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Owen McCafferty

Owen McCafferty is a Belfast-based playwright. His plays include: Quietly (Abbey Theatre, Dublin and Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, 2013); an adaptation of JP Miller’s Days of Wine and Roses (Donmar Warehouse, London, 2005); Scenes from the Big Picture (National Theatre, London, 2003); Shoot the Crow (Druid, Galway, 1997; Royal Exchange, Manchester, 2003); Mojo Mickybo (Kabosh, Belfast, 1998); No Place Like Home (Tinderbox, Belfast, 2001) and Closing Time (National Theatre, 2002).

Scenes from the Big Picture won the John Whiting Award, the Meyer Whitworth Award and the Evening Standard Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright in 2003, making McCafferty the first writer to win all three awards in a single year.

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Antigone

Antigone

By Sophocles Adapted by Owen McCafferty

A muscular version of Sophocles' timeless masterpiece, offering a profound reflection on the nature of power, democracy and human rights.

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Closing Time

Closing Time

By Owen McCafferty

McCafferty's break-through play, a tender and comic portrait of love, dignity and emotional damage.

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Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays

Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays

By Owen McCafferty

Three astute, savvy early plays from Belfast writer Owen McCafferty.

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Shoot the Crow

Shoot the Crow

By Owen McCafferty

An endearing yet hard-hitting comic portrait of how the need to work gets in the way of living.

Scenes From the Big Picture

Scenes From the Big Picture

By Owen McCafferty

An epic, masterful twenty-plus-character play about Belfast and its multitude of urban denizens.

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Singular Male Voices

Singular Male Voices

By Peter Harness, Owen McCafferty and Ronan O'Donnell

Three plays for one (male) actor, each giving voice to a character in extremis.

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Days of Wine and Roses

Days of Wine and Roses (stage version)

By Owen McCafferty

JP Miller's 1962 film Days of Wine and Roses, adapted brilliantly for the stage by Owen McCafferty.

Cold Comfort

Cold Comfort

By Owen McCafferty

A powerful monologue about an Irish labourer living in London who returns home to Belfast to have a last, drunken 'conversation' with his recently dead father.

Published in volume Singular Male Voices
    The Waiting List

    The Waiting List

    By Owen McCafferty

    A blackly comic monologue about a man under siege in the community where he grew up.

    Published in volume Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays
      I Won't Dance - Don't Ask Me

      I Won't Dance - Don't Ask Me

      By Owen McCafferty

      An early short monologue play from Northern Irish writer Owen McCafferty.

      Published in volume Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays
        Mojo Mickybo

        Mojo Mickybo

        By Owen McCafferty

        An unsentimental portrayal of innocence betrayed by communal hatred in Belfast during the 1970s.