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Productions
The Loved Ones
World Premiere.
Co-production with the Gate Theatre as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival.
View ProductionFreefalling
World Premiere.
Co-production with Lime Tree | Belltable and in association with Fidget Feet Aerial Dance.
View ProductionTonic on Tour
National Tour.
World premiere production in association with Solstice Arts Centre and Kilkenny Arts Festival.
View ProductionHecuba – Event Cinema
Irish Premiere.
A dynamic filmed version of Rough Magic’s critically acclaimed theatre production of Hecuba by Marina Carr.
View ProductionThe Tempest
A new take on Shakespeare’s classic; a dark comedy filled with magic, mischief, music and romance.
Co-production with Kilkenny Arts Festival
View ProductionRough Weekend
A showcase of new writing and big ideas. Featuring stagings, readings and discussions, offering glimpses and impressions of 14 new never-before-seen works, commissioned by Rough Magic as part of the COMPASS Programme.
View ProductionAll the Angels
Irish Premiere.
All the Angels by Nick Drake tells the story of the world’s most popular choral work, Handel’s Messiah, from its fraught birth to its glorious outcome; a tale about the complicated, comedic business of putting on a show and the transformative power of music. Co-produced with Smock Alley Theatre.
View ProductionGlue
World Premiere.
Co-production with Axis, Ballymun of Glue by Robbie O’Connor; a tense psychological thriller. Presented as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 2021.
View ProductionTonic
World Premiere.
Tonic by Fionn Foley. A spectacular new medicine show infused with a wild, genre-spanning live score and staged with dystopian panache.
View ProductionSolar Bones
World Premiere.
Solar Bones is Mike McCormack’s multi-award-winning elegy to the merits of an ordinary life, spoken from an intermediate state between memory and nothingness. Kilkenny Arts Festival in partnership with Rough Magic, in association with Watergate Theatre.
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