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Valley Of The Squinting Windows
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MICHAEL is a freelance writer, composer, theatre director & international producer.
Receiving his training in Europe. He was Theatre Director @ Project, Program Director Dublin Theatre Festival, Director @ Tivoli Theatre
He created the Theatre Space a the RHA Downstairs and brought live performances back the Ambassador Theatre Dublin .
IN 1999 he reopened the SFX Centrein Dublin as SFX CITY THEATRE a multi purpose space for people to make and dream until it became a block of flats.
Currently he is Artistic Director City Theatre Dublin, which tours nationally and internationally
Professionally writing plays and music for theatre/dance since 1984, and commissioned by SIAMSA TIRE, he created two original music theatre works for them . He has written a number of plays and theatre shows for young and community performers and audiences.. He is currently under commission from Mullingar Centre for the Performing Arts to create a stage adaptation of the Anne Girffin's international bestselling novel WHEN ALL IS SAID and is workshopping a new versions of THE THREE SISTERS.
A full list of original theatre works can be found here.
For IRISH MODERN DANCE THEATRE he has composed several original musical works : In 2020/1 the score for the dance film “In The Vicinity Of The Sun” & the opening music for “Dancer From the Dance Festival”& the score for two works in the festival. Currently he is composing a new setting of THE SONG OF AMERGIN (funded by as 2021 Arts Council Agility Award) and researching and writing an original song cycle based on “Chamber Music” by James Joyce,
For Yeats150 he composed SONGS FROM THE SWANS AT COOLE for Tenor & Soprano which played at major regional venues in Ireland, and Expo Milan.
In 2020, he composed CAOINEADH/LAMENTATIONS under an Arc Council Covid Response Grant, the music was available free for 9 months (until June 16th 21), it will be released to purchase in 2022.
A full list of original music composition can be found here.
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CHRISTMAS STORIES
Mercier Press and City Theatre Dublin present - Author John B.Keane reads a selection of his own Christmas Stories, edited By Micahel Scott.
New evidence (from the UN's archive in New York was sanctioned at the highest level ) of a United Nations "cover-up" into the events has come to light. When the the troops returned to Ireland, they were branded as "cowards" and disgraced - often beeing opeing abused in the towns anc cities to which they returned and made to swear that they would bnever breath a word of the evnts to anyone in future - even thier famils.
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MICHAEL SCOTT MUSIC
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Original Music by Michael Scott
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The Cuchulain Cycle
The Kerry Dances
Solar
Caoineadh /Lametations
I Love Christmas Eve (with Shay Healy)
Industrial Landscapes
La Chunga
The Valley Of the Squinting Windows
George Floyd 9.25
Piano Songs
Intimate Gold
Next to Skin
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JADOTVILLE - The Untold Story
A new multimedia theatre work by writer and director Michael Scott, based on the Siege of Jadotville, in September 1961 in Katanga, will be presented at Mullingar Centre For The Performing Arts in the Autumn of 2025.
The production will focus on the troops who returned, and how they were vilified and treated, by the officials and general public for their bravery and resilience… the real story has been disgracefully swept under the carpet for years. In UN and Irish government circles, however, all that mattered was that the men had surrendered, not that they had shown such resourcefulness and bravery against a numerically superior enemy. The legacy of Jadotville for Irish veterans is Suicide, Alcoholism and PTSD.
Only recently that some kind of recognition has been afforded to the men of “A” Company – it is believed that at least six Irish soldiers took their own lives as result of the siege, several others descended into alcoholism and several it is considered, drank themselves to death. Others have seen their sense of “self and value” - wiped away. All have been damaged not by the siege itself, but by their treatment upon return to Ireland.
As part of the "Congo Crisis" lasting five days, "A" Company, a small contingent of the Irish Army's 35th Battalion, was besieged at the UN base near the mining town of Jadotville (where the ore for the atomic bombs was mined) by Katanganese mercenaries loyal to the secessionist STATE OF KATANGA.
Led by Commandant Pat Quinlin, the 155 Irish soldiers repelled attacks by a 3000-strong Katanganese force. Outnumbered 20 to one, the 155 lightly armed Irish UN Peacekeepers held out for five days until they ran out of ammunition and water but, thanks to the remarkable tactical awareness of their commander, Commandant Pat Quinlan, and the military skills of his men, they suffered no fatalities.
Quinlan’s leadership was a feat of arms in getting his troops through the siege without losing a single man and it was a masterpiece of improvised defence, which is now taught worldwide in army colleges.
The Irish forces inflicted approx. 1300 casualties (300 killed) with no deaths amongst the Irish troops.
The occupation of Jadotville, ostensibly to protect civilians, was ordered by Irish diplomat Conor Cruise O’Brien (then special representative to the secretary general of the UN, Dag Hammarskjold) and by Lt Gen Seán McKeown, who had overall command of UN troops in the Congo. O’Brien was disowned by the United Nations for ordering military intervention in Katanga in 1961, but documents published in 2018 confirm that he was acting with the full authority of the UN.
In May 1961, O’Brien had been appointed as a special representative of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld to oversee the independence of the Congo. In August of that year, he ordered UN peacekeeping troops into action to take control of Katanga from secessionist rebels. In the aftermath of the disastrous intervention, the UN effectively disowned O’Brien and the mysterious death of Hammarskjöld in a plane crash on September 18th during a visit to the Congo to try and resolve the situation further muddied the waters.
We are looking for survivors and/or their wives or partners to come and share their experiences and memories with us as a basis for the production. We have already interviewed a number of people already and would like to be able to tell the whole story based on fact and not conjecture.
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