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The Arts Council Playography Na Gaeilge

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Lynne Parker

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Lynne Parker is co-founder and Artistic Director of Rough Magic Theatre Company. She was an associate artist of Charabanc Theatre Company and has worked with many other companies including the Abbey, Druid, the Almeida, the Bush, the Traverse,the Peter Hall Company, West Yorkshire Playhouse and the RSC.

Company Jobs

Job Title Company
Artistic Director Rough Magic Theatre Company

Adaptations

Play Title Playwright
The House of Bernarda Alba Lynne Parker Federico García Lorca

Director

Play Title Playwright
A Mug's Game Molière Adapted by Rough Magic Theatre Company
Boomtown Arthur Riordan Declan Hughes Pom Boyd
Car Show Various authors.
Cauterised Neill Speers
Children of the Sun Hilary Fannin Maxim Gorky
Cleft Fergal McElherron
Danti-Dan Gina Moxley
Digging For Fire Declan Hughes
Down Onto Blue Pom Boyd
Down the Line Paul Mercier
Famished Castle Hilary Fannin
Halloween Night Declan Hughes
Hidden Charges Arthur Riordan
I Can't Get Started Declan Hughes
Improbable Frequency Arthur Riordan Bell Helicopter
A musical with Book and Lyrics by Arthur Riordan, and Musical Composition and Sound Design by Bell Helicopter.
Is This About Sex? Christian O'Reilly (1)
Love and a Bottle Declan Hughes George Farquhar
Adapted from the original play by George Farquhar.
Melt Shane Mac an Bhaird
Midden Morna Regan
New Morning Declan Hughes
Our Father Edna O'Brien
Peer Gynt Arthur Riordan Henrik Ibsen

A new version with live music by Tarab
Phaedra Hilary Fannin Hilary Fannin Hilary Fannin Ellen Cranitch Ellen Cranitch Ellen Cranitch Euripides Jean Racine Jean-Philippe Rameau Euripides Jean Racine Jean-Philippe Rameau

Inspired in part by Jean Racine's 'Phèdre' (1677) and Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera 'Hippolyte et Aricie' (1733), both themselves drawn from Euripides.
Shiver Declan Hughes
Sodome, My Love Olwen Fouéré Laurent Gaudé
Solar Bones Michael West Mike McCormack
Take Me Away Gerald Murphy
Tartuffe Declan Hughes Molière
A version of Molière's original.
The Bonefire Rosemary Jenkinson
The Dogs Donal O'Kelly
The Drunkard Tom Murphy
After WH Smith and a Gentleman.
The Girl Who Forgot to Sing Badly Finegan Kruckemeyer
The House Keeper Morna Regan
The House of Bernarda Alba Lynne Parker Federico García Lorca
A version of the play by Federico Garcia Lorca.
The Shape of Metal Thomas Kilroy
The Sugar Wife Elizabeth Kuti
The Train Arthur Riordan Bill Whelan
The Trojan Women Brendan Kennelly Euripides
A version of Euripides' original play.
The Whisperers Elizabeth Kuti Frances Sheridan
Frances Sheridan's 'A Trip to Bath' as completed by Elizabeth Kuti.

Designer

Play Title Playwright
A Mug's Game Molière Adapted by Rough Magic Theatre Company
The Way the Buffalo Went Thomas McLaughlin

Set Designer

Play Title Playwright
Cleft Fergal McElherron

Artistic Director

Play Title Playwright
Improbable Frequency Arthur Riordan Bell Helicopter
A musical with Book and Lyrics by Arthur Riordan, and Musical Composition and Sound Design by Bell Helicopter.

Company Artistic Director

Play Title Playwright
Mrs. Sweeney Paula Meehan

Set

Play Title Playwright
The Woman in White Declan Hughes Wilkie Collins
Adapted from the novel by Wilkie Collins