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Colm O'shea

COLM O'SHEA

  
Nationality:    USA
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below is a list of Colm O'shea's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Hypnotik: the Seer Will Doctor You Now         Mapping Mobius

Hypnotik: the Seer Will Doctor You Now

Synopsis:
In a decadent society, everything is entertainment. This is the world of Hypnotik. At the infamous Palace theatre, a hypnotist promises psychic healing to volunteers. One by one he beckons his subjects to the stage where under his entrancement they reveal their most abject and malignant drives. But when the self-described "spectacle of raw shame" fails to deliver a group catharsis, the game of shame gives way to horror, as the Seer stares into a whirlwind poised to swallow more than just the Palace and its host. Hypnotik: the Seer Will Doctor You Now is loosely based on the bizarre and intriguing life of the Viennese occultist Eric Jan Hanussen, a celebrity in the Berlin theater scene during the rise of Hitler's Third Reich.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Author: Ildiko Nemeth, Colm O'shea, Marie Glancy O'shea

1st Produced:
Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009    28 Dec 2011

Organisations:
New Stage Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama 80 min

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Mapping Mobius

Synopsis:
In this piece, an aging scientist, realizing his inquiries continually return him to a model of his own mind, devises a set of experiments that blur the distinction between his inner and outer worlds. Mapping Mobius will be presented in a "white box" space with platforms, to be used as a platform for intricate projections and choreography. In the tradition of NSTC productions, the play's style and visual life are derived from the scientific problems addressed by its inspiration, the famed 18th century German mathematician August Ferdinand Mobius. the Mobius strip, named for its theoretician, is a surface with only one side. Most objects have at least two sides: a back and a front (inside and out). Because of the way it twists, a Mobius strip has only one. An ant moving along the "inside" would find itself "outside." An ant moving along the "outside" would find itself "inside" again. In Mapping Mobius, this concept informs the journey of an introspective scientist who feels overwhelmed by his own inescapable interiority. Nearing the end of his career, he comes to the realization that his life's work - objective study - is misguided. He recruits a young girl to help him explore the mysteries of the mind, reasoning that this is where all his models of the world originate. Together they embark on a tour of universal history, making stops to take in the inchoate, pre-linguistic world of plankton; the stories told by dinosaur bones; the electioneering of colonial ants; and the cynical business lectures of a world-weary bee. But they are entering a dangerous realm; as cool observation slides into personal chaos, it becomes clear there's no map for this territory.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
adapted by Colm O'shea, Marie Glancy-O'shea, And Ildiko Nemeth

1st Produced:

Organisations:
New Stage Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

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Genre:
75 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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