by Kevin Fegan

 . . . a love story waiting to happen

*Fireflies mate when they find another firefly whose tail flashes at the same frequency

This funny and intensely moving piece from ‘England’s most underated playwright’ (City Life) is about 2 people living on an estate in north Manchester. When the play opens they don’t know each other.
The story takes place during a critical 10 minutes of their lives.
Leigh has phoned for a taxi to take her to the airport. She’s going to Italy to find her real dad.
Nelson is the taxi driver, this is his last night on the cars. Exhausted by trying to look after his heroin-addicted daughter he’s decided to leave after this one last fare.

Throughout the 90 minutes of the play their stories spin out, populated by the residents of the estate, revealing in raw passionate language the lives that they’ve led and leaving the audience in no doubt that Leigh and Nelson are flashing at the same rate.

If only . . .

Production of Fireflies has been postponed, and details will be put on the website when available


KEVIN FEGAN – PLAYWRIGHT & POET
“Britain’s most innovative Playwright” (PLAYS INTERNATIONAL)
“Fegan is a Poet & Playwright with a capacity for sympathetic identification and a taste for tough, complex issues” (GUARDIAN)
“Strong lyrical writing, Fegan is a really promising writer” (OBSERVER)
“Fegan runs ever faster to keep his work at the leading edge of contemporary life” (INDEPENDENT)
Kevin has written over 30 plays for the stage, 6 plays for BBC Radio 4 plus a Woman’s Hour Serial and a Classic Serial, 2 short films plus a brief spell as a Storyline Writer for Coronation St and 6 volumes of poetry (3 published this year). Kevin is currently appearing as a Poet on BBC 3’s “Whine Gums” and has received an Arts Council Award for “The Epic Tour” (3 dramatic poems written & performed by Kevin). Current theatre commissions include adapting “Love on the Dole” for The Lowry for Autumn 2004.
Co-Founder of Big Theatre Company and Lonesome Trail Pictures.

COMMISSIONED WORK BY KEVIN FEGAN PRODUCED IN 2002-2003
“52 Degrees South” written & directed by Kevin Fegan & Andy Farrell, a Big Theatre production @ Imperial War Museum North (Commonwealth Games cultural programme). Lottery funded. Winner Best New Play Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards 2002.
“Blast” @ Contact Theatre, a Manchester Poetry Festival commission. Stage version of my Sony nominated BBC Radio4 45mins dramatic poem (published by Five Leaves)
“The Tuner”, Friday Night Play BBC Radio 4.
“Racer”, Afternoon Play BBC Radio 4. A 45mins dramatic poem performed by Paul McGann (published by Five Leaves)
“Game On” @ Unity Theatre Liverpool. Youth theatre production.
“Let Your Left Hand Sing”, a 55mins dramatic poem written & performed by Kevin Fegan. Commissioned by Long Journey Home Festival (published by Five Leaves).
“Get Real” @ Blackpool Grand Theatre. Main house commission for youth theatre.
“EatEat” – writer/deviser on a co-production between Quarantine and Leicester Haymarket Theatre with refugees, performed at Leicester Guildhall.
“Private Times” – 10 mins EPK for feature film idea, showcased at Cannes 2002 by NW Vision

A SELECTION OF COMMISSIONED WORK BEFORE 2002
REPERTORY THEATRE – plays include “Strange Attractors”, “Excess XS” and “McAlpine’s Fusilier” for Contact Theatre Manchester and “Private Times” for The Library Theatre Manchester.
SITE-SPECIFIC THEATRE - plays include “Lord Dynamite” (with John Fox) for Welfare State International (LIFT ’91 & national tour), “Seven-Tenths” for Walk the Plank Theatre Ship (2 British tours by sea) and “The Clayman” (El Innocente Productions) @ Woolaton Park, Nottingham (NewArtsWork commission) & Upper Campfield Market Castlefield (Manchester City of Drama ‘94).
SMALL-SCALE TOURING THEATRE – plays include “Rule 43”(Cracked Actors) toured nationally twice including 30 British prisons, “Liars, Fakers & People Being Honest” (Talking Pictures) British tour, “Matey Boy” (El Innocente/Welfare State International) an epic dramatic poem written & performed by Kevin, national tour.
STUDIO THEATRE – plays include “Totally Wired” (commissioned by West Yorkshire Playhouse, performed at Contact), “White Van Man” (Ashton Group, Barrow), “A” (Leicester Haymarket).
COMMUNITY THEATRE - plays include “Game Challenge Level 7” for NIA Centre & Contact Theatre in Moss Side & Hulme Manchester, “Shipyard Tales” for Welfare State International in Barrow-in-Furness, “Deckchair Tales” for Opera North in Mansfield, “Catch As Catch Can” in Haslingden and “Private Times” with an all-prisoner cast at H.M.Prison Grendon.
YOUTH THEATRE - plays include “Wan2Tlk” @ Unity Theatre Liverpool for New Heys Community School, “Get Up And Go” @ Millenium Dome London for Warrington Borough Council and “Every One A Winner” (Notts C.C. tour & Edinburgh Fringe)
POETRY - 6 volumes of poetry (2 of which were commissioned & broadcast by BBCRadio 4). Hundreds of readings: live performance, radio and television.
BBC RADIO 4 - plays include “The Tuner” (The Friday Night Play), “Upon St.George’s Hill” (The Monday Play), “Blast”, “Racer” & “The Joke Shop” (all Afternoon Theatres) plus a 15x15mins Woman’s Hour Daily Serial (dramatization of James Hanley’s “The Furys”, starring Oscar-winning actress Brenda Fricker) and a Classic Serial (dramatization of Akutagawa’s story “In A Grove”, starring Hollywood superstar Natasha McElhone)
TV & FILM - two short films “Dancing in the Ruins” (NW Film Award – shown @ ICA London for a week) and “Private Times” (see above). A brief spell as a Storyline Writer for Coronation St. Also “Shangrila Lancs” (co-written with Henry Normal), a BBC 1 comedy drama series commission which was not produced.

Further info is available on Kevin’s website: www.kevinfegan.co.uk