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Dermot Healy

DERMOT HEALY

  (1947 - 2014)
Nationality:    Irish
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Literary Agent:    Conville & Walsh Ltd  

Dermot Healy (18 July 1947 - 29 June 2014) was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet and short story writer. A member of Aosdána, Healy was also part of its governing body, the Toscaireacht. Born in Finnea, County Westmeath, he lived in County Sligo, and was described variously as a "master", a "Celtic Hemingway" and as "Ireland's finest living novelist". His books included A Goat's Song, Sudden Times, and The Bend for Home and he was the recipient of many prizes, including the Hennessy Award (twice), the Tom Gallon Award, the Encore Award and the AWB Vincent American Ireland Fund Literary Award. - See more at: http://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/author/dermot-healy#sthash.nzFbWbYo.dpuf

Research:    http://www.irishplayography.com/person.aspx?personid=1855

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

         Blood Wedding         Last Night's Fun         Long Swim, The         Mr Staines         On Broken Wings

Blood Wedding

Synopsis:
Just after her wedding, a bride runs away with another man. When her new husband finds the couple, the two men kill each other and all are left to mourn.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Sevenwoods

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  16            Other:  doubling possible

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=746

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Last Night's Fun

Synopsis:
Declan works nights. His wife Gloria keeps a washing line of pots in the kitchen and could be back in Herefordshire if she wanted. He is convinced she is having an affair with the apothecary. His mother Maggie lives in a granny flat, listening to the deaths on the local radio (she is uncertain whether her missing husband is dead). When they sleep the women have scandalous dreams; Declan never sleeps, but turns into a musical instrument. Gloria, to stop his outburst, turns to acoustics.

Notes:
Written in collaboration with Theatre Omnibus

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Organisations:
Theatre Omnibus

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Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=713

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Long Swim, The

Synopsis:
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Music:
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Play/Drama

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Mr Staines

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Samuel Becket Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin    21 Sep 1999

Organisations:
Pan Pan Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=216

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On Broken Wings

Synopsis:
Timothy Lavell sits by the hearth in a cottage in contemporary Ireland. The fireplace opens and in stride his parents and his younger self. We follow Timmy from childhood, including times potato picking in Scotland, wall-building with his father, and as an elevator man in America before returning to the cottage where he was born.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatre Omnibus    Jan 1992

Organisations:
Theatre Omnibus

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  doubling possible

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=712

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