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Colin Teevan

COLIN TEEVAN

  
Nationality:    Irish
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Literary Agent:    Curtis Brown Group Ltd  

Colin Teevan was born in Dublin and studied at the University of Edinburgh. Colin Teevan is a celebrated playwright, translator and writer for screen. His work has been produced by many leading Theatres including the National, the Young Vic, the Soho Theatre and the National Theatre of Scotland. Colin's 2009 play, the Lion of Kabul, was produced as part of the Tricycle Theatre's Great Game festival on Afghanistan and was hailed as 'an inspirational highlight of the year' by the Independent. In the same year, he adapted FrANZ Kafka's Report to An Academy for the Young Vic, where it appeared as the critically-acclaimed play, Kafka's Monkey, as well as reviving the National Theatre of Scotland's production of his new version of Peer Gynt at the Barbican and, subsequently, on tour. In 2010 Kafka's Monkey was revived by the Young Vic at the Bouffes du Nord Theatre in Paris and the Great Game was revived by the Tricycle for an American tour. In 2011 Colin wrote an episode of the ITV Drama Vera starring Brenda Blethyn and a two-part episode of ITV/RTE crime Drama Single Handed. Colin was commissioned to write an original play there Was A Man, there Was No Man for the Tricycle as part of their 2012 season of plays entitled 'the Bomb'.

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         Alcmaeon In Corinth         Amazonia         Arse         Bacchai         Bee, The         Big Sea, The         Buffalo Bill Has Gone To Alaska         Chain Play, The         Crack and the Whip, The         Cuckoos         Diver, The         Doctor Faustus         Don Quixote         Emperor, The         Here Come Cowboys         How Many Miles To Basra?         Iph. . .         Kafka's Monkey         Kingdom, The         Lion Of Kabul, The         Marathon         Missing Persons - Four Tragedies and Roy Keane         Monkey!         Peer Gynt         Playlist: Festival Edition         Seven Pomegranate Seeds, The         Svejk         Tantalus         there Was A Man. there Was No Man         University, The         Vinegar and Brown Paper         Walls, The
Alcmaeon In Corinth

Alcmaeon In Corinth
Based on 20 previously untranslated fragments, this is a reconstruction of Euripides lost tragic comedy, Alcmaeon in Corinth, the third part of his final trilogy, with Bacchai and Iphigeneia in Aulis. Alcmaeon, having killed his mother, is pursued by the furies, his madness taking the form of satyriasis. When he unwittingly finds himself in bed with his daughter, he must face his children's fury.

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1st Produced:
Academy At Live Theatre, Newcastle     2004

Organisations:
Eleanor Lloyd and Critical Mass

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Amazonia

Amazonia
the village of Todos Os Santos is under threat from developers who want to clear the village and the forest for farmland. Meanwhile, the village bull won't dance the traditional bumba meu boi and the pregnant Catarina has developed a taste for impossible foods that her husband Francisco must get for her. Can the spirits of the forest help our heroes save their environment, their way of life, and themselves? Fantasy and reality dance through this spectacular Amazonian adventure, inspired by the life and politics of Brazilian folk hero Chico Mendes.

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By Colin Teevan And Paul Heritage

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Arse

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Part of Playlist. Nine new plays by: Danny Kanaber, Tom Morton Smith, Hannah Mulder, Ben Ockrent, Sian Owen, Lola Stephenson, Colin Teevan, Jack Thorne And Rosalind Wyllie. the Festival edition of theatre503's regular sell-out event. Inspired by the music of Artists playing At Latitude, we present nine new plays by A selection of established, emerging And As yet undiscovered writers. the perfect theatrical mixtape: Some writers you know, some you don't, but All writers you'll end up loving. Playful, poignant, or A puzzle to be solved, the only rule is that each play is no longer than the piece of music that inspired it. A feast of fearless new writing in beautiful, bite-size chunks.

1st Produced:
Latitude Festival     18 Jul 2010

Organisations:
Theatre 503

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short play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Bacchai

Bacchai
Dionysos, the God of wine and theatre has returned to his native land to take revenge on the puritanical Pentheus who refuses to recognise him of his rites. Remorselessly, savagely and with black humour, the God drives Pentheus and all the city to their shocking fate.limelight after decades of anonymity.

