Productions

Assassins was presented by the Rough Magic SEEDS in the Project Arts Centre. In America’s short history, nine men and women have killed or tried to kill the American president. Assassins asks what hunger drove these people to do what they did? What binds them together? Could you be tempted to shoot the president? “What a wonder is … Continued

Seven college friends on the brink of turning 30 get together for a reunion. But nostalgia is gradually eroded as the drink loosens tongues and the true events of the past emerge with savage and humorous consequences.

World Premiere

Alan and Robin are a go-getting couple who want to spice up their sex life.  Jezebel is a woe-fretting singleton who’s looking to get one.  Put them together and the solution seems simple.  But what appears to be the answer to all their problems turns out to be just the start of them.

Zurich 1917: artists and exiles take refuge from the Great War in neutral Switzerland. Joyce is writing Ulysses and Lenin is planning a revolution. Stoppard creates a brilliant fantasia around the real-life incident of Joyce deciding to stage Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.

World Premiere

A young woman at the end of her tether is faced with homelessness when she loses her job and the bank threatens to repossess her home. Desperate, she breaks into the house of a wealthy woman, but before long she realises that she has disturbed a hornet’s nest of unimagined proportions.

Peer Gynt, the boy who never grew up, the escapologist extraordinaire. Caught between his angel and his demon, haunted by the women he loved, lost and betrayed, catapulted through a life built on fantasy, he is finally forced to face himself.

The Importance of Being Earnest is arguably the greatest screwball comedy ever written, and Wilde’s masterpiece still has the broadest appeal of any play in the Irish canon. Rough Magic’s production in The Gaiety Theatre has an unexpected twist: in a new interpretation by Stockard Channing, the battle-axe Lady Bracknell becomes a sharp-witted American beauty. As she observes, “When I married … Continued

World Premiere

The timeless story of Phaedra’s dark obsession with her stepson is placed in a contemporary Ireland that has become a fertile playing field for the capricious gods.

World Premiere

The sky breaks, the rain falls. The downpour slowly awakens a woman buried in salt for centuries, the only survivor of Sodome, a city once filled with joy and excess, freedom and sensuality. Here, now amongst us, she begins to speak. This is her story…

On a hot summer’s night in Montréal, eleven people stand on their balconies by the light of the full moon and tell their stories of guilt, grief and heartbreak. A provocative and emotional play about love, sex, faith and forgiveness by one of Canada’s great playwrights.