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An innovative promenade theatre piece, directed by Robert Gordon at the Dublin Theatre Festival.
Beds played to packed houses in a two week run, and was selected by columnist Fintan O'Toole of The Irish Times as one of the most interesting plays of the Irish theatre festival.
"It deals
with issues such as Irish attitudes to abortion, sex, and role playing
tied together by the common theme of the bed. The method of production
really catches the imagination."
Colm
Cronin
Actors Sean Campion and Una Clancy in rehearsal for "Beds"
LA CORBIERE (1989)
La Corbiere premiered
in the '89 Dublin Theatre Festival. One of its more recent stagings was
a production in Beirut. This play started life as a poem written in response
to the tale of the fate of French prostitutes who were shipwrecked at
Corbiere Lighthouse during WW2. Hartigan
reworked the poem as a one act play for a cast of six. She
also performed it as a one woman theatre piece (in
Jersey Lilies) at The
Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin.
"Anne
Hartigan has articulated the submerged voices of women everywhere in a
poignant interplay of words that express the gamut of women's emotions
in daily life... Beautifully directed by Cathy Leeney." - Irish
Press. See more reviews
of this play
Corbiere lighthouse, Jersey (UK)
La Corbiere is published in the poetry collection Immortal Sins (Salmon). You can buy this book here.
Seen and Heard, the first anthology of Irish women's plays (Carysfort press) includes the one act adaptation of La Corbiere (for a cast of six).
Seen and Heard
click for info
a trilogy: La Corbiere, Les Yeux, and Le Crapaud.
A trilogy
of one act plays for two actors. Inspired by events in wartime Jersey.
It premiered in 1996 at the Samuel Beckett Theatre in Dublin, performed
by the playwright Anne Hartigan and actor / director Robert Gordon (pictured
right).
La Corbiere is performed here as a one woman show (as published in Immortal Sins.)
It has two companion pieces:
Robert Gordon in rehearsal for Jersey Lilies
A play for one man who plays dual roles: a Nazi officer and a slave worker. The Nazis brought men to Jersey from all over Europe, many died as they laboured building an underground labyrinth.
Detail from a work by Claude Cahun
A play for a cast of two. Inspired by the work of two women: Claude Cahun, a French surrealist photographer, and her stepsister Suzanne. Together they worked their own unique form of resistance to the Nazi occupation of Jersey.
THE SECRET GAME (1995)
Anne's most recent full length drama. Winner of the Mobil Prize for Irish playwrights in 1995. The Secret Game's most recent outing was a public reading in 2003 in the Soho Playhouse, New York, produced by Scott Morfee.
I DO LIKE TO BE BESIDE THE SEASIDE
Hartigan's first full length play was set in an old peoples home (with a large cast including roles for five older actors).
In Other Worlds, a short one act play, was performed in three continents in 2003. Hartigan's most recent play was commissioned for a festival of plays by European writers.
First performed in Ohio, USA in April 2003. This production then toured to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2003.
In Other Worlds was also produced at Otago, New Zealand directed by Florence Hartigan in July 2003.
For information on performance rights for any of these plays please use the contact page.
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