Nick Hern Books, 2004

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

...Conor McPherson's Come On Over is a short play for two characters that was first performed at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, on 27 September 2001. Matthew, a Jesuit priest sent to investigate a ‘miracle’ in his hometown...

Nick Hern Books, 2000

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

...Conor McPherson's Dublin Carol is a play about an ageing alcoholic who is forced to confront the failures of his past. It was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, London, on 7 January 2000. It’s Christmas...

Nick Hern Books, 2017

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (13), Female (5), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...Girl from the North Country is a play by Conor McPherson with music and lyrics by Bob Dylan. It was first performed at The Old Vic, London, on 8 July 2017, transferring to the Noel Coward Theatre in the West End on 29 December 2017...

Nick Hern Books, 2005

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Scenes: 15, Roles: Total (3), Female (0), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Conor McPherson's Port Authority is a play about big dreams and lost opportunities, told through three interweaving monologues. It was first performed in a production by the Gate Theatre, Dublin, at the New Ambassadors Theatre, London...

Nick Hern Books, 2011

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Acts: 1, Scenes: 1

...Conor McPherson's short monologue play Rum and Vodka was first performed at University College Dublin on 27 November1992. One of McPherson's earliest stage works, it was written and performed just after he formed Fly By Night Theatre...

Nick Hern Books, 2004

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Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (4), Female (1), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Conor McPherson's Shining City is a play about two men haunted in quite different ways. It was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 4 June 2004. Ian has left the priesthood and is starting a new career...

Nick Hern Books, 2011

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

...Conor McPherson's St Nicholas is a monologue play written while McPherson was attached to the Bush Theatre, London, under the Pearson Television Theatre Writers’ Scheme. It was first performed at the Bush Theatre on 19 February 1997...

Nick Hern Books, 2013

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Scenes: 16, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Conor McPherson's The Birds is a loose adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1952 short story. It was first performed at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, on 29 September 2009. Mysterious flocks of birds have begun to attack at high...

Nick Hern Books, 2013

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

...Conor McPherson's adaptation of August Strindberg’s 1900 play The Dance of Death, about a titanic battle of wills between a husband and wife, was first performed at the Trafalgar Studios, London, on 13 December 2012...

Nick Hern Books, 2011

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...Conor McPherson's The Good Thief is a monologue play that recounts the misfortunes of an unnamed petty criminal whose conscience punishes him when he becomes involved in a bungled kidnap. The play was first performed under...

Nick Hern Books, 2016

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 18, Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...The Nest is a translation by Conor McPherson of Franz Xaver Kroetz's 1975 play, Das Nest, about a young couple expecting a baby, and the moral and environmental cost of their materialistic nesting instincts. The Nest was first performed...

Nick Hern Books, 2013

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

...Conor McPherson's The Night Alive is a play about the small lives of a group of down-and-outers in Dublin. It was first performed at the Donmar Warehouse, London, on 19 June 2013 (previews from 13 June). Tommy...

Nick Hern Books, 2006

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

...Conor McPherson's The Seafarer is a play about a group of drinking buddies whose extended Christmas Eve card game is played for the highest stakes possible. It was first performed at the National Theatre, London, in the Cottesloe...

Nick Hern Books, 2011

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (8), Female (5), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Conor McPherson's The Veil is a haunted house drama set in a decaying Irish country house in the 1820s. It is McPherson's first period-set play. The Veil was first performed in the Lyttelton auditorium of the National Theatre, London, on 4...

Nick Hern Books, 2000

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

...Conor McPherson's The Weir is a play set in rural Ireland, combining tales of the supernatural with closely observed dramatic naturalism. It was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs at the Ambassadors Theatre on West Street...

Nick Hern Books, 2011

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

...Conor McPherson's This Lime Tree Bower is a play for three male performers, told in interlocking monologues. It was first performed as an Íomhá Ildánach/Fly by Night co-production at the Crypt Arts Centre, Dublin, on 26 September 1995...