“She won’t stop. Not until reality matches her lunatic version of the world.” Sharp, twisted and funny, Fair Deal charts one last night in the Thornton family home. Kiera is counting down the hours until she can finally break free of family commitments. Everything is in hand until her estranged mother, Sandra,...
Marking 100 years since it premiered on the Abbey Stage, Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars returns, in an exciting new production directed by Tom Creed At its original production in February 1926, the audience rioted. Now regarded as a masterpiece, this provocative play is an essential part of our understanding of Irish history...
Critically-acclaimed VOLTA THEATRE COMPANY returns to Smock Alley with a new production of Shakespeare’s gripping tale of murder, totalitarianism and how a person loses their soul. In a battle-ravaged land where power is concentrated in the hands of warlords known as Thanes, society is held together by unwavering loyalty...
Hollywood icon Mischa Barton (The O.C.) returns to the Gaiety Theatre stage in Double Indemnity, the gripping adaptation of one of the greatest crime novels of the 20th Century – the story that inspired Billy Wilder’s film noir classic. “I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake” Los Angeles, 1930’s. Amidst the wreckage...
Three boys, one girl, and a friend who won’t stay dead. It wasn’t meant to happen this way, it wasn’t supposed to go this far. They didn’t mean it. Sure, it was only supposed to be a mess. SIMPLE CREATURES is a dark exploration of violence amongst young people in today’s...
"UCD Dramsoc presents ‘Panopticon’ Written and directed by Alexandru Petrovici Set in the dystopian dictatorship of Taveria, we follow Igor Gordiov, a young member of the secret police tasked with finding the ‘subversive’ who spray-painted an anti-authoritarian symbol on a wall in his hometown of Sposterez. As he interviews various...
Maynooth University Presents 'The Editing Process' A writer struggles to finish editing a script as their deadline approaches. With the help of their partner, they decide to try a new method of fine tuning that leads to a strain in their life.
University Galway presents: The Little Prince directed by Eva Griesbach After a pilot crashes in a remote desert, he meets a young boy filled with curiosity, whimsy and a complex relationship with a rose. ‘The Little Prince’ follows the boy as he jumps from planet to planet, meeting people, snake...
Starring Kym Marsh (Coronation Street, Waterloo Road and Abigails Party), this thrilling new play invites you into a world in which trusts is fragile, friendships are tested, and secrets lurk behind every closed door. Allie is a recently divorced single mum juggling parenthood with the launch of a startup. When she takes...
Director:Barrie Kosky Starring:Andreas Schager, Peter Hoare Raised by a scheming dwarf and unaware of his true family origins, a young man embarks on an epic journey. Soon, destiny brings him face-to-face with a shattered sword, a fearsome dragon and the cursed ring it guards, and a Valkyrie forced...
University Galway's Dram Soc presents 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens, Directed by Imogen Malcolm It’s Christmas Eve and Ebenezer Scrooge couldn't be more disgusted with the festivities of the season. It also happens to be the anniversary of the death of Scrooge’s business partner, so it comes as quite...
Queen's University Players present: Last Call, written and directed by Eimear Mullan Last Call is set over one winter evening in a local Irish pub as a weather warning traps a handful of patrons inside. Féidhlim, a stalled musician working behind the bar spends the night with his best friend...