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Edna O'Brien

EDNA O'BRIEN

  (1932 - )
Nationality:    Irish
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Edna O'Brien was born in County Clare, educated by the Sisters of Mercy in Galway and graduated as a pharmacist before going on to write her first controversial novel, the COUNTRY GIRLS, in 1960. Since then she has written over twenty five books, including WILD DECEMBERS, IN the FOREST and BYRON IN LOVE. Her plays include A PAGAN PLACE (Royal Court, London), VIRGINIA, a play on the life and writings of Virginia Woolf (Haymarket, London), IPHIGENIA (Crucible, Sheffield), OUR FAtheR (Almeida, London), FAMILY BUTCHERS (Magic Theatre, San Francisco), TRIPTYCH (Southwark Playhouse, London), HAUNTED (Royal Exchange, Manchester) and most recently her own adaptation of the COUNTRY GIRLS (Gaiety Theatre, Dublin). She has won a number of awards including the European Prize for Literature, the Ulysses Medal from University College Dublin, and the American National Arts Gold Medal, as well as awards from the Writers' Guild of Great Britain and the Los Angeles Times. In 2011 she won the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award for her story collection, SAINTS AND SINNERS.

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         Blood Memory         Cheap Bunch Of Nice Flowers, A         Country Girls, The         Flesh And Blood         Gathering, The         Haunted         Iphigenia         Madam Bovary         Our Father         Pagan Place, A         Stag         Triptych         VIrginia         Wedding Dress, The

Blood Memory

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Cheap Bunch Of Nice Flowers, A

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London     1962

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in "Plays Of the Year Vol.26", Elek, London, 1963   -

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Genre:
Fantasy Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Country Girls, The

Country Girls, The
the Country Girls, the play, is a highly theatrical and free-flowing telling of this classic coming-of-age story.

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Edna O'Brien's wonderful, wild And moving novel shocked the nation on its publication in 1960. Adapted for the stage by the Author

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Red Kettle Theatre Company

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  doubling and extras

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http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=3733

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Flesh And Blood

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Gathering, The

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A family gather together to celebrate the parents fortieth wedding anniversary and slowly but surely all the secrets and lies, resentments and recriminations come to the surface.

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1423

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Haunted

Haunted
When a bewitching young woman who runs a vintage clothes stall turns up at Mr Berry's London home to collect some clothing, he is entranced. He takes the chance to enjoy her company by accepting free elocution lessons from her in return for presents of expensive clothes and jewellery which belonged to his late wife. the only problem is, Mrs Berry is not actually dead. As Mrs Berry starts to notice her shrinking wardrobe, Mr Berry's fantasy slowly begins to unravel.

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Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=3341
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXIX (2009) Page 0559

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Iphigenia

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A daughter sacrifices herself so her Father can go to war.

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Original Playwright - Euripides (Iphigenia in Aulis)

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  Large Cast

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http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXIII (2003) Page 0158

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Madam Bovary

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Play/Drama

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Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol VII (1987) Page 0158

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Our Father

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Set in rural Ireland in the 1970s, Jamie and Lil O'shea welcome their family home for an anniversary celebration. As the reunion continues, the house resonates with family conflict, love, regret and rivalry.

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Almeida Theatre, London >>>     11 Nov 1999

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XIX (1999) Page 1577

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Pagan Place, A

Pagan Place, A
Creena a young girl in 1940s Ireland becomes a nun to escape from family and country

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Faber and Faber, London, 1973   978-0571103362

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Male:  11            Female:  9            Other:  -

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http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1831

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Stag

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Triptych

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A wife, a mistress and a daughter circumnavigate a husband, a lover and a Father in a poignant study of love and obsession. Triptych is a lyrical portrait of man seen through the eyes of his three women, seamlessly exploring sex, marriage and damaged relationships where love can both liberate and entrap.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Play/Drama 90 min

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Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol XXVIII (2008) Page 0404

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VIrginia

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from the lives and writings of Virginia and Leonard Woolf

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Avon Theatre, Stratford, Ontario     05 Jun 1980

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Ontario Festival Production

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Hogarth Press, 1980   -

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Genre:
Play Biographical

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http://www.Theatrerecord.org/, Theatre Record Vol I (1981) Page 0044

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Wedding Dress, The

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Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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