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Jim Nolan

JIM NOLAN

  (1958 - )
Nationality:    Irish
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Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency, NY  

Jim Nolan is a writer and director. He is a former Artistic Director of Red Kettle Theatre Company. He was Writer-in Association with the Abbey Theatre in 2001. He is a member of AosdanA.

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

         Amereka         Black Pool, The         Blackwater Angel         Boathouse, The         Brighton         Dear Kenny         Dreamland         Gods are Angry, Miss Kerr, The         Guernica Hotel, The         Heartstone         Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye         Moonshine         Road to Carne, The         Round and Round the Garden         Salvage Shop, The         Sky Road

Amereka

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An Irish immigrant to the US just loves America

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Short play

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Black Pool, The

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Red Kettle Theatre Company    

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Play One Act

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Blackwater Angel

Synopsis:
the Cromwellian soldier Valentine Greatrakes (1628-1682) caaused a sensation when he visited London after the Restoration and reportedly began to cure those suffering from the King's Evil and other afflictions. the play takes up the celebrated healer's story as he returns to his native Ireland and finds his castle surrounded by an "army of lepers" hopeful of a cure.
Robert Shore, Time Out London

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Gallery Press, Ireland, 2001   -

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full length Play/Drama

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Male:  8            Female:  6            Other:  doubling possible

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Boathouse, The

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Dublin Theatre Festival In association with Team Educational Theatre Company

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Brighton

Brighton
Set in the Sisters of Calvary Nursing Home in London, Jim Nolan's new play *Brighton* follows plucky Irish widow, Fulham FC supporter and 'terror of the Third Floor', Lily Thompson (Gillian Hanna) on her last great adventure. Sustained by her excursions to the outside world and the friendship of Care Assistant and passionate Arsenal fan, Dave Kelly (Andrew Macklin), the arrival of a new resident, celebrated actor, Jack Dunhill (Mark Lambert), brings them all unexpected challenges and new horizons.

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Gallery Press 2010   978-1852354923

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Dear Kenny

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St Salem's National School, The Vale, Bailiboro, Co. Cavan As Part Of A Tour To Schools     1988

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Genre:
play for primary school students

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Dreamland

Dreamland
1934. John Kinane buys the rights to a whale that has washed up on the shore. He intends that the whale's skeleton should be an exhibit at his pleasure park Dreamland

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Gallery Press 2014   978-1852356125

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Gods are Angry, Miss Kerr, The

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Red Kettle Theatre Company

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full length Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Guernica Hotel, The

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Red Kettle Theatre Company

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Heartstone

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Lombard St. Studios, Dublin As Part Of A Tour To Schools.     1986

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Genre:
post-primary school students

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Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye

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Set in a provincial newspaper office in the Irish Midlands in the run up to Easter 2016, the privately owned Inishshannon Chronicle has just been acquired by a media conglomerate and the new brush is about to sweep clean. As the newspaper's staff adjust to radical changes in its structure and ethos, the town it serves prepares to celebrate a tenuous connection to the Easter Rising. The revelation that this connection is not quite what it seems puts the Chronicle's editor on a collision course with both his new bosses and the local business and political community.

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Moonshine

Moonshine
Northern Irish seaside town. The local Protestant church is closing down and the undertaker wants to put on a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

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Red Kettle Theatre Company

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Gallery Press, Ireland, 1992   978-1852350963

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Road to Carne, The

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Genre:
play for 8-12 year olds

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Round and Round the Garden

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Tour To Schools     1981

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Salvage Shop, The

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won the Irish Times/ESB Award for Best New Play

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Red Kettle Theatre Company

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Gallery Press, Ireland, 1998   -

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Sky Road

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