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Sean McCarthy

SEAN MCCARTHY  (1945 - )

 Nationality:    Irish
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Sean McCarthy is the author of fifteen plays, which have been premiered in Dublin, Edinburgh, London and most recently in his home city of Cork. He has also written four TV screenplays which were broadcast on the BBC and several episodes and stories of GLENROE, Ireland's most famous TV Drama series. Since joining in the Abbey Theatre in 1964 as an actor and training there as a director he has worked at some of the most prestigious Theatres in Ireland and the U.K. including. the Gate, the Abbey, the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh Traverse, the Glasgow Citizens. Sean was a founding member of the Scottish 7:84 Theatre Company,

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

         Beneath One Banner         Childish Things         Divisions         Dixie         Doll's House, A         Fantastical Feats of Finn MacCool         God Is Good         Marble Madonna, The         Rise And Shine         Three Bunches of Blood and a Lump of Fog

Beneath One Banner

Synopsis:
Set during a pit-strike in a Scottish pit-town in the 1860s, a group of highlanders march back home, led by their piper, instead of crossing the picket. A group of starving Irish dispossessed tenant-farmer and their families appear, sent with a promise of work in the coal mine. Hotheaded Orangemen in the Scottish community are determined to teach them a lesson

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1st Produced:
Cumbernauld Theatre, on tour    1985

Organisations:
7:84, Scotland

1st Published:
irishplayography.com , 2005   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
play Historical

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  Some doubling is possible

Further Reference:
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Childish Things

Synopsis:
Charlie and Maire leave Thatcher's London to return to Cork, full of optimism and idealism. However the 'dinner party' they throw to reunite with three of their closest, oldest friends, turns into an evening of bitching and drinking, ending up literally in a right mess. the blighted idealism of the returning couple (who emigrated in the first place for moral/philosophical, rather than economic reasons) clashes with the shallow, conservative materialism of those who stayed behind to build the "new" Ireland, and gives us, what could be called, a very black comedy of manners.

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1st Published:
irishplayography.com , 2003   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Divisions

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Photocopy TS

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: 7:84 (Scotland) Theatre Company - Acc.10893/212

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Dixie

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Limerick: Belltable Arts Centre, Ireland, EUR    1992

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Doll's House, A

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Fantastical Feats of Finn MacCool

Synopsis:
A modern reworking of the legend of the Fianna. the plot interweaves the stories of Oisin and Tir na nog, with the romance of Diarmuid and Grainne, culminating in a cruel take on Saint Patrick and a denial of Oisin's conversion

Notes:
the play is set wherever it is performed And the number of the cast can be Arrived At by mutual Agreement, probably About ten. the original production featured music played And composed by Planxty.

1st Produced:
the Haymarket Ice Rink, Edinburgh    1974

Organisations:
Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, with the Edinburgh International Festival

1st Published:
irishplayography.com , 2005   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  23            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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God Is Good

Synopsis:
Set in Glasgow in 1974 this play centres on a Scots Irish family, who are on the brink of owning their own home and joining the middle class after years of toil. However the sectarian strife, which is rife in the city, threatens to tear them apart. Rose, the Glasgow-born mother of the family, makes heroic efforts to hold them all together, but her son's involvement in paramilitary activity precipitates a dreadful tragedy, which ultimately brings about the destruction of the family unit

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Royal Lyceum Theatre

1st Published:
irishplayography.com , 2005   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Marble Madonna, The

Synopsis:
the Marble Madonna explores a love affair between Don, an experienced man, and Joan, a woman involved for the first time outside her marriage. Set against a background of religious constraints, the play explores the effects this affair has on the characters and their journey of self-discovery.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Tron Theatre

1st Published:
irishplayography.com , 2005   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Rise And Shine

Synopsis:
A young couple lie in bed one morning trying to motivate themselves to face the day. Through them the play explores the absurdity of the rat race and material ambition, and sees hope only in relationships only on their simplest level.

Notes:
This script is now Available for sale on irishplayography.com

1st Produced:
Poole Theatre Edinburgh    1973

Organisations:
Poole Lunch Hour Theatre

1st Published:
Co-op Books, Ireland, 1979   -

Music:
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Genre:
comedy One Act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Three Bunches of Blood and a Lump of Fog

Synopsis:
An interweaving of three Irish Myths, related with the aid of mime dance an slapstick.

Notes:
the minimum number of performers is four, but the play can be produced with more. It is best performed to the Accompaniment of A percussion score.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  Percussionists

Further Reference:
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