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Original Playwright - Euripides

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Organisations:
National Theatre, London

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Adaptation

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Male:  15            Female:  8            Other:  doubling possible

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Bee, The

Bee, The
What would you do if your wife and child were being held hostage? It seems that the only option for Mr Ido is to accept his terrible fate. Besieged by cameras and reporters, the world is demanding to know how he feels. But as his personal tragedy is played out on screen, Ido decides to take control. Refusing to play the victim he seeks out a bitter revenge. A highly-charged, tragic satire, the Bee asks what happens when the victim becomes the aggressor, the weak become powerful and the watcher becomes the watched. Legendary in Japan, Hideki Noda directed the first Opera in the country's New National theatre and has garnered outstanding acclaim for his mould-breaking interpretations of Kabuki classics. His fascination with the similarities and disparities between Japanese and British culture has led him to work with key figures in British theatre. For the Bee, he has collaborated with writer, Colin Teevan, well known for his innovative translations and adaptations of world classics and the hugely revered, Olivier winning British actress, Kathryn Hunter. Cast: Tony Bell, Kathryn Hunter, Hideki Noda, Glyn Pritchard

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Written by Hideki Noda And Colin Teevan. Based on the story Mushiriai by Yasutaka Tsutsui

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Noda Map

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Adaptation

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Big Sea, The

Big Sea, The
the Big Sea is based on the French Medieval Mardi Gras play Le Bataille de Charnau contre Caresme. Christophe, Caresme and Charnau are on a cancer ward. To pass the time they play games. the line between game and reality starts to blur and soon they find themselves on a journey into the unknown: Columbus's journey to the New World

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1st Produced:
Abymill Theatre     1990

Organisations:
Galloglass Theatre Company

1st Published:
published in French as 'Le Grand Large'. maison-antoine-vitez@wanadoo.fr also Oberon Books, London >>>, 1996   

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Buffalo Bill Has Gone To Alaska

Synopsis:
A play about power and greed set in a seedy, mythical New York which is inhabited by a tramp lady, a news boy, a stripper and a private eye. the play intertwines the history of a dark century with the twists and turns of a Film Noir.

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Organisations:
Pigsback Theatre Company (fishamble)

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Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  doubling possible

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http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=53

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Chain Play, The

Synopsis:
One off performance of chain writing to celebrate the National theatre's 25th anniversary. A scene each from all the authors for a performance on one night

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Conceived and commissioned by Angus Mackenchnie

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Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Crack and the Whip, The

Synopsis:
A comic story of low standards in high places. Shem MacMor is the wastrel son of the dying Mayor and local T.D. the Bren O'Donoghue, County Secretary and Corkman, has plans for young Shem. In Mrs Quigley's bar, with debauched Uncle Jack and streetwise O'Nion, the conspiracy begins. But Doxy the barmaid has plans of her own.

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1st Produced:
White Memorial Theatre, Clonmel, Ireland     1997

Organisations:
Galloglass Theatre Company

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Music:
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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Cuckoos

Cuckoos
A younger man and older woman are discovered in the improbable dilEmma of being stuck together during anal sex and call in his gynaecologist Father to help remove tab A from slot B. the two older people recognise each other, leading, after a few fresh twists and turns, to the inevitable evocation of Oedipus and, in a sudden shift of mode characteristic of Manfridi, a bloody conclusion

Notes:
Original Playwright - Guiseppe Manfridi

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Organisations:
RNT Studio

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Music:
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Diver, The

Diver, The
weaves together the Tale of Genji and associated Noh Dramas with a contemporary Japanese murder case.

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written By Colin Teevan And Hideki Noda

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Organisations:
Setagaya Public Theatre

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Music:
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Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus
Faustus's restless quest for knowledge and his insatiable desire for notoriety drive him to make a pact with the devil in return for the power to perform the black Arts. the life-changing decision propels him into a heady, celebrity-obsessed world, as magician and illusionist to the rich and famous. Quenching sexual desires as his power grows, he must question whether the price was worth paying. This new adaptation combines Marlowe's original acts with a re-imagining by Colin Teevan. Firmly placing this classic story within a present context, the universal truths held in the 400-year-old cautionary tale resonate powerfully with the greed of today's consumer-led society.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Christopher Marlowe

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Organisations:
West Yorkshire Playhouse and Citizens Theatre

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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  extras

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Don Quixote

Don Quixote
Follow the Dramatic tale of the ingenious gentleman of La Mancha, Don Quixote and his comic adventures over land, sea and air in the search for an idealised world. Accompanied by his loyal sidekick, Sancho Panza, and inspired by stories of daring deeds, Don Quixote sets out to recreate an imaginary world and to convince his family, friends, and all he meets of its reality. But this is no ordinary journey as he gallops through seventeenth century Spain encountering a host of fantastical characters including star-crossed lovers, an army of giants, a cross-dressing priest, a royal duchess and even the devil himself.

