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Ciaran McConville

CIARAN MCCONVILLE

  
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    David Higham Associates Ltd  represented by Nicky Lund

Ciaran McConville: Other writing includes My Father the Angel (developed at the NT Studio), Reach for Tomorrow and a screenplay called The Last Enemy. Adaptations include Nineteen Eighty-Four (Guardian critic's choice), The Gift of the Magi and, for children, Oliver Twist and Frankenstein. Other children's plays include Pip's War. Ciaran is currently writing a play called Stones for director Jane Briers. He is a finalist of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Award 2008 and, with Elizabeth Park, a founding director of Debut Theatre Company. He works regularly at ArtsEd London, directing The Winter's Tale for the MA Acting Course earlier in 2010. As an actor, Ciaran most recently appeared at the Southwark Playhouse in Beyond the Pale. Before that he performed in the international tour of The Frightful First World War and The Woeful Second World War for Birmingham Stage Company. He has also appeared inTreasure Island (BSC), Sound Dust (Theatre 503), The Awful Egyptians and The Ruthless Romans (BSC), Pride & Prejudice (Illyria), You Never Can Tell (Peter Hall Company), The Things Good Men Do (Lyric Hammersmith) and The Master and Margarita (Menier Chocolate Factory). TV appearances include Man Stroke Woman (BBC3) andCall Me a Cabbie (ITV1). Radio includes From Fact to Fiction: Left for BBC Radio 4, which Ciaran developed with director Jamie Harper. He has also collaborated with Jamie on a number of pieces at the National Theatre Studio.

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         Christmas Carol, A         Gift Of the Magi, The         Hansel and Gretel         Heaven in Berlin         Horrible Histories : the Awful Egyptians         Horrible Histories: Barmy Britain         Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans         Immortal (The Legend of Squadron 463)         Lay Your Sleeping Head         Legend Of Squadron 463, The         Leipzig 1981         Man Who Dreamed, The         Miracleboy         My Father the Angel         My Father the Angel         Nineteen Eighty Four         Oliver Twist And Frankenstein         Our Town: A Kingston Story         Over Me Now there Is Only Blue Sky And God         Pip's War         Pitching In         Reach for Tomorrow         Realm, The         Settling Dust, The         Shostakovich         Snowbound         Tess of the d'Urbervilles         These Four Walls         Touched by Fire         Trial, The
Christmas Carol, A

Synopsis:
Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas. He hates charity, he hates carol singers and more than anything he hates spending money. But this is a year like no other as Scrooge is propelled on a helter-skelter, supernatural ride through Christmases past, present and future. From carefree youth to misguided greed, from snowscapes to city streets, this is an epic adventure of the imagination. Will Scrooge open his heart to the true spirit of Christmas before it's too late? Promising another heart-warming family production, Ciaran McConville directs a company of actors joined by members of the Rose Youth Theatre in his own brand new adaptation of Dickens' enchanting story.

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Kingston-upon-Thames: Rose Theatre     01 Dec 2015

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Genre:
pantomime

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  cast of 33

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Gift Of the Magi, The

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Adaptation

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Hansel and Gretel

Synopsis:
Hansel and Gretel are offered a trip to the city but get lost in the forest. They meet Pinocchio, Red Riding Hood and Snow White. They come across a gingerbread house

Notes:
Music and lyrics by Eamonn O'Dwyer; book by Ciaran McConville

1st Produced:
Rose Theatre, Kingston     06 Dec 2018

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Pantomime

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Heaven in Berlin

Synopsis:
Live music, choreography and promenade performance combine to capture the spirit of Berlin in the 1980s: a city at the front line of the Cold War and a hotbed of artistic exploration. 'Heaven in Berlin is a play with live music about families, freedom and the supernatural, performed in Testbed1, a large non-theatre space in Battersea. Loosely based on The Tempest, the island city of Berlin is the setting of a story of exile, parents and children, domination of the weak and liberation through beauty and faith in strange magic. The production is both domestic and epic in scope. Family relationships form the core of the drama but through the use of music, choreography and wide open space, we will move beyond a base of simple naturalism into a heightened performance state that is decisively theatrical.'

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1st Produced:
Testbed1, Battersea, London     25 Sep 2013

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Hobo Theatre

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Horrible Histories : the Awful Egyptians

Synopsis:
From the fascinating Pharaohs to the power of the pyramids, discover the foul facts of death and decay with the meanest mummies in Egypt. Dare you enter through the Gates of the Afterlife? Beware the Evil Eye of Horus, which is watching you!

Notes:
Terry Deary, Adapted by Ciaran McConville, John-Paul Cherrington

1st Produced:
Civic Theatre, Darlington     06 Feb 2007

Organisations:
Birmingham Stage Company

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115 min Youth Audience

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Horrible Histories: Barmy Britain

Synopsis:
Have you ever wondered why the Romans never won MasterChef? What if a Viking moved in next door? Would you lose your heart or head to horrible Henry? Will Parliament escape gunpowder Guy? Enrol yourself at Georgian Crime School, dare to dance the Tyburn jig and find out what a baby farmer did!

