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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 Zoe Ní Riordáin Karen Cogan Jimmy Murphy Ursula Rani Sarma Zhu Yi Pom Boyd Thomas Kane Byrne Stacey Gregg Sinéad Burke Dermot Bolger Carys D. Coburn Meadhbh McHugh Colm Keegan (2) Phillip McMahon Darach Mac Con Iomaire Sonya Kelly Margaret Perry Carmel Winters Joseph O'Connor (1) Enda Walsh Kit de Waal Iseult Golden Sarah Hanly Ciara Elizabeth Smyth John Connors Keith James Walker Shane O'Reilly Mark O'Halloran Nancy Harris Una McKevitt Owen McCafferty Frank McGuinness Blindboy Boatclub Shaun Dunne Feli Speaks Emmet Kirwan Manchán Magan Gina Moxley Abbie Spallen Rosaleen McDonagh Eva O'Connor Michael West David Ireland Edna O'Brien Jody O'Neill Aoife Martyn Arthur Riordan Andrea Molino John O'Donovan (2) Deirdre Kinahan
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 Jesse Weaver Antonia Hart Darren Donohue Joseph O'Connor (1) Michael West Dermot Bolger Michelle Read Deirdre Kinahan Sean McLoughlin Karl O'Neill Rosaleen McDonagh Rory Nolan Niamh Creely Ardal O'Hanlon Gerald Murphy Evan Lee D'Alton Jody O'Neill Rachel Feehily Colin Murphy Mark Hennessy Adrienne Michel-Long Gregory Rosenstock Michael Cussen Ronan Geoghegan Ciara Ní Chuirc