Billy Roche
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Billy Roche (born 11 January 1949) is an Irish playwright and actor.
He was born and lives in Wexford, and the bulk of his books are based there.
He began writing in the 1980s after being a member of The Roach Band.
He has written a number of scripts, including The Wexford Trilogy.
He has also written a screenplay about Trojan Eddie, published a book of short stories, and written Tumbling Down.
Career
Roche is best known for the three full-length plays that comprise The Wexford Trilogy, which were staged at the Bush Theatre in London and directed by Robin Lefevre:
Stuart Burge also directed the three plays for BBC television in 1993 with the original Bush cast members.
The 1980s were not a good decade for new dramatists, as Michael Billington has pointed to only a handful who made a significant contribution. Billy Roche, a young Irish writer whose Wexford Trilogy at the Bush investigated the growing effects of small-town life in minute, Chekhovian detail."
Amphibians (RSC 1992; The Cavalcaders, Dublin 1993; Royal Court 1994); and On Such As We We (Abbey Theatre, Dublin 2001).
Roche wrote Lay Me Down Softly, set in a traveling boxing ring "somewhere in Ireland," which made its first appearance at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin in November 2008. [1]. Billy Adapted, produced, and Toured in a One-man Stage Version of his bookla "The Diary of Maynard Perdu" from 1997-2019, along with writer Peter McCamley.
He has appeared in Aristocrats by Brian Friel (1993), The Cavalcaders (1993), Man About Dog (2004), and The Eclipse (2009), a film based loosely on a short story written by Roche.
Trojan Eddie's screenplay was written by him (Film Four/Irish Screen, 1997) starring Richard Harris and Stephen Rea.
Tumbling Down (Wolfhound Press, Dublin, 1986), Roche's literary work includes the novel Tumbling Down (Wolfhound Press, Dublin, 1986). In 2006, Pillar Press, Kilkenny, published a collection of short stories titled Tales from Rainwater Pond. He re-released and re-released his book Tumbling Down in a stunning collectors' edition that was published by Tassel Press in May 2008. He wrote the bookla "The Diary of Maynard Perdu" (Lantern, Wexford, 2008).
In 2005, Roche selected students from all over Wexford for tutoring. They co-founded the first 'Novus' magazine,' which went on sale a few days after the company disbanded. These students, who were coached by Roche and his longtime companion Eoin Colfer (the author of the internationally acclaimed Artemis Fowl books), were the first in a long line of students under Roche's guidance.
Roche and Colfer worked with each student on their own short stories, assisting them in making improvements to better reflect the tales. Roche has expanded to assist more local writers since the humble beginnings of Novus. Two books of work have been published by this young group of writers associated with Roche. The Inked (2007) and Inked 2 (2008) are two of Roche's tutoring efforts.
He was elected a member of Aosdána in 2007.