Productions

By Bertolt Brecht (in a new version by Howard Brenton).

It’s 1941. Europe is at war and espionage is the front line. In Dublin, ‘the Emergency’ is in full swing! As the rest of the world gets on with the small matter of the Second World War, the city’s lights burn flagrantly and Europe’s intellectual elite have come to play. But a radio requests show has drawn the attention of M15 and a diffident young code-breaker is dispatched to Dublin to determine which side neutral Ireland is really on.

World Premiere

Eddie and his sons work nights. Bren (the love child) surfs the net alone. Andy (planned) can’t confirm the whereabouts of his girlfriend and son. Kev (the mistake) isn’t throwing his money around like the IT whizzkid they take him for. A duty visit to their mother requires them to act like model siblings; but confusion around her illness, which hospital she is in, and references to her mysterious good news become the fuel for this dark comedy of a disintegrating family.

Irish Premiere.

The story of an extraordinary relationship between a spirited, lonely old woman and a recalcitrant young dosser

Follow the fortunes of two couples as they stride, stagger and stumble through life in Dublin at the start of the new millennium.

Irish Premiere.

In the autumn of 1941, at a critical point in the second world war, German physicist Werner Heisenberg paid a strange visit to his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. To this day, speculation has raged over precisely what they discussed. For these two former friends were among a handful of scientists around the globe who could unlock the secret of nuclear warfare.

World Premiere.

The Sweeney family has long been a dumping ground for generations of suppressed bitterness, vexed relationships, tragic misunderstandings and terrible unmentioned secrets. It is the women who carry the burden in their hearts, putting on a brave face for the outside world. But, in old age, confusion and diminished inhibition can transform into lucidity and honesty, which allow uncomfortable truths to blow their lid and come tumbling out.

Irish Premiere

Irish Premiere.

A haunting, humorous and deeply touching drama exploring love, infidelity, fate and how easily we can misinterpret the past.

World Premiere.

A property developer on the make, a pair of rural hucksters, a degradation-driven TD and a supporting cast of thieves, punks, hookers and cannibals are thrown together on a Dublin street on the day of the Pope’s visit in 1979. Twenty years on, that street and those characters are barely recognisable, all slicked up and ready for the millennium.