) Page 0246 - [Theatre: Shed - National Theatre]

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Sodome, My Love

Synopsis:
The sky breaks, the rain falls. The downpour slowly awakens a woman caked in salt, buried for centuries, the only survivor of the city of Sodome. Here, now, amongst us, she begins to speak. This is her story...

Notes:
A world premiere of Laurent Gaude's 'Sodome, ma douce'(written 2008)

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Rough Magic Theatre Company in association with TheEmergencyRoom

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adatation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=3346

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