Productions

World Premiere.

Two titled but penniless lovers, Lady Filmot and Lord Stewkly, plot to seduce two rich, guileless youths, Edward and Lucy, who are themselves in love and planning to marry.

The School for Scandal, Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s play, was presented by Rough Magic in the Gaiety Theatre and went on to tour the country.

World Premiere.

Mrs. Sweeney deals with a family in the aftermath of their daughter’s death from AIDS, brought about by drug abuse. Buoyed up by laughter and grief, Lil Sweeney gathers her friends round her and copes, while her husband retreats more and more into a private world obsessed by pigeons. The play charts the disintegration of the family home in the face of insurmountable odds.

World Premiere.

It is Halloween Night and George has invited his closest friends to a remote holiday cottage on Ireland’s west coast. While they wait for him to arrive, the four unhappy couples whether the storm and fend off the floodtide – with sex, drink, blood, bondage, millennial angst and routine bad behaviour. When their only visitor enters bearing bad news, the bizarre revelations and gothic events spiral to a cataclysmic finale.

August 1798: charismatic rebel Henry Joy McCracken is on the run and asking himself how it all happened.

The time is 1974. The place is Belfast. Four people are gathered together by an accident of fate in a Belfast working-class parlour house where, against the background of the Ulster Workers’ Council Strike, they work out their relationships to each other, to the world outside, to the past.

World Premiere.

Dan, a 14-year-old with a functioning age of 8, Ber who is up the walls worried that she may be pregnant by Noel even though they only did it standing up, Dolores, one of the world’s good girls who basks in the reflected glory of Dolores, her older, sexier sister, and Cactus who is the bane of everybody’s life, have a summer full of new experiences that will change them forever.

World Premiere.

Auntie Kitty is coming to stay for a few days. She’s an ex-showband singer – stylish, extrovert and a little scatty. Mark, a liberal journalist, is not impressed, he wants to spend more time with Carol. Soon, Carol is trying to cope with Kitty’s foibles, Mark’s derision and everybody is trying to cope with Kitty’s friend Bill.

World Premiere.

Joey, the much loved daughter, arrives home to Dublin airport where she is met by parents Julie and Frank, a dream couple of the ’60s who have since fallen on leaner times, and her brother Shane, the clever child turned no-hoper. At the airport, they meet Chris Farrell, a blast from the past, a lonely alcoholic who has been stripped of his pilot wings and is looking for an antidote to numbness. Back at the Fox homestead dissatisfaction is added to old wounds and large quantities of duty free, as Joey’s long-awaited return begins to shatter what’s left of the family idyll.

Presented in the Project Arts Centre for the Dublin Theatre Festival 1993.