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PETER HUSSEY
(1964 - )Nationality: Irish
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Peter Hussey was born in County Westmeath and is artistic Director of Crooked House Theatre Company, in Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland. Crooked House produces new work in collaboration with international partners. Peter is a writer, director and Drama facilitator. He has directed most of Crooked House's work to date, in Ireland and abroad. these include the Irish premieres of Breathing Corpses by Laura Wade (Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 2009), Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare, the Censor and the Seance by anthony Neilson, the Crime of the Twenty-First Century by Edward Bond, Handbag and Citizenship by Mark Ravenhill, Broken Hallelujah by Sharman Mac Donald and DNa by Dennis Kelly. World premieres include Strangers by Ken Bourke, Room Rage (after Hippolytus by euripides - Dublin Fringe 2005), the Bird Trap by Darren Donohue (Prague Fringe Festival) and Totally Over You by Mark Ravenhill (Cottesloe, national Theatre, London, 2003). He lectures in applied Theatre for National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He is an Arts consultant, and a trainer in education and youth Arts, having worked in Ireland and abroad for over 20 years. Peter has developed and delivered training programmes in Theatre-based methods of development to a wide range of organisations and groups, and is responsible for the country's first undergraduate programme in Directing for Theatre at NUIM. He has been producer of the annual Connections Festival in Ireland for the National Theatre in London, and is founder of the annual Human Rights Youth Theatre Festival held every year in Newbridge. His recent work has been developing projects of work with communities in Kildare and in Dublin that use Theatre methods as tools for suicide prevention, especially with the 17 to 37 age group. Peter is also current artistic Director of Kildare Youth Theatre.
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Bending Spoons Faerie Liquid Our Lady Of the Flowers Three Figures At A Well Waiting For MargotBending Spoons
Synopsis:
bending spoons was short-listed for the Rough Magic seeds project in 2001. It is a dark comedy set in what appears to be a rehabilitation institute but which turns out to be somewhere altogether different. Two men enact various roles exploring the changing nature of intimacy in a post-colonial world where everything must be saleable in order to have value. Review extract: "Bending Spoons is an absurdist power-play between a shrink and his patient, that nicely segued from dark comedy to serious revelations and back again. Darren Donohue was wonderfully uptight as the patient, while Nick Devlin made a suitable slimy doctor. [. . .] the comparative strength of the play held the audience's attention. Like witnessing Pinter, Kafka, and Woody allen having a punch-up, this is darkly entertaining stuff." - Nick Mc Ginley, Irish theatre Magazine, Winter 2002.
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1st Produced:
Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, County Kildare 24 Oct 2001
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Crooked House Theatre Company
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Top of PageFaerie Liquid
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Three young men in their late teens / early twenties are in an institution of an unspecified nature. they await a formal and terminal punishment. While they wait, they share stories, try to calm each other's fears, and discover the potential of imagination to save them from their pain.
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1st Produced:
Dry Rain, Bray, County Wicklow 1999
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Dry Rain Youth Theatre
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Top of PageOur Lady Of the Flowers
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This is a monologue for one woman. It features an elderly num who is trying to adapt to living in a small house in the community, having spent 50 years in a large convent. Today three things happen to her that bring unforeseen consequences into her life: She makes an attempt to escape. She remembers what she saw in her grandmother's wardrobe 65 years ago. She has forgotten her name.
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1st Produced:
Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, County Kildare 27 Oct 2001
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Crooked House Theatre Company
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momologue One act
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Top of PageThree Figures At A Well
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Three people find themselves at a well in the countryside at various stages in their lives. From there they address the audience. Loosely inspired by Beckett's Play, this short piece consists of the monologues of two women and a man, which interweave to tell a shared story of love, obsession and redemption. Review extract: "Two young women and a teenage boy recite three interlocking monologues. One woman recounts her difficult relationship with her mum, her time in a stultifying boarding school, and subsequent flourishing in the sex industry. a schoolboy muses on whether he loves his girlfriend and his plan to become a writer, while the other woman is a shop-girl who married the only man who ever did anything nice for her. [. . .] "Three Figures" is quite well-written, knowing stuff that has some nice swipes at youthful pretension, self-involvement and the piece's own status as a Beckett homage." - Irish theatre Magazine, Winter 2002.
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1st Produced:
Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, County Kildare 16 Feb 2002
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Crooked House Theatre Company
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Top of PageWaiting For Margot
Synopsis:
the play is a romp in one act and features two of the Wyrd Sisters from Macbeth waiting on the common for the third to arrive. a man, whom they mistake for Macbeth but who is really Godot, arrives and in the ensuing confusion questions are raised and smartly answered about the relationships of characters to authors, audience's expectations and the concept of storytelling as a medium for exploring truth.
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1st Produced:
The Blue Room, Newbridge, County Kildare May 1999
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Crooked House Theatre Company
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Genre:
comedy One act
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Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: -
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