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Makes Pentheus the swaggering, tyrannical leader of US forces in Iraq.The argument is skewed irrevocably in the favour of Dionysusplayed as a Middle East-accented, dreadlocked hottie whose powers manifest in his ability to make the Bacchants whirl like dervishes to a groovy world music beat as flames shoot out of the urn containing his mother's ashes.
Karen Fricker, The Guardian

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Original Playwright - Euripides

1st Produced:

Abbey Theatre, Dublin    2006

Organisations:

Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Ireland

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Adaptation

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Ghosts

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Ibsen's drama of sin and sexuality is transported to an Ards Peninsula full of twisted inbred energy and choked with secrets and scandals.

When the last member of his family dies, he returns to Belfast; there he finds himself up in the family attic, free-falling through memories of a life filled with loathing, violence and deviance.
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1st Produced:

Cleere's Theatre, Kilkenny    1995

Organisations:

Bickerstaffe

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in Far From The Land, ed John Fairleigh, Methuen, London, 1998   -

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Rough Justice

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England    -

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Tarry Flynn

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Set in Cavan in the 1930s, Tarry Flynn tells the story of Tarry, a farmer poet, and his quest for big fields, young women and the meaning of life.

‘It kind of is. But Conall Morrison, director of the Lyric production, believes that Playboy still packs a mighty punch for contemporary audiences, not least because so many of the play’s themes remain sharply relevant.

[Quotes Morrison:] ‘Love, sex, revenge, the raging passions of violence and desire [...] All the energies in Playboy are so extreme, so remarkably overt.

On the panel were Louis Lentin, Stephanie McBride, Susan McKay.’ (UUC, 2003.)

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Hard to Believe, commissioned by Bickerstaffe (Andrews Lane 1995) is a play in the form of an 80-min. It’s beyond good and evil.

Do we question motive or context? How the organised forces of society were trying to repress sexuality, or the imagination, or individuality. The sex and the violence are real, but they also function as metaphors for the whole mechanism of self-expression. Importance of Being Earnest (Pittsburg/PICT, Aug. 2011); also dir.

This production, from Dublin ’s Storytellers Theatre Company, seems to signal - despite the current interest in political theatre as the verbatim reworking of recent events - that drama as a fusion of oral myth-making and private confession still has work to do.’ (p.19; for full text, see infra.)

Paterick Lonergan, ‘Queering Shakespeare at the Abbey: Wayne Jordan’s Twelfth Night, Scenes from the Bigger Picture [Wordpress blog] (3 May 2014) incls.

remark - ‘[...] Conall Morrison in 1999 gave us a Tempest that marked both the end of Patrick Mason’s tenure at the Abbey and the beginning of the Peace Process.’ (Available online; accessed 07.07.2014.)

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Terry Blain, on Morrison’s production of The Playboy of the Western World, by J.

M. Synge, at the Lyric Th., Belfast (Aug. In 1883, the Reverend Webster takes the Strangford ferry across to the Irving Estate and to the woman he has refused to visit for 20 years. Foster has, rather, embraced an unbiased hatred for both “houses” and joined what some see as a third party to the conflict, only for it all to end in self-loathing.

It’s a cruel satire on conservatism with a small ‘c’, on piety, on conformism, anything we find ourselves supine to.’

[On planning his new production:] ‘You go through all the usual nonsense,’ he comments self-deprecatingly. It is a society obsessed with its ghosts.
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Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:

Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Ireland    2003

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Genre:

Adaptation

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Green

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Green, Orange And Pink

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1st Produced:

England    -

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Hard To Believe

Synopsis:

John Foster is a professional cynic and arch political manipulator.

Significantly, Michael Longley’s poem “Ceasefire” is reprinted in the play’s programme notes. But the more you talk about it the more the play speaks back to you and says “No, you don’t need to do that. In the original, the Theban leader Pentheus and the vengeance-seeking half-god Dionysus are cousins who each have some rightful claim on the city.

monologue in which John Foster, a dirty-tricks agent for British Army Intelligence in Northern Ireland [“tout”] invokes his Protestant preacher grandfather and his turncoat father who married a Catholic and denied his background.

Antigone: Morrison’s version of Sophocles’ Antigone, set in the Middle East today (2003), shows images of the conflict in Palestine on a megascreen at back-of-stage.

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