History, Heritage & Culture

by Patricia Burke Brogan (Confined) About the play : Set in 1963, in a convent laundry at St Paul's Home for Penitent women in Kilmacha, Ireland. Eclipsed explores the practices and work in the church laundry.

by Martin McDonagh (Confined) About the Play: Set in the mountains of Connemara, Co Galway, the play tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain, lonely woman, and Mag her manipulating ageing mother , whose interference in Marueens's first and possibly final chance of a loving relationship sets in motion a train of […]

by Samuel Beckett (Open),  About the Play: Beckett's classic play is set on an empty country road near a withered tree. The tragicomic, almost clownish, Vladimir and Estragon are waiting for Godot. Were they here on the previous day? Do they know Godot? Would they recognise him if he arrived? They are joined by Pozzo […]

by Rebecca Lenkiiewicz, (Open) About the Play: Power, Money Morality. In a tight knit community , a shocking discovery comes to light and threatens the lifeblood of the town. Truth and honour are pitched against wild ambition and corruption in Ibsen's emotional maelstrom.

Comedy , by Tommy Marren (Confined), About the Play: Madge Molloy, hard bitten and bitter because of her husbands Tom Molloy's disappearance some 43 years earlier. The story unfolds over a two day period with hilarious antics of all and the return of Tom to the home that he left. Will Madge have her revenge […]

by Philip Goulding (Open), About the Play: Warm, funny and moving "A Fine  Bright Day " explores love set on the edge of an English coastal area, where lives are reshaped by a chance meeting with an exotic stranger.

by Martin McDonagh ( Confined) , About the Play: Set in Leannane Co Glaway "The Lonesome West" is a dark comedy and part of the Martin McDonagh Trilogy in where we find the forever battling brothers Coleman and Valene drinking and fighting their petty squabblings  spiral into vicious and bloody carnage.

by Brian Friel (Open) , About the Play: Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg Gareth O'Donnell has accepted his aunt's invitation to come to Philidelphia. On the eve of his departure, despite the fantasies Gar entertains of life in America, all it would take to stop him leaving would be one […]