Syd Cheatle Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Syd Cheatle Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Syd Cheatle (born 6 January 1936) was an Irish architect and writer

born in Dublin. His father was Jack Cheatle, who was leader of the

RTÉ Concert Orchestra while his mother was Aileen Foley, a cellist

from Skibbereen. Syd attended Castleknock College before going to

Dublin Institute of Technology to study architecture. After training

he left Ireland to start his career as a writer.[1]After leaving

Ireland for London to write, 1970 saw his first two plays, Retreat and

The Director produced by the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1970. His next

play, Straight Up, received its premiere at the Traverse Theatre in

Edinburgh and subsequently transferred to the Piccadilly Theatre in

London in December 1971. It premiered in the US at the Kansas City

playhouse in 1973 with subsequent productions in Seattle, Newhaven,

Washington DC and New York City. Straight Up was translated into

German by Jurgen and Astrid Fischer and given the German title Im

Schoss der Familie. The translation premiered in Germany at the

Landestheater Darmstadt in 1972, and was then successful over a

14-year period with German and Austrian major productions in cities

such as Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart and Vienna.[1]

Straigght Up was premiered in Australia by the Western Australia

Theatre Company in Perth.[2]He also worked as an architect in London

with Idea International, he was involved in many high-profile projects

all over the world but the most prestigious was probably the Lloyds

Building in London but he was growing increasingly homesick. He leased

a house on Sherkin Island, County Cork and split his time between

London and the island until he moved there permanently in 1989. He

threw himself into island life and was advocated on behalf of the

community on Sherkin and other island communities for local

authorities to support them.[1]Cheatle died on 22 March 2018 at the

age of 82, when he was a resident in a nursing home in Clonakilty. He

was survived by his wife Miriam, née Dunne, and his three children,

His grave is in Tullagh Cemetery, Baltimore, County Cork.[3]
Syd Cheatle Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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