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by Terry Deary, Neal Foster & Ciaran McConville

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Birmingham Stage Company

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TYA 60 min

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans

Synopsis:
Roman soldiers arrive at the home of thirteen year old Ethel. there is a kink in the road and to straighten it the must go through her home

Notes:
Based on the book by Terry Deary

1st Produced:
Tour     01 Jan 2011

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Birmingham Stage Company

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Genre:
Childrens play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Immortal (The Legend of Squadron 463)

Synopsis:
the surviving members of a Lancaster Bomber crew shelter in a deserted school in Holland. One of their number is mortally wounded, the rest cold and shattered. they must keep each other going through the night with humour and camaraderie. "As comical as it is haunting. . . . Debut theatre Company's production maintains a perfect balance of humour and urgency throughout." Time Out. "An involving piece of theatre handled effortlessly.. the dialogue's great with a nice line in humour and there's an unexpected twist at the end." **** the Scotsman

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Production first seen on the 2002 Edinburgh Fringe As the Legend of Squadron 463

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C Venues Edinburgh Festival Fringe     01 Aug 2002

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Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Lay Your Sleeping Head

Synopsis:
Molly discovers seventy years of family secrets

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1st Produced:
Artsed, London     2008

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Drama

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Legend Of Squadron 463, The

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aka Immortal

1st Produced:
Edinburgh Festival     2002

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Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Leipzig 1981

Synopsis:
Greta is a lost soul, an under-achiever who attracts lonely men. Her brother Nikolaus is a musician in the Gewandhaus Orchestra. Lena is a gifted concert-pianist. All three are orphans. When they're offered an illegal route to the West, they become unwitting pawns in a game motivated by vengeance and power-play. Only Ernst, a junior officer in the Stasi, crippled by his own misdeeds, is able to save them. But in Leipzig, no one can be trusted, no one can be relied upon, and it's only a matter of time before the pressures take a terrible toll of their own.

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1st Produced:
Artsed, London     2010

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Drama

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Man Who Dreamed, The

Synopsis:
Arthur Penman is a nobody. He works for the reputable firm of Singleton, Drab and Gray. But one night he returns home to find a beautiful woman waiting for him. An actress. He is whipped up into a world of theatre, writing, dreaming and ultimately madness. "the great joy of the Festival is discovering groups and writers you'd not come across before. Funny, touching and riotously inventive, this tautly scripted, superbly performed gem was head and shoulders above many big name, big budget productions elsewhere in the Festival. the company are clearly names to watch." the Irish Post. "Thirty seconds into this production, I could feel the tension in my shoulders loosen, the corners of my mouth upturn into a half-smile and my every muscle relax, secure in the knowledge that I was in the presence of accomplished performers who were going to enchant me with their fairytale, without a single line-fluff, a glimpse of over-acting or self indulgence." the Scotsman

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1st Produced:
C Venues Edinburgh Festival Fringe     01 Aug 2002

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Miracleboy

Synopsis:
Meet Mary and Joseph: he smells strangely of cat piss and she's spent the last decade waiting for a visit from three wise men. They want to tell you about their Miracleboy and why, though life is hard, they are the richest parents in the world. With no shortage of fish and loaves. This is a story of Virgin salesmen, brothels, the fatal envy of middle-class mums and close-up miracles that will make you believe. Bring gifts. Gold preferable but credit cards accepted.

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1st Produced:
Bad Physics, Clerkenwell Design Week     2012

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Genre:
comedy

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My Father the Angel

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Developed At The Nt Studio, London    

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My Father the Angel

Synopsis:
Dads are just no good at saying things. We're terrified of our kids from the moment they're born. The rest is about avoiding eye contact. Kick a ball around the garden with your boy, pick up your little girl from a pyjama party, but never let them see you're scared. . . When Hayley takes the job of nursing Terry in his final days, the first thing she does is contact his son. But reuniting the family is complicated. Everyone has a grudge to bear and Terry is in no mood to apologise. As she becomes more desperate, it emerges that Hayley is withholding something extraordinary about herself.

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part of Writers' Block - {a week of new work}; 6 of the very best plays in development. 6 emerging talents challenge, cajole And entertain As they dissect Apocalyptic justice, soul-searching Absurdism, the cause And Affect of the human cost of war And other global musings. . .

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Operating Theatre Company in association with the Tristan Bates Theatre

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Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Nineteen Eighty Four

Synopsis:
A new adaptation of Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian superstate.

Notes:
Produced with permission of the Orwell Estate, 2004.

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Oliver Twist And Frankenstein

Synopsis:
Oliver Twist was an instant hit by a prodigious twenty-five year old writer. Famously, the docks of New York were lined with crowds awaiting the delivery of each new chapter. A cast of thirty take us on Oliver's terrifying journey, from workhouse slavery to child exploitation at the heart of London's slums. An enduring crime thriller presented by a group of talented local youth.

