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Stewart Roche

STEWART ROCHE

  
Nationality:    Irish
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Stewart Roche trained at the Gaiety School of Acting. He is the artistic director of PurpleHeart Theatre Company. Stewart's first play The Devil's Kiss received a rehearsed reading as part of The New Theatre's new writing week in November 2012. His second play Curious Tales for Christmas had its world premiere at Theatre Upstairs@Lannigans in December 2012 and has recently been published. His adaptation of Stoker's short story The Judge's House has just finished a very successful run in Bewley's Cafe Theatre. RevenANT had it's world premiere in the New Theatre in November 2013. His latest play Tracer will participate in Fishamble's New Play Clinic in 2014.

Research:    http://www.irishplayography.com/person.aspx?personid=1178

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

         Curious Tales for Christmas         Judge's House, The         Revenant         Tracer         Variance

Curious Tales for Christmas

Curious Tales for Christmas
Thrilling. . .disturbing. . .uncanny. . .Curious Tales for Christmas never takes itself too seriously and yet it pays due respect to the Victorian material. This makes it a perfect antidote to the pantomime for older children and their parents. The Irish Times

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1st Produced:
Theatre Upstairs@Lannigans, Dublin    Dec 2012

Organisations:
PurpleHeart

1st Published:
Black Box Theatre Publishing Company (October 22, 2013)   978-0615901862

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy/Horror

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Judge's House, The

Synopsis:
He was a notorious hanging Judge. Dozens made the drop because of him, some for the most trivial of crimes and others on the most flimsy of evidence. Forced against his better judgement to adapt "The Picture of Dorian Gray" into a movie set in Celtic Tiger Dublin, troubled screenwriter Malcolm is dispatched to an isolated village in West Cork under orders to meet the deadline. Does he stay in the local Blue Book recommended guesthouse, where the cook knocks up a splendid full Irish and a late check-out is free of charge? Of course he doesn't. He stays in the infamous Judge's House, where he encounters an infestation of rats, several books by Fintan O'Toole and a portrait seemingly with a mind of its own. . . Spine-tingling, knowing and very very funny, THE JUDGE's HOUSE is ideal Halloween entertainment from one of Ireland's great horror writers (Stoker that is, not Roche, although he does show some promise. . .)

Notes:
a modern and slightly controversial adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Revenant

Synopsis:
Carter has found the perfect location to shoot his zombie movie set during the famine - a country house on an island off the coast of Mayo. The only catch is he has it for just 3 days. So when his lead actor drops out the day before shooting starts, Carter is faced with a dilEmma - pull the plug on his dream project or cast the mysterious Vardell, an actor of incendiary talent but with a dark past that Carter knows precious little about. As events unfold on the set, Carter soon suspects that he may have made a grave mistake. . .

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'Roche's script is a spikenard of playful savagery along with a wealth of sardonic wit. . ..blending the spine-tingling shiver with the knowing smile. . .genuinely chilling. . .Irish Independent

1st Produced:
The New Theatre, Dublin    18 Nov 2013

Organisations:
PurpleHeart

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy/Horror one act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=4024

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Tracer

Synopsis:
In this dark comedy, a young documentary film maker, forced to take a part time job in a Dublin research company, soon discovers that the business has come up with a unique and dangerous solution to help ride out the recession. . .Funny, dark and unsettling, "Tracer" is a timely reminder of how far some people are willing to go in order to survive.

Notes:
4 stars. . .an old fashioned suspense thriller laced with black humour with hints of 1984 and Marathon Man. . .an excellent comic script...' The Mail on Sunday

1st Produced:
The New Theatre, Dublin    25 Aug 2014

Organisations:
PurpleHeart

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Black Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Variance

Synopsis:
Jennifer has her hands full with a husband, two kids and every soccer mom's general anxieties. Between school runs, diapers and her perky rival in number 14, life is comfortably dull but all of that is about to change... decadence, destruction and deviance. VARIANCE is the change you won't see coming...

Notes:
"VARIANCE is a tale which tears the heart out of the everyday and seeks to peel away the layers of society to reveal what lies beneath. Sharp, fast paced and unrelenting&Roche's script drags us into a world that is as vicious as it is well constructed." Meg.ie

1st Produced:
TheatreUpstairs, Dublin    20 May 2014

Organisations:
Timador Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Drama one act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=4117

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