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Ronan O'Donnell

RONAN O'DONNELL

  
Nationality:    Scottish
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Ronan is based in Edinburgh and writes plays for the professional stage and community groups. He also writes short films. In 1998 his first play The Chic Nerds was produced by The Traverse Theatre. In 2002 Spambam was produced by LookOut Theatre company. It toured Scotland and was produced in Sydney and at the Melbourne Festival in 2003. In 2003 he wrote a new Scots translation of Aristophanes' Lysistrata which was performed by Common Force Community Theatre. In 2004 for the same company he wrote The Ned's Lament, based on John Gay's Beggar's Opera, which had a revival at the Brunton in 2014. Also in 2003 Brazil was produced by Theatre of Imagination and had a run at the Latchmere in London. In 2004 he wrote a version of Beijing playwright Xiaoli Wang's In the Bag for the Traverse. In 2005 The Doll Tower, a play based on the life of T.E. Lawrence and his Scottish bodyguard John Bruce, ran in Liverpool at the Unity Theatre. In 2011 Angels was produced at Oran Mor in Glasgow. Angels was nominated for best new play for that year and ran at the Traverse during the 2012 festival. In 2012 he wrote the screenplay The Wayward Wind, a community project for older people in East Lothian. He has written short film scripts, Daydream in the Honest Toun (2011) and Swimming at Sangin (2010). His Scottish Gothic play The Sin-Eaters had a reading at the Tron in April 2014.

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         Angels         Brazil         Chic Nerds, The         Doll Tower, The         In the Bag         Lysistrata         Ned's Lament, The         Sin-Eaters, The         Spambam

Angels

Angels
An uproarious underworld whodunit, Ronan O'Donnell's single-hander reworks the hardboiled crime thriller for our times. A suspicious death at the workplace and loner security guard Nick Prentice is hauled in for interrogation. the Inspector thinks he's got his man, as Nick's seedy wee stories' seem to nail him to the crime. Is he complicit in the death of two-bit shoplifter Gary Glover? Will Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson come to his rescue?

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Genre:
short whodunit

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Brazil

Brazil
It's the near future and America is at war with Europe . . . Trapped in this disorientating world . . . Doddy hares around the depressed estates and vast rubbish dumps that make up his home town . . . a promising new writer' Times

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Theatre of Imagination

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in Singular male Voices, Nick Hern Books, London, 2004   -

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Play/Drama

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Chic Nerds, The

Synopsis:
Reaching beyond the world of sex, rock 'n' roll, and most of all, drugs, explores the identity behind the public persona of a young man overwhelmed by a manipulative industry

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Traverse theatre, Edinburgh, 1998   -

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Doll Tower, The

Doll Tower, The
It's 1922, and T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia), is now plain T.E. Shaw (of Dorset). He is encamped incognito with his bodyguard John Bruce, and the other raw recruits at Bovington Tanks. Seven Pillars of Wisdom comes up against the hangover from the Great War.

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Nick Hern Books 2005   978-1854598912

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In the Bag

In the Bag
the first modern Chinese play to be seen in Britain, in an English version by Ronan O'Donnell first seen at the Traverse theatre in Edinburgh. Translated, the Mandarin phrase 'In the Bag' means 'safe and secure' as well as 'trapped and contained'. Hard-edged but tender, In the Bag explores, through the relationships of two couples, a culture torn between its history and its contemporary reality.

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Original Playwright - Wang Xiaoli

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Nick Hern Books, London >>>    978-1854598745

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Adaptation

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Lysistrata

Synopsis:
This production in Scots is set on a boat carrying refugees who decide to perform Aristophane's play

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Original Playwright - Aristophanes

1st Produced:
Netherbow Theatre, Edinburgh, Uk    2004

Organisations:
Common Force Community Theatre, Edinburgh

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Ned's Lament, The

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based on John Gay's Beggar's Opera

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Common Force Community Theatre    2004

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Sin-Eaters, The

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Traverse Theatre Company

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Spambam

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Lookout Theatre Company    -

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