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Gavin Quinn

GAVIN QUINN  

 Nationality:    Irish
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below is a list of Gavin Quinn's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Amy the Vampire (& her Sister Martina)         Bronze Twist of Your Serpent Muscles, A         Deflowerfucked         For The First Time Ever         Mademoiselle Flic Flac in the Red Room         Martin Assassin of his Wife         Oedipus Loves You         Peepshow         Standoffish         Tailors Requiem

Amy the Vampire (& her Sister Martina)

Synopsis:
and sisterly behaviour. Amy and Martina are hypersensitive, they feel everything around them and inside them with a life and death intensity - and life can be very disappointing if you're not locked in a fantasy world.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Dublin    2002

Organisations:
Corcadorca Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Bronze Twist of Your Serpent Muscles, A

Synopsis:
A study of decay, madness, erotic perversion and complex psychopathic personalities told through mime, dance and music.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Brouhaha International Arts Festival in Liverpool.    1995

Organisations:
Pan Pan Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Physical/Devised Theatre Piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Deflowerfucked

Synopsis:
physical theatre piece which explores another reality, an escape from mundane things

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Pan Pan Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Physical/Devised Theatre Piece

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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For The First Time Ever

Synopsis:
For The First Time Ever is a comedy about therapy, weapons of mass destruction, the rise of the memoir and the fact that nobody is interested in missing adults. It is the story of three robots sent to war and their journey back to civilian robot life told through the original three robots who went to war in the first place. In the end they are transformed into constantly moving happiness machines.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Pan Pan Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Physical/Devised Theatre Piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Mademoiselle Flic Flac in the Red Room

Synopsis:
Adapted from the writings of August Strindberg, Mademoiselle Flic Flac in the Red Room is a pilgrimage play in which Mademoiselle Flic Flac awakes to find out how human beings behave. During the course of the play she learns how difficult life is and how to injure and harm others if she wants to live.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Pan Pan Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  10            Other:  doubling possible

Further Reference:
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Martin Assassin of his Wife

Synopsis:
Set in a mortuary at a time of the Plague, Martin Assassin of his Wife is a black comedy of murder and revenge based on the true story of a man who murders his wife because she moved the mustard pot

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Peter Pan Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Physical/Devised Theatre Piece

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Oedipus Loves You

Gavin Quinn
THINK Sophocles meets the Rovie Family and you're within laughing distance of what Dublin's Pan Pan company get up to when they put a 21st-century spin on Oedipus and make a rocking, rolling soap opera out of Jocasta's dysfunctional household.
- Mary Brennan, Herald

Notes:
Text by Gavin Quinn And Simon Doyle After Seneca And Sophocles

1st Produced:
Dublin Fringe Festival, Smock Alley Theatre    09 Oct 2006

Organisations:
Peter Pan Theatre

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Peepshow

Synopsis:
Peepshow is the story of Henry, George, Selina and Paddy who live together in a small housing estate. A play about the fragility of human relations, Peepshow probes into the habits, tastes and mysteries of the people that we know.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
International Cultural Centre in the Netherlands.    1997

Organisations:
Pan Pan Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Physical/Devised Theatre Piece

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Standoffish

Synopsis:
A play about sulking and beautiful men and women who keep diaries

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Pan Pan Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Tailors Requiem

Synopsis:
It is the master's dream to create the perfect Tailor School to hand down and impart his craft. In teaching his apprentices - Bartok, Number and Agata - he neglects all other aspects of their education, both mentally and morally, so that, in a conventional sense, they grow up wild or blinkered. This almost silent play expresses the relationships of the four equal protagonists locked in their own world.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatre de L'Instant, Brest, France, as part of L'Imaginaire Irlandais Festiv    1996

Organisations:
Pan Pan Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
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:
Physical/Devised Theatre Piece

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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