NASC presents a Rough Magic and Gate Theatre production.
After a critically acclaimed world premiere at the Gate Theatre as part of the 2023 Dublin Theatre Festival, Erica Murray’s The Loved Ones embarks on a nationwide tour.
In a remote farmhouse in West Clare, Nell is preparing to scatter her late son’s ashes with his grieving wife. Meanwhile, an American tourist settles in for what she expects to be a peaceful countryside retreat.
But when a young woman arrives at the cottage unexpectedly, the weekend takes an surprising and darkly comic turn. As tensions rise and secrets are revealed, these four strangers are forced into an uneasy reckoning with the past – and each other.
Hailed by The Irish Times as “wonderful, witty, assured and entertaining” and praised by The Irish Independent as “a glorious personality clash extravaganza”, The Loved Ones is a sharp, deeply moving, and wickedly funny new Irish play about motherhood, grief, and the families we find when life doesn’t go to plan.
Don’t miss the play that critics are calling ‘hilarious and heart-wrenching’—touring nationwide for a limited time only. Book now!
Tickets for all performances available now:
Buy Tickets: Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick: 17-19 April 2025
Buy Tickets: Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise: 23 April 2025
Buy Tickets: Backstage Theatre, Longford: 26 April 2025
Buy Tickets: An Grianan, Letterkenny: 29 April 2025
Buy Tickets: Black Box, Galway: 2-3 May 2025
Buy Tickets: glór, Ennis: 7 May 2025
Buy Tickets: Siamsa Tire, Kerry: 10 May 2025
Buy Tickets: Pavilion Theatre, Dublin: 14-18 May 2025
Here what our audiences in 2023 had to say about The Loved Ones:
