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Michael West

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Michael West's work for the Corn Exchange includes A Play on Two Chairs, Car Show, Dublin By Lamplight, Everyday, Man of Valour and an adaptation of James Joyce's Dubliners. In collaboration with Team theatre he has written two plays for children: Forest Man and Jack Fell Down. Other work includes versions of The Marriage of Figaro (Abbey), Tartuffe (Gate), Moliere's Don Juan and The Tender Trap (an adaptation of La Double Inconstance by Marivaux), both for Pigsback. He has also translated or adapted work by Arrabel, de Musset, Bely and Brecht. Other plays include Monkey, Sardines, Snow, The Quirk Estate, and a piece for radio, The Death of Naturalism. His play Conservatory was produced by the Abbey Theatre at the Peacock in 2014.

Playwriting Credits

Play Title Playwright
A Play on Two Chairs Michael West
Conservatory Michael West
Dear Ireland I Blindboy Boatclub Emmet Kirwan Carmel Winters Rosaleen McDonagh Enda Walsh David Ireland Iseult Golden Shaun Dunne Jody O'Neill Sarah Hanly John Connors Manchán Magan Shane O'Reilly Eva O'Connor Nancy Harris Edna O'Brien Owen McCafferty Aoife Martyn Frank McGuinness Arthur Riordan Feli Speaks Andrea Molino John O'Donovan (2) Gina Moxley Deirdre Kinahan Abbie Spallen Michael West Zoe Ní Riordáin Thomas Kane Byrne Karen Cogan Sinéad Burke Jimmy Murphy Dermot Bolger Ursula Rani Sarma Carys D. Coburn Zhu Yi Meadhbh McHugh Pom Boyd Stacey Gregg Colm Keegan (2) Phillip McMahon Darach Mac Con Iomaire Sonya Kelly Margaret Perry Joseph O'Connor (1) Kit de Waal Ciara Elizabeth Smyth Keith James Walker Mark O'Halloran Una McKevitt
Death and the Ploughman Michael West
Dublin by Lamplight Michael West
Dublin by Lamplight Michael West
Everyday Michael West
Foley Michael West
Forest Man Michael West
Freefall Michael West
Jack Fell Down Michael West
Man of Valour Michael West
Monkey Michael West
Sardines Michael West
Scene Around Six Michael West
Snow Michael West
The Fall of the Second Republic Michael West
Tiny Plays for Ireland Gerald Murphy Rosaleen McDonagh Jody O'Neill Niamh Creely Evan Lee D'Alton Colin Murphy Rachel Feehily Mark Hennessy Adrienne Michel-Long Gregory Rosenstock Michael Cussen Ronan Geoghegan Ciara Ní Chuirc Jesse Weaver Antonia Hart Darren Donohue Joseph O'Connor (1) Michael West Dermot Bolger Michelle Read Deirdre Kinahan Karl O'Neill Rory Nolan Ardal O'Hanlon Sean McLoughlin