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1st Produced:
Rose Theatre Kingston     2012

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Genre:
Youth Audience

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Our Town: A Kingston Story

Synopsis:
Grace works at a call centre. She has had a row with her boyfriend and a telephone call from a medieval woman. then her Father digs up a treasure in the back garden and the diary of a Victorian

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1st Produced:
Rose Theatre, Kingston     2010

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Drama

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Over Me Now there Is Only Blue Sky And God

Synopsis:
A regular prayer group in Leipzig grows to become the first mass demonstration within the GDR, attracting four hundred thousand protestors. As the Berlin Wall begins to crumble, so do the realities of some of those involved. A tormented Stasi officer discovers a hole in his heart, a political artist begins to turn to cement, a bigamist art-dealer is pursued by his client's graffiti, the ghost of a border-crosser returns to fall in love with a young musician. Violence, sacrifice and extraordinary love underpin the Peaceful Revolution that will lead to the collapse of the world's most infamous frontier.

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1st Produced:
Artsed, London     2010

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Drama

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Pip's War

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Youth Audience

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Pitching In

Synopsis:
At a summer music festival, six misfits spin off each other with dramatic consequences. Kate falls for Taz, who in turn meets her soulmate in Danny. Elle struggles to keep the secret of her affair with Justin. And Nathan can't find his campsite. It is an in-tents' soap-opera for the stage, packed with explosive water-cooler moments and tantalising cliffhangers.

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1st Produced:
Latitude Festival     2010

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Bad Physics

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Genre:
Drama. - - Lesbian, theme/character, full length

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Reach for Tomorrow

Synopsis:
Four university friends become involved in an extremist group with adverse effects.

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1st Produced:
Assembly Rooms, Durham     22 Oct 1998

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Play/Drama

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Realm, The

Synopsis:
A re-telling of the classic story of Orpheus and Eurydice. Oppie's only friend is the ghost of a girl who haunts his orphanage. When confronted with losing her for ever, he travels to hell and back to save the girl he loves. On the way he meets a forlorn ferryman, a conflicted hellhound, several sinister cherubs and the Queen of the Dead.

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1st Produced:
Rose Theatre, Kingston     2009

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Genre:
Drama

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Settling Dust, The

Synopsis:
Two American brothers go to Islamic Africa to make a film in the wake of 9/11. Their arrival in a provincial town stirs up a dust storm of the kind no one had expected.

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Lay Your Sleeping Head - 2008

1st Produced:
Union Se1, London     08 Mar 2005

Organisations:
Entropy Ink

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Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Shostakovich

Synopsis:
Moscow, 1969. In the early hours of the morning Shostakovich awakes suddenly from a nightmare to find the ghost of one of his students at the bottom of his bed. While the sun rises over Moscow, the two men explore Shostakovich's life, examining his morbid fascination with death against his roles as cultural icon, enemy of the people, teacher, Father and football fan.

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Watermill Theatre, Newbury & ArtsEd, London

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Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Snowbound

Snowbound
In a Somerset farmhouse, Molly discovers seventy years of family secrets. Through love and war, loss and reunion, past voices reverberate through her comfortable life, forcing her to ask the question, why are we so scared of being alone?

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Snowbound was given A rehearsed reading At the National theatre Studio on 14 October 2005

1st Produced:
National Theatre Studio, London     2006

Organisations:
Debut Theatre Company

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Synopsis:
Tess is a lowborn country girl. When her family discovers that they might have ties to nobility, she is sent to rescue them from destitution. Hardy's masterpiece is a heart-rending love story, in which tradition clashes head-on with modernity.

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adapted from novel by Thomas hardy

1st Produced:
Rose Theatre Kingston     2013

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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These Four Walls

Synopsis:
Auschwitz, 1944. A young Jewish prisoner hides in a cellar. Here she caresses her dreams and memories and talks to the children she will never have.

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1st Produced:
C Venues Edinburgh Festival Fringe     01 Aug 2004

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Play/Drama

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Touched by Fire

Synopsis:
A mental hospital receives three new patients: a woman haunted by her husband; a man obsessed by time; and a stranger who claims to be Death. They and their nurse are inextricably bound by the events at a hijacked theatre.

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Inspired by events such As the Moscow theatre Siege, writer Ciaran McConville has come up with An intriguing response via A mental institution.. Stranger-in-asylum has become A well-trodden sub-genre but McConville veers into unexpected territory. A confi

1st Produced:
C Central, Edinburgh Festival     01 Aug 2003

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Trial, The

Synopsis:
When two men come to Joseph K's flat one morning, eat his breakfast and arrest him for an unnamed crime, he finds himself spiraling through a terrifying labyrinth of modern bureaucracy. Funny, chilling and prophetic, this specially commissioned adaptation of one of the twentieth century's most important novels injects the Kafka's story with enormous pace and physical energy.

Notes:
adapted from novel by Franz Kafka

1st Produced:
Rose Theatre Kingston     2012

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