Faber & Faber, 2023

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (9), Female (1), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...In a major new play, Owen McCafferty examines the negotiations leading up to the Good Friday Agreement and weaves potent drama out of this complex, momentous, landmark event...

Nick Hern Books, 2008

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Roles: Total (11), Female (3), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...Owen McCafferty's version of Sophocles’ Antigone is a muscular take on the ancient Greek tragedy that offers a reflection on the nature of power, democracy and human rights. It was first performed by Prime Cut Productions at the Waterfront...

Faber & Faber, 2016

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (5), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Beach is an adaptation of Slave Island by Pierre de Marivaux...

Nick Hern Books, 2002

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Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Owen McCafferty's Closing Time is a tender portrait of love, dignity and emotional damage set in a Belfast pub. It was first performed at the National Theatre, London, on 9 September 2002. Performances took place in the Lyttelton Loft...

Nick Hern Books, 2004

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Roles: Total (1), Female (0), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Owen McCafferty’s short play Cold Comfort is a monologue about a man returning to his native Belfast for his father's funeral. It was first performed by Prime Cut Productions Theatre Company at the Old Museum Arts Centre in Belfast in May...

Nick Hern Books, 2009

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Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Owen McCafferty's Days of Wine and Roses is a free adaptation of JP Miller's screenplay of the same name for a 1962 film directed by Blake Edwards. (Miller adapted the screenplay from his earlier teleplay for a 1958 episode of US television...

Faber and Faber, 2015

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (3), Female (1), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Steve Johnston, guided and inspired by his girlfriend, is a small-time comedian, raw, original and true. Until he's spotted by an agent, who suggests he could be so much more: his act just needs to change. It's a Faustian pact. As tension...

Faber and Faber, 2017

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Twenty years on from the Belfast Peace Agreement, Tom and Maggie are enjoying a glass of wine or two on Gerry and Rosemary’s deck, waiting for the Eleventh Night bonfire to be lit in the estate below. But there is tension in the air...

Nick Hern Books, 2002

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...An early short monologue play from Northern Irish writer Owen McCafferty. It’s four o’clock in the morning and middle-aged Gus McMahon can’t sleep. He’s drinking a can of Guinness and begins a rambling monologue to his...

Nick Hern Books, 2002

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Roles: Total (2), Female (0), Male (0), Unassigned (2)

...Owen McCafferty’s play Mojo Mickybo is about a friendship between two boys growing up in Belfast – in the summer of 1970 – a friendship that at first is immune to the sectarian violence taking place around them, but which nonetheless...

Faber and Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (3), Female (0), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Northern Ireland are playing Poland on the TV. Jimmy and Ian, two middle-aged Belfast men, are meeting tonight for the first time. They have a shared past. They need to talk. A powerful story about violence...

Nick Hern Books, 2003

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 41, Roles: Total (21), Female (7), Male (14), Unassigned (0)

...Owen McCafferty's play Scenes from the Big Picture is a panoramic portrait of contemporary Belfast with a multi-stranded narrative featuring over twenty characters. The play's action, although depicted on a large dramatic canvas, explores...

Nick Hern Books, 2003

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Roles: Total (4), Female (0), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Owen McCafferty’s Shoot the Crow is a play about four Belfast tilers who come up with a scam to make some fast money. It was premiered by Druid Theatre Company at the Druid Lane Theatre, Galway, Ireland, on 26 February 1997...

Faber and Faber, 2010

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (4), Female (1), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...- he hadn't forgotten i was there - he just didn't care whether i was there or not - it would've been better him forgetting rather than not caring at all Gerry and Iggy face the ends of their lives...

Nick Hern Books, 2002

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...The Waiting List is one of Owen McCafferty’s early monologue plays in which an unnamed male narrator frets that his name may be included on a paramilitary hit list. Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, our Catholic...

Faber and Faber, 2012

Faber Drama

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (15), Female (1), Male (14), Unassigned (0)

...At 11.40pm on 14 April 1912, the RMS Titanic, on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, struck an iceberg. At 2.20am the following morning, the ship sank. 1,517 people died. In response to the disaster the British...

Faber and Faber, 2014

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Joan and Tom have been married for nearly thirty years. Tara lies alone while Peter works nights. How far will people go to hear their heart beat again? What does it mean to be unfaithful to those you love? A stark...