Sarah Baxter

Druid is delighted to announce the live stream of Once Upon a Bridge, a new play by Sonya Kelly. The production will be directed by Sara Joyce and will premiere at The Mick Lally Theatre in February for four performances. Audiences across Ireland and beyond can watch this new play from their own home.

The Mercury Theatre Colchester and Josef Weinberger Plays have announced the participants joining their new Mercury Playwrights development programme, designed to nurture creative talent in the East of England, which has taken a considerable hit from Covid-19 uncertainties.

Writers Peter McGann & John Morton have let loose The Roaring Banshees, part two of their Ripping Yarn Trilogy. The trilogy celebrates the centenary years of Ireland's independence. Part one: The Hellfire Squad successfully premiered in 2016 and told the tale of Micheal Collins' assassins. They are currently working on their final installment, The Folklore Commission. The Roaring Banshees are a fictionalised branch of Cumann na mBan, an Irish republican women's paramilitary organisation active during the Irish War of Independence and Civil War. Outlawed by the Irish Free State and sorely betrayed by both the Irish and English factions, the clan of 7 cross the pond and set up shop in Chicago.

One of the highlights of Dublin's bustling summer calendar is the Festival of Curiosity, an annual international festival celebrating 4 days of science, art, design, and technology. This year one of the gems amongst the 32 events is the tender and cerebral play currently running at the Smock Alley Theatre, These Stupid Things. 

This week we are very excited for the opening of our Christmas production, Dubliners Women, an adaptation of Joyce's Dubliners, focusing on the women's stories - The Boarding House, Clay & Eveline.

Alice Malseed is exemplifiable of millennials burnt out by their late twenties, their hopes dashed in the bust. What can be made of this world stung into paralysis?

The return of the Spiegeltent lends greater diversity to the Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival, and may usher in a new maturity in time for its 21st birthday.

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