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Brian Merriman

BRIAN MERRIMAN

  
Nationality:    Irish
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Brian Merriman's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Eirebrushed         Gentleman Caller         Half-Time         Midnight Court         Poets Cornered         Seventy         Tumbling Down         Wretched Little Brat

Eirebrushed

Synopsis:
Four gay and lesbian Irish activists airbrushed from history. Roger Casement, Eva Gore Booth, Paidrig Pearse and Elizabeth O'Farrell. They all return to present day Dublin to see how the revolution worked out

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Genre:
Gay/Lesbian historical characters

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Gentleman Caller

Synopsis:
An old man's funeral - but has the Catholic Church erased his real life story?

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1st Produced:
New Theatre, Dublin     2008

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Genre:
Short play. - - Gay, one act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Half-Time

Synopsis:
the captain of Lenchester United Football Club has been outed and the fans are up in arms

Notes:
Written by Brian Merriman and Peter Smith

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Genre:
Gay, one act

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Midnight Court

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Written by Brian Merriman And Frank O'Conner

1st Produced:
Irish Tour     2008

Organisations:
Teaspach Theatre Company

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Poets Cornered

Synopsis:
Shakespeare and Wilde and their love poems to men and a shadowy Irish patriot and his love poetry

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Genre:
Gay, one act

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Seventy

Synopsis:
Gay life seventy years ago

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1st Produced:
Outhouse Theatre, Dublin     2009

Organisations:
International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival

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Genre:
One act. - - Gay, one act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Tumbling Down

Synopsis:
1989. the Berlin Wall falls and the winner of Eurovision is. . .?

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1st Produced:
International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival At The Cobalt Cafe     2008

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Genre:
One act. - - Gay, one act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Wretched Little Brat

Synopsis:
The untold story of persecuted love, moralistic law and endless litigation between Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie) and Robbie Ross, Oscar Wilde's lovers. Meet an array of political and literary characters in an unresolved battle of the moral versus the lawful that raged until 1945. George Bernard Shaw exclaimed when he met Bosie that he was a 'Wretched Little Brat'. This new full length play charts the lives of Robbie Ross who dedicated his life to maintain Wilde's legacy after his death in 1900, and Lord Alfred Douglas who did the opposite. The litigation that ruined Wilde went on to try to destroy Ross as Douglas hounded him through the courts for promoting homosexuality. The play charts the Wilde years and beyond to Bosie's death in 1945. Based on their own testimony, "Wretched Little Brat" reveals the lives underscoring one of the most "scandalous" episodes in history, and how it continues to impact in modern times.

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part of Dublin Gay Theatre Festival

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Genre:
LGBT full length 135 min

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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