Productions

The time is 1974. The place is Belfast. Four people are gathered together by an accident of fate in a Belfast working-class parlour house where, against the background of the Ulster Workers’ Council Strike, they work out their relationships to each other, to the world outside, to the past.

World Premiere.

Dan, a 14-year-old with a functioning age of 8, Ber who is up the walls worried that she may be pregnant by Noel even though they only did it standing up, Dolores, one of the world’s good girls who basks in the reflected glory of Dolores, her older, sexier sister, and Cactus who is the bane of everybody’s life, have a summer full of new experiences that will change them forever.

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Auntie Kitty is coming to stay for a few days. She’s an ex-showband singer – stylish, extrovert and a little scatty. Mark, a liberal journalist, is not impressed, he wants to spend more time with Carol. Soon, Carol is trying to cope with Kitty’s foibles, Mark’s derision and everybody is trying to cope with Kitty’s friend Bill.

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Joey, the much loved daughter, arrives home to Dublin airport where she is met by parents Julie and Frank, a dream couple of the ’60s who have since fallen on leaner times, and her brother Shane, the clever child turned no-hoper. At the airport, they meet Chris Farrell, a blast from the past, a lonely alcoholic who has been stripped of his pilot wings and is looking for an antidote to numbness. Back at the Fox homestead dissatisfaction is added to old wounds and large quantities of duty free, as Joey’s long-awaited return begins to shatter what’s left of the family idyll.

Presented in the Project Arts Centre for the Dublin Theatre Festival 1993.

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The story of two sisters who get away from it all on a camping weekend. Deborah hopes to heal old wounds while Mary yearns for the comfort of a hotel bar. The evening unfolds with Blue Moon cocktails, recriminations and the ghost of Elvis…

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The Macken Family are hell-bent on celebrating once again the dreaded Christmas dinner. The turkey is determined to be cooked and eaten, but the two dead family dogs decide to put a stop to the Christmas madness. The rat in the garden and the robin on the doorstop only make matters worse. Christmas will never be the same again.

World Premiere.

A satirical rap-cabaret featuring Eamon DeValera on such subjects as the liberal agenda and the rural/urban divide.

World Premiere.

Seven old friends from the class of ’83 get together to talk about old times. But nostalgia is no match for disillusionment.

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