Notes:
from novel by Miguel de Cervantes Adapted by Colin Teevan And Pablo Ley

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Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  extras

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Emperor, The

Emperor, The
The Emperor tells the story of the downfall of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia and with it the end of a three thousand- year-old monarchy that traced its origins back to King Solomon. Based on the extraordinary book by legendary Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, it is told from the unique perspective of the Emperor's former servants, courtiers and ministers. It is a powerful exploration of the nature of power and loyalty

Notes:
adapted from book by Ryszard Kapuscinski

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Here Come Cowboys

Synopsis:
Here Comes Cowboys is set in the larger than life world of clowns, where cruelty and comedy are mirror images of each other. In the course of the play generations and mythologies collide, cinema takes on literature, Jesse James confronts Oisin, and Yeats and Joyce joust with True Grit. Here Come Cowboys looks at the games young people play. It explores how young people exploit each other and how they can pick on the weakest. It examines peer pressure, isolation, and the real fears that young people have concerning the savage games that they play.

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1st Produced:
Tour Of Schools     1992

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Genre:
for post-primary school students

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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How Many Miles To Basra?

How Many Miles To Basra?
Southern Iraq, April 2003: four British soldiers, a BBC reporter and their Iraqui translator embark on an unauthorised mission deep into the war-torn country's desert in a disastrous attempt to make amends for the death of three Bedouin at a checkpoint. Developed from Teevan's highly acclaimed BBC Radio 3 play, How Many Miles to Basra? is a superb examination of how definitions of truth and responsibility become blurred in times of war - not just in the armed forces and political arena, but in the media too.

Notes:
Developed from Teevan's highly Acclaimed BBC Radio 3 play, How Many Miles to Basra? is A superb examination of how definitions of truth And responsibility become blurred in times of war - not just in the Armed forces And political Arena, but in the media too.

1st Produced:
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds     2006

Organisations:
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Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Iph. . .

Iph. . .
the Greeks and Trojans are on the brink of war. Agamemnon, leader of the Greeks, has a stark choice: whether to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia as the gods demand, or place the safety of his family before the interests of the state. Iphigeneia must choose whether to die willingly at her father's hand to ensure her nation's freedom.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Euripides

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Organisations:
Lyric Theatre

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Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  chorus of young people

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Kafka's Monkey

Kafka's Monkey
"Esteemed members of the Academy! You have done me the great honour of inviting me to give you an account of my former life as an ape." Imprisoned in a cage and desperate to escape, Kafka's monkey reveals his journey to become a walking, talking, spitting, smoking, hard-drinking man of the stage.

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Based on the short story A Report to An Academy by Franz Kafka

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Kingdom, The

Kingdom, The
Three Irishmen. Digging. Telling tales to put down the day. But as they dig down, long buried secrets begin to emerge and the story they tell is as dark as the earth itself. It's a tale full of rich and striking characters. the Kingdom vividly captures life as an Irish navvy in the last century  a time of immigration, violence, sex, triumph and, ultimately, tragedy. Rooted in the Dramas of ancient Greece 'the Kingdom' is Colin Teevan's haunting and lyrical new play and his first collaboration with award winning director Lucy Pitman-Wallace.

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Organisations:
Three legged Theatre Company

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Music:
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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Lion Of Kabul, The

Lion Of Kabul, The
Following a brief but timely duologue in which the mural at the start is painted over by the Taliban, Colin Teevan achieves something quite special in showing us the absurdity of those Taliban fundamentalists, never quite tipping over the edge into the unbelievable. This play centres on the verbal duel between Lolita Chakrabarti's Rabia, a lapsed Muslim UN aid worker, and Khan, a minor Government official and Mullah. He ironically works for a Justice Department that has no interest in pursuing its titular role. Two aid workers have gone missing after taking a truck of food to the people. their boss seeks information and for reasons that become all too apparent has been asked to attend a meeting at the zoo. Nabil Elouahabi makes a wonderful job of presenting a man so keen on his cause that he seems inhuman, while his protagonist shows the depths of humanity that have disappeared from the country under such a Government. .
- British theatre Guide

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part of A three month long festival About the culture And history of Afghanistan. Entitled the Great Game: Afghanistan. the festival will be divided into three parts, each focusing on A period of Afghan history: 1979 - 1996 : Communism, the Mujahideen And the Taliban

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Genre:
Historical

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Marathon

Marathon
Night-time. A country lane. Two men training run into their past and into their future. A beautifully simple exploration of what it means to be alive.

