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Tom (1) O'Brien

TOM (1) O'BRIEN  (1946 - )

 Nationality:    Irish
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Literary Agent:    agent: David Donegan


Tom O'Brien is a native of Kilmacthomas, Co Waterford, and has published many poems, articles and short stories, as well as novels and plays. He has conducted workshops on writing for writers groups and adult education centres, and directed a number of plays during his time as a member of his local amateur dramatic group. A number of his plays have premiered on the London Fringe circuit, including Money From America, Cricklewood Cowboys, Jack Doyle - Gorgeous Gael, Johnjo, On Raglan Road. He has lived in Hastings UK since 2000

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below is a list of Tom (1) O'Brien's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Bottom Dog         Brendan's Women         Cricklewood Cowboys         Down Bottle Alley         Frightening The Crows         Gorgeous Gaels Wha?         Jack Doyle - Gorgeous Gael         Johnjo         Kathy Kirby - Icon         Missing Postman, The         Money from America         Of Mice and Men         On Raglan Road         Pecker Dunne -Last of the Travellers         Put Your Sweet Lips         Queenie         Quest3

Bottom Dog

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documents the experience of a group of Irish immigrants to Britain. It focuses specifically on the building-trade, this provided work for many, brought death or injury to quite a few, a precarious living to most and wealth to a handful.
Joe McCallum, What's On

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Brendan's Women

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Cricklewood Cowboys

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Cricklewood Cowboys tells the story of a group of Irish emigrants working on the building sites in London in the 1970's. It examines in a 'warts and all' detail, the construction industry over a period of twenty years. 'The Lump' has always had its fair share of characters and chancers - and more that its fair share of accidents. The play casts a beady eye on the proceedings in a darkly humorous fashion. There's Johnjo; ignorant and unskilled, Bannaher; the big man, the subby, Larry and Terry; the chancers, Dougie; whose temporary home is a coffin, Father Maguire; who might be more at home swinging a pick that his rosary beads, and of course the long-suffering women; Tessa and Bernie.

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Comedy

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Down Bottle Alley

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The life and times of an alcoholic in Hastings, based on a true story.

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White Rock Theatre, Hastings    09 Apr 2008

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Frightening The Crows

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Comedy Drama Comedy

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Gorgeous Gaels Wha?

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Jack Doyle - Gorgeous Gael

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Johnjo

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the story of Irish immigration to this country in the last century: disinherited at home, looking for a better life abroad, driven to work in terrible conditions in the building trade

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Courtyard, London    2005

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Irish Theatre Company

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Kathy Kirby - Icon

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A play with music about 1960's singer Kathy Kirby, who was dubbed the British Marilyn Monroe.

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Genre:
Musical

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Missing Postman, The

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Money from America

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Money from America centres around the return of Jack Carey to his home farm from America. Having subsidised his brother Lardy over the years with money from America, Jack has returned to stake his rightful claim on the farm as elder brother. However, Lardy proves less than willing to give way to change, having lived a solitary life of poteen-manufacturing with only Molly the pig farmer for company. When Jack's fiancee Phyllis arrives from Dublin to set things right tempers flare and secrets are spilled. When Jack is subsequently murdered the questions the police are asking are two-fold - Who? and. . . Why?

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New Theatre Publications (1999)   978-1840942651

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Comedy Drama Comedy

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Of Mice and Men

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from book by John Steinbeck

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On Raglan Road

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play on the life of the Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh

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Pecker Dunne -Last of the Travellers

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A play with music about the travelling musicians of Ireland, mostly concentrating on Pecker Dunne and Margaret Barry. They were both from travelling families, Tinkers, and were marginalised by Irish society. Looked down on, indeed persecuted for their way of life. Both were great singers and musicians, and along with the great Johnny Doran, did more to promote Irish traditional music than almost any other person of our times. Both are dead now and the play is set in a kind of imaginary 'halting site', where departed souls are temporarily resident while awaiting transport to somewhere permanent.

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Genre:
Biographical Play with music

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Put Your Sweet Lips

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Genre:
Musical Drama Musical

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Queenie

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Quest3

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