Productions

World Premiere.

Haunted by the presence of hard-boiled detective Daniel Webster, whose story must yet be told, Hammett finds himself trapped in an imaginary world of his own making.

Irish Premiere.

Jimmy and the other regulars waste hours with their cues until Jimmy has a bust up with his girlfriend and embarks on a spree of violence.

Irish Premiere.

How can you survive in a society where making a living means making a killing? If you are smart enough to realise that wealth and power lies in the hands of the few, kept of the many, what do you do? Try and live according to some absolute scheme of virtue, which involves serious financial hardship? Or turn vicious and corrupt, and make a sizeable killing yourself?

World Premiere.

Rabbit is a self-made haulage magnate. He is obsessed with memories. He undertakes a voyage to rediscover what he feels he has lost. His father Bat, former Easter Rising rebel and pawn shop assistant, plays an increasing role in the voyage as Rabbit delves deeper into his heart, into history, into Dublin, seeking his lost moorings.

Irish Premiere.

A fascinating and often disturbing study of the wasteland of T.S. Elliot’s marriage to Vivienne Haigh Wood.

Irish Premiere

Brien’s imagination starts to produce creatures out of the woodwork and nightmares out of Shakespeare. Suddenly the playwrights finds himself in his own play, a fantastic farce where the borderline between what is real and what is imagined dissolves, walls open up, and an old wardrobe becomes a magical box.

An experimental, semi-expressionist tragedy depicting the journey of two young fooballing heroes from the slums of inner city Dublin to the unspeakable horrors of the Western Front – and back again.

Quinn is an undertaker and part-time magician.

World Premiere.

The Woman in White is an adaptation of Wilkie Collins’s novel of the same name. Written in 1860, the novel is a mystery thriller with an intricate plot of confused identities and unsuspected surprises. This stage adaptation remains true to the high melodrama of Collins’s original and to the Victorian period.