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Michelle Read

MICHELLE READ

  
Nationality:    Irish
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Michelle Read's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Michelle Read's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Lost Letters of a Victorian Lady, The         Nation's Assets, The         Other Side, The         Play About My Dad         Romantic Friction
Lost Letters of a Victorian Lady, The

Synopsis:
Edith Lampton, the Victorian lady of the title, is an extremely naive, guileless character who, through no choice of her own, becomes embroiled in an international drug smuggling cartel, headed by the notorious Vicar of Marmsey. Brought up in the Victorian ideal of womanhood, Edith is ill-prepared for the bizarre adventure she is drawn into, inhabited by such strange characters as MavErick, the cowboy with the heart of gold and Master Kelly, the Irish intellectual and rebel sympathiser with a penchant for a good sing song.

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1st Produced:
The Read Company, Dublin     1996

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Seen and Heard: Six New Plays by Irish Women, ed Cathy Leeney, Carysfort Press, Dublin, 2001   

Music:
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Genre:
Play One Act

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  doubling possible

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Nation's Assets, The

Synopsis:
Part of Tiny Plays for Ireland: Fishamble, in partnership with the Irish Times, asked the Irish public what can be achieved with three minutes of stage time, what are the issues that need to be addressed, and who are the people that should be brought to life in the theatre? Fishamble received over 1,700 plays from every county in Ireland and many countries beyond. Tiny Plays for Ireland combines selected works by members of the public and dramas by some of Ireland's best loved writers to provide one dramatic picture of Ireland at the crossroads.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
fishamble

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Other Side, The

Synopsis:
Two women are held prisoner in an unidentified country, for unstated reasons. Both the characters and half the audience are sparated by a dividing wall. Dervla, an Irish woman, is searching for her identical twin sister who went missing when she was eight; Kate, an English photographer, has no memory of life before she arrived at her adopted parents' house at about he same age. As the days progress the two women learn more about each other, and begin to wonder if they have more in common than they thought.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
the Read Company, Dublin

1st Published:
-   

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Play About My Dad

Synopsis:
Life and death of Michelle Read's father

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Project Arts Centre, Dublin     02 Feb 2006

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   

Music:
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Genre:
Monologue play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Romantic Friction

Synopsis:
inspiration to write a 'proper' novel but instead she's hardly off the boat before she's met a man, fallen in love and been jilted. the play is set one night, three weeks later, when Anna wakes up in a drunken stupor to find two of the characters from her latest 'bodice ripper' large as life in her living room. the ensuing discussion with the chirpy, cockney maid servant Minnie Crabtree and the dashingly, heroic Lord Beaston, helps Anna to get her life, not to mention her plotlines, back into shape.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Read Company, Dublin     1997

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   

Music:
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Genre:
Play One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  doubling possible

Further Reference:
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