Idyll
A captivating short play about rural Britain, premiered by Pentabus Theatre in 2021.
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twins
A short play about twins whose lives diverge, first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2015.
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Before You Say Anything
A play that questions how everyone can be safe at the same time. A time-travelling set of interweaving stories exploring injustice, freedom and bravery.
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Whiff Whaff
A savagely funny short play about attitudes to disability and mental health.
Boo
A powerful and beautifully observed short play for one actor, exploring the impact of the newly established National Health Service on working people's lives in the 1940s and 50s.
Deirdre Kinahan: Shorts
Five Plays
Five short plays by the award-winning Irish playwright, full of warmth, humour and irrepressible characters.
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A short play in which five women reflect on their lives as prostitutes on the streets of Dublin.
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Bogboy
A short play in which two lost souls – a young heroin addict and a reclusive middle-aged farmer – discover a budding friendship in the bogs of Meath.
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Hue & Cry
A short play in which two Dublin cousins, Damian and Kevin, are reunited for a family funeral in a highly charged encounter full of disillusion, denial and dark laughter.
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An Old Song, Half Forgotten
A short play about the life and soul of an older actor living in care with Alzheimer's disease.
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Wild Notes
A play exploring the impact of colonialism through a meeting between Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave and abolitionist who visited Ireland in the 1840s, and a young Irishwoman hoping to emigrate to the country he's running from.
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Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha
By Natal'ya Vorozhbit Translated by Sasha DugdaleA powerful play about the shattering impact of war, and the astonishing resilience of those living through it, written by one of Ukraine's leading playwrights.
Published in volume Voices from Ukraine: Two PlaysPussycat in Memory of Darkness
By Neda Nezhdana Translated by John FarndonA powerful play about the shattering impact of war, and the astonishing resilience of those living through it, written by one of Ukraine's leading playwrights.
Published in volume Voices from Ukraine: Two PlaysRaging: Embargo
The War of Independence
A poetic, bloody and heroic tale of industrial action and civic resistance, part of Deirdre Kinahan's trilogy of landmark plays commemorating seven years of warfare in Ireland.
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Raging: Wild Sky
The Rising
A play exploring the extraordinary energy and complexity of events in Ireland in the lead up to the Easter Rising of 1916.
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Little Dolls
By Nancy HarrisA short play about a woman seeking help from a therapist to overcome a traumatic episode in her past.
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Mojo Mickybo
An unsentimental portrayal of innocence betrayed by communal hatred in Belfast during the 1970s.
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Phoenix
A powerful story of fire and destruction, self-deceit and the corrosion of trust.
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