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Played 5th - 16th April, 2005
Written & Directed by John
Breen
Produced by Chae Lian & Richard Harding Gardner
Staged in The Actors Studio @ Bangsar Shopping Centre |
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 JOHN BREEN. John first became involved in theatre while studying psychology
in University College Dublin. He trained under The Abbey Theatre's
Directors' scheme and went on to receive an Arts Council bursary
which enabled him to join the Open House Theatre Project set up
by acclaimed theatre director Andy Hinds to offer training to your
directors and help develop the work of new Irish playwrights. He
has subsequently directed many shows all over Ireland including
Howard Brenton's Sore Throats, Bill Hammond's Weave the
Red Thread (Dublin Theatre Festival), John Godber's Bouncers (Irish tour), Frank McGuinness' Someone Who'll Watch Over
Me (Island Theatre Company Limerick), Athol Fugard's The
Road To Mecca, Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, and
Henrik Ibsen's The Pillars of Society (City Arts Centre,
Dublin).
He was director of Theatre Studies at Ringsend Technical Institute,
Dublin until May 1999 when he was appointed Artistic Director of
Yew Tree Theatre in Ballina, County Mayo, a position he still holds.
In 2000, John won the Best Director at the Irish Times/ESB Theatre
Awards for ALONE IT STANDS, which he also wrote. The
play has been performed all over Ireland, UK, Australia, France
and New Zealand, and over 200,000 people worldwide
have seen the play. |
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 PAUL McGLINCHEY Actor
Paul, a native of Donegal, has appeared on stage, television and film in both Ireland and England. His most recent stage appearance was as Michael in Dancing At
Lughnasa in The Northcott Theatre Exeter. Amongst his favourite
roles to date are Lanky in Alone It Stands (UK & Ireland), Richard in Canaries (Irish Tour), Teddy in Big
Maggie, Doalty in Translations and Jacob in Red all
at An Grainán Theatre Letterkenny, Robert in The Mai (Irish Tour), Martin in Fool for Love (Andrews Lane), Fergal
in Women On The Verge Of HRT (English National Tour), Yakov
in The Seagull (Project @The Mint), Owen in Translations at The Samuel Beckett Centre Dublin and Rowan in The Factory
Girls (Irish Tour). |
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 DARREN McHUGH Actor
Born in Dublin, Darren was educated at University College Dublin and the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business. Theatre credits include Alone It Stands (UK & Ireland), The Man Who Gave The Beatles Away (The New Theatre), Scenes From A Watercooler (UK & Ireland), The Plough & The Stars (Gaiety Theatre, dir. Stephen Rea), The Dandy Dolls (Crypt), The Dining Room, The Happy Journey (Andrews Lane), and Bugsy Malone (Olympia Theatre).
Also a writer, Darren won awards for Best Actor and Best New Writing
for his own play The Rock Bottom Café at the Irish Student
Drama Awards. Subsequently, he was invited to perform the show at
the Dublin Fringe Festival. Recently, he finished his new play trimm^tabb.
His radio play Treading Water (You've Been Gone A Long Time) was shortlisted by the PJ O'Connor Radio Awards, while his short
film script Seven-Fifty was also shortlisted for a Filmbase/RTE
Award. |
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 AARON MONAGHAN Actor
Aaron graduated with a Bachelor in Acting Studies from the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College. While in Trinity, he appeared in The Dandy Dolls and When the Moon Has Set (dir. Conall Morrison), Ubu Roi (dir. Andy Crook), A Midsummer's Night Dream, Three Sisters and Cervantes Interludes (dir. Lily Susan Todd). He also trained at the British American Academy, Oxford, for which he received a scholarship. While there he appeared in Measure For Measure (dir. Richard Cottrell), The Europeans and Cloud Nine (dir. Mark Wing-Davey).
Theatre credits include Hades for Upstate Theatre Company
(dir. Declan Gorman) and Alone It Stands for Lane
Productions' UK & Irish tours (dir. John Breen). Aaron made
his Abbey Theatre debut to considerable acclaim as Tony Lumpkin,
in Patrick Mason's production of She Stoops to Conquer in 2003.
Since then Aaron has appeared as Redser in Peter Sheridan's Finders
Keepers at The Peacock, in Seamus Heaney's adaptation of Antigone and John McColgan's production of The Shaughran both
at the Abbey and as Joe Fell in I Do Not Like Thee Dr. Fell at
the Abbey for the Dublin Theatre Festival 2004. |
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 RYAN O'CONNOR Actor
Ryan hails from County Kildare and being a rugby fan, is delighted
to be performing in Alone It Stands. His theatre credits
include Michael Harding's Sleeping A Lovesong (Project Theatre),
Jim Cartwright's Road, Georges Feydeau's A Little Hotel
On The Side, Ken Harmon's Elyaian Juniors, Tom Murphy's
adaptation of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard (Abbey Theatre)
and Peter Shaffer's Amadeus (Samuel Beckett Theatre). He is
a graduate of the Gaiety School of Acting. |
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 KAREN SCULLY Actor
Trained at the Gaiety School of Acting, Karen's theatre credits
include Blowfish With Barabbas at The Ark, Down The Line and The Adventure of Shay Mouse at The Peacock, The
Living Space and St Aguna's with Readco, an Irish tour
of Gulliver's Travels with Galloglass Theatre Company, and Borstal Boy at the Gaiety Theatre. With Passion Machine Theatre,
Karen has performed in Buddleia at the Olympia Theatre, toured to
Poland's Kontakt Festival, the Dublin Theatre Festival and London's
Donmar Warehouse.
She appeared as Rosie Redmond in Joe Dowling's production of The
Plough and The Stars which toured Ireland and England
before transferring to The Garrick Theatre in the West End.
She played Boy in Roald Dahl's The Witches (Olympia Theatre)
and Helena in A Doll's House (Gate Theatre). Karen starred
in and choreographed Snow White and the Yellow Packs at The
Project and City Arts Centre. Most recently, she appeared in Savoy (The Peacock, dir. Conall Morrison). |
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 PATRICK RYAN Actor
Patrick trained at the Samuel Beckett Centre at Trinity College Dublin,
graduating with a BA in Theatre Studies. Credits include Pigtown (Island Theatre Company), Dracula (dir. Jim Culleton), The
Wedding (dir. David Parnell) and Our Country's Good (dir.
Mark Lambert). |
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