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Arthur Riordan

ARTHUR RIORDAN

  
Nationality:    Irish
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Literary Agent:    Curtis Brown Group Ltd  

Arthur Riordan's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Boomtown: A City Comedy         Emergency Session, The         Hidden Charges         Improbable Frequency         Last Temptation of Michael Flatley, The         Love Me?         Peer Gynt         Rap Eire         Shooting Gallery, The         Slattery's Sago Saga         Train, The

Boomtown: A City Comedy

Synopsis:
Temple Bar, Dublin 1979 the street is full of punks, prostitutes, thieves and cannibals. Same street 1999 they have all turned into well dressed, well behaved people

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Meeting House Square, Dublin    06 Oct 1999

Organisations:
Rough Magic Theatre Company, Dublin. In association with Dublin Theatre Festival, Ireland

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  19            Female:  7            Other:  doubling possible

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Emergency Session, The

Synopsis:
Eamon DeValera rap cabaret apparently

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Rough Magic Theatre Company, Dublin

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical theatre Musical

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Hidden Charges

Synopsis:
Chaos reigns when Aunt Kitty a former showband girl arrives in Dublin to stay with her nephew

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Rough Magic Theatre Company, Dublin

1st Published:
in Rough Magic: First Plays, ed Siobhan Bourke, New Island Books, Dublin, 1999   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  voices

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Improbable Frequency

Synopsis:
It's 1941. Europe is at war and espionage is the front line. As the rest of the world gets on with the small matter of the Second World War, Dublin's lights burn flagrantly and Europe's intellectual elite has come to play. But suspicious messages on a radio requests-show have drawn the attention of M15 and a diffident young code-breaker is dispatched to Dublin to determine which side neutral Ireland is really on. Encounters with John Betjeman, Myles na gCopaleen and nuclear physics complicate his mission, but our hero soon realises that more is at stake than the honour of chaste local girl, Philomena O'shea. Improbable Frequency is a musical satire that lifts the lid on Ireland's beloved neutrality and cuts to the heart of the tempestuous affair with our nearest neighbour.

Notes:
Book And Lyrics by Arthur Riordan, And Musical Composition And Sound Design by Bell Helicopter.

1st Produced:
O'Reilly Theatre, Dublin    2004

Organisations:
Rough Magic Theatre Company, Dublin. In association with Dublin Theatre Festival, Ireland

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Music:
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Genre:
Musical Comedy Musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  doubling and musicians

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Last Temptation of Michael Flatley, The

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Genre:
Play One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Love Me?

Synopsis:
Car Show involves four concurrent performances, each set in a different car. An audience of three witnesses each fifteen minute performance.

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Genre:
Short Play One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Peer Gynt

Synopsis:
Peer Gynt: The boy who never grew up, the escapologist extraordinaire. Rough Magic, who stormed the Festival last year with the remarkable Phaedra, has reunited with the author of their 2004 smash-hit Improbable Frequency, with this original new take on Ibsen's epic study of delusion, self-evasion and wild imaginings. Caught between his angel and his demon, haunted by the women he loved, lost and betrayed, and catapulted through a life built on fantasy, Peer Gynt is finally forced to face himself. Fast, funny and told with Rough Magic's trademark theatrical wit, this classic tale is reimagined in a spectacular and surreal interpretation with live music from the outstanding ensemble Tarab. Truly a story for our times.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen. part of Dublin Theatre Festival. version by Arthur Riordan with music by Tarab

1st Produced:
O'Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College, Great Denmark Street, Dublin 1, Co. Dublin    30 Sep 2011

Organisations:
Rough Magic Theatre Company, Dublin

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Rap Eire

Synopsis:
A New York rapper and an Irish spin doctor meet

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Limerick: Belltable Arts Centre, Ireland, Eur    Feb 2001

Organisations:
Bickerstaffe

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical theatre Musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  doubling possible

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Shooting Gallery, The

Synopsis:
tells the story of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin from the perspective of two opium addicts in the then-suburban area of Rathmines.
Karen Fricker, the Guardian

Notes:
written by Arthur Riordan And Des Bishop

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Bedrock

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Slattery's Sago Saga

Synopsis:
Slattery's Sago Saga is the tale of Tim Hartigan, whose quiet life as the dogsbody of Poguemahone Hall is shattered by the arrival of a Scotch woman with an evil plan. Confusion awaits in the shape of a politically-correct Leprechaun, a beautiful typist and a tycoon T.D. bent on bankrupting the country. . .One part carnival, one part surreal satire, this comic masterpiece - nominated for three awards at the 2010 Irish Times Irish theatre Awards - is catapulted with surrealist energy into modern-day Ireland.

Notes:
Based on the unfinished novel by Flann O'Brien

1st Produced:
Rathfarnham Castle    17 Jul 2010

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Train, The

Synopsis:
Ireland, 1971: the church and the state are in glorious - and very close - harmony. They are also deaf to the voices of women, who are routinely paid less than men, in jobs they must often give up once they marry, at which time they become, by law, their husbands' property. . .And they have another cause for concern. While contraceptives are available in Northern Ireland, they are illegal in the Republic. Determined to challenge the unbending laws of Ireland, a troublesome group of women decide to take a train to Belfast and return to Dublin with this forbidden fruit. It tells the story of the infamous contraceptive train, of a nation's obsession with sex, and of a small group of courageous women whose short journey marked the beginning of a modern odyssey.

Notes:
music by Bill Whelan, book and lyrics by Arthur Riordan

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Rough Magic Theatre Company, Dublin as part of The Dublin Festival

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
musical

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  6            Other:  -

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