Behind the Scenes Volunteering Experience: Making NIGHTTOWN
Behind the Scenes Volunteering Experience: Making NIGHTTOWN by Laurie Ingram NIGHTTOWN is a play based on a chapter from James Joyce’s Ulysses that records the feverish experience of Dublin’s sordid nightlife in the early 1900s. Adapted by director Joe O’Byrne and presented by Co-Motion Media and Carnation Theatre Company, this performance brings into action the […]
“Madame de Markievicz on Trial” by Ann Matthews
Come check out “Madame de Markievicz on Trial”, a new play by Ann Matthews, from 21st April to 2nd May. Ann has been involved with the Five Lamps Arts Festival in the past so we are very happy to be supporting her new play!
Fuss on the Bus
Fuss on the Bus follows the lives of two girls by way of a bus journey through the decades. We first meet Nell and Rita as 12-year-olds in 1954 as their bus trundles along Abbey Street, Upper Gardner Street, Drumcondra, Dublin Airport, Santry, Lusk, Skerries and Balbriggan. A whole life will be lived and loved from school days […]
Bathnight on Henrietta Street
Bathnight on Henrietta Street takes place on the 24th of July, 1969. And what’s so important you might ask? Is it that man has just landed on the moon with all Ireland gripped around their TV sets as man takes one giant leap into the unknown? Not a bit of it! It’s Bathnight on Henrietta Street and that’s […]
44 Seville Place in association with Irish Writers Centre
44 Seville Place is the new one man show from writer, director and performer Peter Sheridan, who grew up in a family of seven, not far from the river Liffey on Dublin’s north docks. 44 Seville Place is directed by Maggie Byrne and produced by Donal Shiels. Set in the 1960s, 44 Seville Place is his funny, warm and […]
A Grey Area- a Rehearsed Reading with Songs
A rehearsed reading of ‘A Grey Area’, written by Paula Lonergan in collaboration with Lorraine Mc Colgan. “To acknowledge that I am dead acknowledges that I lived”. A drama in which the council is digging up the suicide plot at Clonliffe Crossroads as the land has been sold to private developers. The locals have campaigned strongly for […]
A rehearsed reading of ‘The Birthday Cake’ by Niamh Gleeson in association with Irish Writers Centre
Niamh Gleeson and a group of actors will be doing a rehearsed reading of her new play, The Birthday Cake at Irish Writers Centre. Niamh was born and raised in Dublin and currently lives in Mayo. She trained as a professional actor in the Gaiety School of Acting, before turning her hand to writing. She is […]