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MALACHY MCKENNA
Nationality: Irish
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Literary Agent: Lorraine Brennan Management
Malachy McKenna trained as an actor at the Focus Stanislavski Studio in Dublin under the late Deirdre O'Connell, founder of the Focus Theatre and a graduate of the Actors' Studio, New York. He has since appeared in leading roles in many productions throughout Ireland. Tillson burg, his first play, opened at the Focus Theatre in 2000 and had its North American premiere with the Canadian Stage Company in Toronto in 2001. For Tillsonburg Malachy received the 2000 Stewart Parker New Playwright Bursary. the play was translated and published in Romanian and produced by the Arad Theatre in Romania for presentation at the 2005 Sibiu International Theatre Festival. Subsequently it returned to play in repertoire at Arad during the 2005/2006 season.
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Quiet Land, The TillsonburgQuiet Land, The
Synopsis:
Two elderly farmers, Eamon and Nashee, meet at a gate on a remote hillside. These men are old friends, old rivals, old neighbours. They are men of heart, of humour, of hardness. Their conversation is a throwback to a gentler time, when silence was as telling as declaration and meaning was more often found between the lines than on them. But there's nothing gentle about today's conversation. In facing the bitter reality of their remote defiance, Eamon and Nashee have grown fearful and desperate. Now they are forced to confront each other with some heartbreaking truths that test their friendship to its limit. After today, will they ever again talk on this hillside? 'The Quiet Land' is a celebration of the humour, resilience and endearing innocence of an exiled generation as it struggles to survive in the isolated rural Ireland of today. It is Malachy McKenna's heartfelt tribute to a rare breed of forgotten men who live a long way in off the road.
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1st Produced:
Bewley's Cafe Bar, Dublin 17 Aug 2015
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short play
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Two students arrive at a Canadian tobacco farm, ostensibly to make their summer cash but really to revisit mutual resentments festering since last year's expedition; Irish male reserve had blocked any clearing of the air when they got back home. A bit of fresh trauma this time around unveils the hurts of the year before, but there is no catharsis ad healing; the cuts of the old wounds seem only to deepen.
John Fairleigh, Honorary Director, Stewart Parker trust.
John Fairleigh, Honorary Director, Stewart Parker trust.
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Focus Theatre, Dublin 2000
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Play/Drama
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