Dermot Murphy won an award at the
8th International Theatre Festival
Santa
Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia,
with his play El Cóndor y la Niña (The
Condor & the Maiden), which was read by AWL in
2008. He has published
short stories, articles and textbooks, and now focuses on writing for
the stage. He speaks and writes French and Spanish and has made translations
from both languages.
Credits
AWL
Writing Credits
Credits
Stage Plays
The Condor and the Maiden
Set in South America, the play follows
the lives
of a daughter and her mother. Disputes over land and
family
loyalty
become
entwined in their daily struggle to scrape a living, while
the
mother tries to ensure a better future for her child.
Performed and won an award at the 8th International
Theatre
Festival Santa
Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, April 2011.
Performed at the King's Head, March 2010
“Moving, thought-provoking”
“A humorous, morally coherent play”
Time Share Partner
After many bad experiences, Cheryl has found the man of her dreams.
As
she sits in a hotel lobby, waiting to meet someone, she tells us
about
the romance and her plan to ensure she does not lose the
one man who
is not a bastard.
Performed at North London Actors
City of Rats
Miguel de Cervantes, held captive in Algiers by Barbary pirates,
collaborates with his master, Ali, and plots his next escape attempt
with Ali’s daughter, Zohra. Can he realise his ideal of liberty
and enable Zohra to live as she wants?
Performed at SourFeast Theatre Company,
Brixton
Last Christmas
He has plans about the best place to go, and she expects high
standards from her gentlemen; will the day live up to last Christmas?
Performed at SourFeast Theatre Company,
Brixton
Payback
Al owes one to Bob, but he wasn’t meant to look
in the bag,
was he? And what has Bob planned anyway?
Published in T Toussaint (ed)
Between the Lines
– a collection of creative
writing and illustrations
London: City Literary Institute
Contact
E: Dermot Murphy
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