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Original Playwright - Eduardo Erba

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Genre:
Translation

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Missing Persons - Four Tragedies and Roy Keane

Missing Persons - Four Tragedies and Roy Keane
A Father denied access to his children, a footballer deserting his team, a terrorist lost in the politics of peacetime. Five monologues in the voices of contemporary men, inspired by the heroes and heroines of classical myths.

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Monologues Play/Drama

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Monkey!

Monkey!
Very loosely based upon the writings of the great Chinese author Wu Ch'eng-en. the tale of the roguish Monkey and his exploits on a fabulous journey to India is one of the most popular classics in Asian literature. Monkey has been imprisoned in a mountain because of the chaos he has wrought in heaven. To be redeemed, he must guide the Buddhist monk Tripitaka from China, through the Himalayas, on a mystical quest in search of sacred scriptures. Helped by two friends, Pigsy and Sandy, he encounters demons, spirits, dragons and gods on a riotous road trip to enlightenment. With its mix of energetic kung-fu action, mischievous hero and cast of fantastically colourful characters Monkey is sure to leave audiences as thrilled and delighted as last year's sell-out success the Three Musketeers. Monkey is an adventure to enchant everyone aged seven and above

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Play/Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  doubling, extras

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Peer Gynt

Peer Gynt
Peer Gynt is a dreamer, a liar and a serial womaniser. Cast out from his hometown, Peer embarks on a wild and astonishing journey in search of fame and fortune that takes him from Norway to Africa and eventually back home again. An exhiliarating tale of a life lived on the edge.

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Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

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Dundee Rep Ensemble and National Theatre of Scotland

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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Playlist: Festival Edition

Synopsis:
The Festival edition of Theatre503's regular sell-out event. Inspired by the music of artists playing at Latitude, we present nine new plays by a selection of established, emerging and as yet undiscovered writers. The perfect theatrical mix-tape: some writers you know, some you don't, but all writers you'll end up loving. Playful, poignant, or a puzzle to be solved, the only rule is that each play is no longer than the piece of music that inspired it. A feast of fearless new writing in beautiful, bite-size chunks. The plays are:At the Candy Shop/Foreground/Geese of Berverley Road/I'm Thinking I Was Wrong/Waiting for the Heartaches/A Hundred Years or More/Been Up All Night/Arse/The Other Side of the Fence

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Seven Pomegranate Seeds, The

Seven Pomegranate Seeds, The
The Seven Pomegranate Seeds are seven contemporary monologues for female speakers, thematically linked and with powerful mythical origins. Loosely based on seven of Euripides' female characters - Medea, Phedra, Demeter, Persephone, Hypsipyle, Creusa and Alcestis - these monologues explore classical mother and child stories in the context of modern Britain. With the tale of an abducted child echoing throughout and reflecting cases such as the Moors Murders, Madeline McCann and Louise Woodward, these individual monologues come together in a compelling conclusion.

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Organisations:
Onassis Foundation

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Svejk

Svejk
Since Hasek's comic masterpiece was first produced in 1920s Prague, there have been countless attempts to stage this sprawling story of the seeming idiot, svejk, who survives the horrors of the First World War by undermining the institutions of state and army through his very idiocy. limelight after decades of anonymity.

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Based on "the Good Soldier Svejk" by Jaroslav Hasek

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Tantalus

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there Was A Man. there Was No Man

there Was A Man. there Was No Man
While Israel officially has no nuclear arms programme, few doubt it has; Iran claims this gives it the right to develop its own nuclear programme. Who will be the first to blink? When an Israeli and Iranian scientist meet at a conference in Jordan, their meeting has deep repercussions for their nations, their families and themselves.

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Part of the Bomb  A partial history. SECOND BLAST: Present Dangers

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short play

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University, The

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Vinegar and Brown Paper

Vinegar and Brown Paper
In Vinegar and Brown Paper Jill is an artist recently returned to Dublin and Jack is her stand-up comedian boyfriend. As Jill tries to reconcile herself to her past through her work, Jack's career starts to take off. the play charts the collapse of a relationship through soap operas, football, the Dutch Masters and Christ's walk to Calvary

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Black Comedy One Act

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Walls, The

Walls, The
Dublin. the night before Christmas and Mrs and Mrs Walls are preparing for the arrival of their son Joseph and his new bride, Mary, from London. "George Bernard Shaw wrote: I have not yet found real homes except in very stupid families to whom a house is a world.' the tragedy was when, as in his own family - or Stella's in the Walls - intelligent people attempt to make a house their world. Shaw turned his own childhood tragedy into comedy but the comedy retained - as does Colin Teevan's - sharp pathos of emotions and ambitions thwarted and lonely lives unfulfilled" (Clare Boylan)limelight after decades of anonymity.

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Springboards SEason

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