Sean Moffatt Radio Plays
Sean Moffatt has written for stage, television and radio. He has lectured in Ireland and Europe and is the editor of Leaving Certificate / A level texts of two of Sean O'Casey's plays.
He is an instructor at the Irish Writers' Centre in Parnell Square, Dublin. He has written for "Fair City" for many years. In case you've not heard of it, this is Ireland's favourite TV soap opera, a gritty controversial drama set in a fictional suburb of Dublin. (Recent stories have covered drug abuse, euthanasia, homosexuality, rape and AIDS) He also works for a film company producing films contemporary in setting with strong dramatic human stories.
He is currently Chairman of the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters' Guild.
The Sean Moffatt radio plays which I've managed to trace are listed below.
If there are others which have been broadcast on RTE, I would be grateful to receive details.
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BBC BROADCASTS
2014 Tempting Faith*
1997 Only the Birds*
1992 Myndag and the Chalice of Wisdom, 4 x 30m #
1991 Lucifer and the Lobster*, 90m
1988 Once in a Lifetime
# =in BBC archive
* =in VRPCC collections
NOTES
TEMPTING FAITH....2014
By Sean Moffatt. 14 Apr 2014. When Faith's car is stolen she persuades the hapless Martin into a high-speed car chase, with catastrophic results. Faith - Karen Ardiff, Martin -Patrick Fitzsymons, with B.J.Hogg, Luke Griffin, Dawn Bradfield and Seanin Brennan. Producer Eoin O'Callaghan.
ONLY THE BIRDS....1997
R4, comedy produced by Roland Jaquarello. A creaking floorboard
is only the start of Baldwen's problems when the experts are called in.....(GL)
MYNDAG & THE CHALICE OF WISDOM....1992
An ancient tale of demons, druids and magical powers. With
Matthew Byam-Shaw, Peter Copley, Mark Drewry, Caroline Hunt, Richard
Lintern, Juliet Prew, Hugh Ross; directed by Eoin O'Callahagn.
First episode broadcast 9.3.92. ....(GL)
LUCIFER & THE LOBSTER....1991
Sunday Playhouse, 2.30pm, 16 Jun 91.
A Faustian pastiche adapted from a story by James Joyce. The fraudulent
mayor of an island community finds that between the devil and the deep
blue sea lies a lobster named Spike. With Kevin Flood, John Hewitt,
Stella McCusker, Wesley Murphy, B.J.Hogg, Aine McCartney, Robert
Taylor; dir. Eoin O'Callahagn.
ONCE IN A LIFETIME....1988
No details yet.
Nigel Deacon / Diversity Website
Thanks to Greg Linden for sending details of two plays which I missed.
