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Deirdre Kinahan

Deirdre Kinahan is an award-winning playwright and a member of Aosdána, Ireland's elected body of outstanding artists.

Her plays include: An Old Song, Half Forgotten (Abbey Theatre, 2023); Outrage (Fishamble, 2022); The Visit (Draiocht, Dublin Theatre Festival 2021); The Saviour (Landmark Productions, 2021); In the Middle of the Fields (Solas Nua DC, 2021); Embargo (Fishamble 2020); Dear Ireland (Abbey Theatre, 2020); The Bloodied Field (Abbey Theatre 2020); Rathmines Road (Fishamble and Abbey Theatre, 2018); Crossings (Pentabus Theatre, 2018); The Unmanageable Sisters, an adaptation of Michel Tremblay's Les Belles Soeurs (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 2018); Wild Sky (Dublin, 2016); Spinning (Fishamble, 2014); Halcyon Days (Solstice Arts Centre, Co. Meath, and Dublin Theatre Festival, 2012); and Moment (Solstice Arts Centre, Co. Meath, 2009; Bush Theatre, London, 2011).

In 2024, she and actor Bryan Murray were jointly awarded the inaugural Pratchett Prize for challenging the stigma of Alzheimer's Disease, for Kinahan's play An Old Song, Half Forgotten.

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Moment

Moment

By Deirdre Kinahan

An explosive drama about how one terrible moment can change lives irrevocably.

Halcyon Days

Halcyon Days

By Deirdre Kinahan

An uplifting, bittersweet drama set in a nursing home, celebrating friendship and the human spirit.

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Salad Day

Salad Day

By Deirdre Kinahan

A short play about an elderly couple who, trapped in a nursing home, plot a daring escape into the sunshine.

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    Spinning

    Spinning

    By Deirdre Kinahan

    A contemporary tragedy set in small-town Ireland, by one of Ireland's most exciting playwrights.

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    The Unmanageable Sisters

    The Unmanageable Sisters

    By Michel Tremblay Adapted by Deirdre Kinahan

    A funny and furious new version of Michel Tremblay’s fêted Québécoise comedy, Les Belles-Soeurs.

    Crossings

    Crossings

    By Deirdre Kinahan

    A play with live music, waltzing and unexpected connections, exploring how we return, resettle and adapt.

    Rathmines Road

    Rathmines Road

    By Deirdre Kinahan

    Fraught, funny, and ferocious, a play that challenges the cultural response to accusations of sexual assault.

    Raging: Three Plays/Seven Years of Warfare in Ireland

    Raging: Three Plays/Seven Years of Warfare in Ireland

    Wild Sky, Embargo & Outrage

    By Deirdre Kinahan

    A trilogy of landmark plays - Wild Sky, Embargo and Outrage - commemorating seven years of warfare in Ireland, from the 1916 Easter Rising to the Civil War which began in 1922.

    Deirdre Kinahan: Shorts

    Deirdre Kinahan: Shorts

    Five Plays

    By Deirdre Kinahan

    Five short plays by the award-winning Irish playwright, full of warmth, humour and irrepressible characters.

    The Saviour

    The Saviour

    By Deirdre Kinahan

    A play charting the extraordinary shift in social, political and religious life in Ireland over the past thirty years.

    Raging: Outrage

    Raging: Outrage

    The Civil War

    By Deirdre Kinahan

    A play exploring women's roles in the Irish revolutionary wars, part of Deirdre Kinahan's trilogy of landmark plays commemorating seven years of warfare in Ireland.

    Raging: Wild Sky

    Raging: Wild Sky

    The Rising

    By Deirdre Kinahan

    A play exploring the extraordinary energy and complexity of events in Ireland in the lead up to the Easter Rising of 1916.