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Theatre, Radio Drama, Society Collaborations
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Tea With the Dead
During a heavy storm, a visitor stumbles into a tea shop, where a local woman begins to tell the stories of lingering ghosts and mysterious hauntings
Writer - Erin Martinaud
Director - Brona Joyce
Stage Manager - Amy McDonagh
Assistant Director - Cian Farrelly
Cast list
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Narrator - Adam Carr
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Lord James Harrison - Patrick Molloy
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Saoirse Ui Connaught - Caitlyn Coyne
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Grace Sheehan - Abbie Burke
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The Visitor - Paul Daffy
Lighting Designer - Sapphire Gilfoyle
Sound Designer - Erin Martinaud
Sets/ Props - Brona Joyce & Amy McDonagh
Costume - Aimee Mulcahy
Tupperware Party
Is your life lacking freshness? Are you tired of your husband complaining about dry leftovers? Can you just not help but feel that there is something missing from your home? Well, fret not, ladies! Our tupperware is tightly sealed—and so are our lips
Writer - Ella Conneff
Director - Drieske Steijl
Stage Manager - Cassia Donner
Cast
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Robin - Kate Timothy
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Susan - Alicia Recio Mudarra
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Gail - Ralitsa Nikolova
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Martha - Katerina Warnecke Soto
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Julie - Jessica Tokarski
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Dianne - Cara Schmidt
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Charles - Jude Gorman
Lighting & Sound Designer - Drieske Steijl
Sets/ Props - Erin Martinaud
Costumes - Emer Kenny
Hair and Makeup - Jessica Tokarski
Hate to be the Bearer
Tune in to Duncallach FM, the small town radio show where all the bad news can be blamed on host (and local pariah) Rory Madigan. Though all he does is report on the news he’s given, locals can’t help but ostracise him. When his business-focused boss gives him the worst news in years, Rory is torn between his career ambitions and preserving his local reputation.
Writer - Anna Tracey
Director - JJ O’Regan
Stage Manager - Alanna Heussaff
Cast
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Skips - Cael Carey Bolton
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Callers 2&3 - Peter Garvey
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Caller 1 - Jude Gorman
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Rory Madigan - Matthew Newell
Lighting, Sound Designer Alanna Heussaff & JJ O’Regan
Sets/ Props/Costumes - Cassia Donner
Showgirl Showdown
In 1920's Las Vegas, life for showgirls Helen and Ruth is all glamourous dresses and glittering lights! ...until Ruth is found dead at the popular 'Las Vegas Showgirl Showdown'. In the wake of her best friend's untimely death, Helen is brought in to be interrogated. Local private eye Bobby Flynn is keen to get to the bottom of this case, but nothing is ever cut and dry in sin city.
Writer - Gwen Leonard
Director - Altan Holland
Stage Manager - Ruth Egan
Cast
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Helen - Natasha Gannon
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Ruth - Alexis Carey
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Bobby - Cael Carey Bolton
Lighting & Sound Designer - Saphire Gilfoyle & Alfie Hammilton
Sets/ Props - Rachel King
Costumes - Heather McKenzie
The Weight of a Name
In the final days of the Roman Republic, Brutus is torn between loyalty to Caesar and duty to Rome as well as those he loves. Haunted by legacy and driven by those around him, he must decide what it truly means to bear his name and what price he is willing to pay.
Writer - Cassia Donner
Director - Robin King
Stage manager - Sananthaa Senthamaraikannan
Cast
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Lucius - Cael Carey Bolton
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Marcus Brutus - Giorgos Fetsis
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Gaius Cassius - Peter Garvey
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Caesar - Winter Mannix
Sound, lights, costumes and set - Robin King
An Litir Nach Léitear
Bláthnaid de Brún a young woman from the Gaeltacht of Connemara is being questioned as a suspect in her mother's murder. The police are certain that Bláthnaid committed the crime as she and her mother where the only people in the house that night however, Bláthnaid is convinced there is something much more mythological is at play and that the banshee visited them that night. As a letter written by Bláthnaid reveals a strained relationship we are left with one question, was it Bláthnaid or the banshee.
Writer - Ava McGrath
Director - Ben O’Connor
Cast
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Eoin Conroy as Officer Burke
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Alexis Carey as Irish Bláthnaid
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Emma Bannigan as English Bláthnaid
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Jaimie Donovan as Máire
Lighting & Sound Designer - Meabh Stephens
Filmsoc Collab
2025 National Theatre Live recording of The Importance of Being Earnest.
Where: D'Arcy Thompson Theatre
When: Wed 18th March 7pm
A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
Being sensible can be excessively boring. At least Jack thinks so.
While assuming the role of dutiful guardian in the country, he lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy takes on a similar facade.
Unfortunately, living a double life has its drawbacks, especially when it comes to love. Hoping to impress two eligible ladies, the gentlemen find themselves caught in a web of lies they must carefully navigate.
Max Webster (Donmar’s Macbeth; Life of Pi) directs a joyful and flamboyant reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy. Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; Doctor Who) is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) and Hugh Skinner (W1A; Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) in this hilarious story of identity, impersonation and romance.
Writers Soc Collab
Readings, bring along your work for a reading and improv and poetry welocme.
Date: Wednesday March 18th
Time 7pm - 9pm
Venue: CSB 1009
Book Club Collab
Discussion about books inspired by theatre and vice versa
Date: Thursday March 19th
Time 7pm - 9pm
Venue: AC215
Radio Play Series
The Gifford Girls
On air 9am to 11am March 17th on Flirt FM 101.3 FM.
REVISITING THE RISING
The 1916 rising was the seminal event in the establishment of the Irish State. Every child in the land could recite the names of the seven signatories of the Proclamation. Most of us know the actual events of the rising, itself, and its tragic climax. However little is known of the men themselves and practically nothing is known of the women at the centre of the event. This production sets out to turn the traditional treatments on their head. While dealing accurately with the events we look in depth at the mood and atmosphere of the city during the years leading up to the rebellion. We look intently at the tiny bohemian community of writers, artists, poets and intellectuals that developed around The Abbey Theatre in its early years. These men and women formed a radical vision of a communal Gealicised Ireland, took control of the Fenian dominated IRB, The Irish Volunteers and who launched in Easter 1916 the most violent revolt since 1798.
The story is told in drama form over five episodes, each of 25 minutes duration. The dramatis personae features Pearse, Plunkett, MacDonagh, Constance Markviecz, Micheal Collins, James Connolly, Jim Larkin and sisters Grace, Nelly. Muriel, Sydney (John) and their mother Isabella Gifford. The drama is centred on the activities of Nelly and Grace Gifford and the growing physical and spiritual intimacy between Grace and Joe Plunkett which culminated in their marriage in Kilmainham jail hours before his execution.
First broadcast on Galway Bay FM, Easter week 2016 to celebrate the centenary of the Rising, Now being broadcast on Flirt FM t celebrate 110 anniversary of the rising, Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland..