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Simon Doyle

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Simon Doyle is a playwright, librettist, and also makes longform video art for live music. His plays include The Black Crow (1995); Snooks! (1996); The Cave (1997); The Sandman (1998); and The Truth of the Moon (2000); Oedipus Loves you (2006; co-writer Gavin Quinn); Frogs (2008); Snakes (2008). His libretti include Obegon (2000; composer Simon O'Connor), Thwaite (2003; composer Jürgen Simpson), Gas (2007; composer Donnacha Dennehy). Among his performance texts are There Where (2001), Pebbles (2001), [h]Interlands (2002) and ¡ZAP! (2008). His collaborators for longform video art include The Crash Ensemble, Jürgen Simpson, Double Adaptor, Bad Lunatic and Thinker Org.

Adaptations

Play Title Playwright
Oedipus Loves You Gavin Quinn Simon Doyle Sophocles
Off Plan Simon Doyle Aeschylus
The Shitstorm Simon Doyle William Shakespeare

Dramaturg

Play Title Playwright
Everyone is King Lear in His Own Home William Shakespeare
Newcastlewest Dick Walsh