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short play name??

  • 05-01-2012 2:35pm
    #1
    podgec10
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    I was in a short play when I was in secondary school. There was three people in it. 2 x male and 1 x female.

    It is set in a pub, one man is the bar man and the other is a stranger to town, they fight for the love of the bar maid. It started with a strange, 'Is this the house next door?' dialogue between the two men. I can't remember much more of it now to be honest.

    If someone knows the name of this and where i could get a copy of the script I would really appreciate it. I meant to keep it but it got lost during a couple of house moves.


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  • #2
    chasmcb
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    Can you remember if it was an Irish play?


  • #3
    podgec10
    Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭podgec10


    It was set in rural Ireland.


  • #4
    inisboffin
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    Here's a shortlist on Irishplayography.com - using one act, and 2 male/1 female.

    If the link expires you can do a search yourself


  • #5
    wilkie2006
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    Could your teachers have adapted the opening to "The Playboy of the Western World"?


  • #6
    Jellybaby1
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    This is driving me mad. It reminds me of a play I saw in the Gate a couple of years ago but I just can't remember the title.


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  • #7
    spurious
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    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    This is driving me mad. It reminds me of a play I saw in the Gate a couple of years ago but I just can't remember the title.
    That reminds me of 'Poor Beast in the Rain' by Billy Roche which I saw in the Gate.
    I think it had more than three in it, but maybe the OP used a scene or two.


  • #8
    delbertgrady
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    Sounds very like it might be a truncated version of The Weir by Conor McPherson. In the play, there are two more male characters, but it may have been restructured for a school production. It's set in a rural Irish pub. The girl in it (the only female cast member) is from Dublin, but is renting a house in the area.

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  • #9
    Jellybaby1
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    delbertgrady wrote: »
    Sounds very like it might be a truncated version of The Weir by Conor McPherson. In the play, there are two more male characters, but it may have been restructured for a school production. It's set in a rural Irish pub. The girl in it (the only female cast member) is from Dublin, but is renting a house in the area.

    Thank you! That's the very one I was trying to remember, I wonder if it's the one the OP was thinking of?


  • #10
    podgec10
    Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭podgec10


    I will check out 'Poor Beast', its on by a drama group nearby soon. I will check 'The Weir' as well.

    If I fInd either to be correct, I'll post it.

    Thanks.


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