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John McCann

JOHN MCCANN

  (1972 - )
Nationality:    British
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John is originally from County Armagh in Northern Ireland. He now lives in Scotland where his short play THIS LONG TIME was given a staged reading at the Traverse Theatre as part of TEN and where another play, the NEXT OF IT, was read as part of Stellar Quines' REHEARSAL ROOM 16. He was one of four emerging writers selected to participate in the Playwrights' Studio Scotland mentoring programme during 2009-1010. His latest play, the CLEANROOM, was recently staged by Tinderbox Theatre Company in Belfast as part of the acclaimed TRUE NORTH ensemble project. [image credit: Alan McCredie]

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

         Cleanroom, The         Dark Sky         Home         Next Of It, The         Spoiling         This Long Time

Cleanroom, The

Synopsis:
Karen has managed the cleanroom of a pharmaceutical packaging firm for fifteen years. It's more than a just a job - the cleanroom has been her place of refuge during turbulent times. Suddenly nothing is safe. Karen's secret relationship with employee Saul is attracting unwanted attention. Her late husband's cronies are watching her day and night. And the factory is facing closure. Just when it seems things couldn't get worse, into the cleanroom walks Molly. She claims to have been transferred to help the cleanroom survive the day, but it soon becomes clear that she has very personal motives for being there. As the workforce shrinks and time runs out, Karen, Saul and Molly are forced to confront some dangerous truths about their past.

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part of True North

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Play/Drama

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Dark Sky

Synopsis:
Jamesy stands on Calton Hill at dusk observing an alien city below. Jamesy is alone. He shouldn't be. All he wants to do is see his daughter but he's not allowed. Not today. If he can't see her then she will see him.

Notes:
part of Life of the Mind: 4 Plays. Playwrights James Ley, Mairead Martin, John McCann And Rachel Clive have recently completed the Playwrights' Studio Scotland mentoring scheme, And Are delighted to present extracts of their work in this collaborative event between the Playwrights' Studio And the Scottish Mental Health Arts And Film Festival with support of the Arches. the event will present rehearsed readings of extracts from the following four plays:

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Cca Glagow    02 Oct 2010

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extract reading

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Home

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One city, 50 writers, 50 plays, 25,000 words. In celebration of our 50th anniversary, we invited fifty emergent playwrights to work with us over the course of our birthday year. the worldwide search for the Traverse Fifty started last September with a challenge to write a 500-word Play for Edinburgh. Of the 630 applications, we selected the most urgent voices to form our Traverse Fifty. In January, these 50 plays were premiered all together, in one epic performance. This August, in the midst of our Festival Fever, we are re-staging these extraordinary plays, over two thrilling nights. This is your chance to see the future.

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5 min play

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Next Of It, The

Synopsis:
A black comedy, set in County Armagh, about family secrets and the legacy of silence. An old blind woman is digging her grave. She enlists her teenage grand-daughter to dig with her, to the disgust of the girl's mother who bans the girl from returning. However, the girl does go back the following day to help her grandmother and in so doing, learns the secret which has driven the family apart with silence and reproaches for as long as she can remember.

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by Gabriel Quigley And Vicki Liddelle. Part of Rehearsal Room 16. From A hairdressing salon in Edinburgh's Royal Mile to Scotland's only women's prison, Stellar Quines bring you three different evenings with three new plays. Get involved in vigorous debate with the writers, directors And Actors As they present their works in progress. Find out how they have reached this point. Listen to their conversations As they take on your ideas to help build the productions of the future.

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Stellar Quines Theatre Company

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Black Comedy

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Spoiling

Synopsis:
In half an hour the Scottish Foreign Minister is due to make a keynote speech outlining the nation's relationship with its neighbours in the former UK. there is a problem. She is refusing to speak the form of words she's been given. She has something else she wants to say.

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Methuen Drama   -

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short play

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This Long Time

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part of A celebration of ten new theatre voices. Ten new ten-minute plays from ten emerging playwrights; All past participants of the Traverse writing workshops or Words, Words, Words.

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Ten Min

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