
We are happy to announce our pre-Athlone run. Dalkey Town Hall 22nd and 23rd April at 8pm for tickets click the button below
We are happy to announce our pre-Athlone run. Dalkey Town Hall 22nd and 23rd April at 8pm for tickets click the button below
The story of Hester Swane, an Irish traveller with a deep and unearthly connection to her land.
Tormented by the memory of a mother who deserted her, Hester is once again betrayed, this time by the father of her child, the man she loves. On the brink of despair, she embarks on a terrible journey of vengeance as the secrets of her tangled history are revealed. Director, Emma Jane Nulty says, ‘this is a play that speaks to audiences now. Identity is a core part of who we are. In Hester, we see the struggles of someone trying to understand theirs and how other people decide whether we belong or don’t belong. Carr’s By the Bog of Cats is an extraordinary journey that blends the mythic and the real, the dark and the comic.’
Taking place in the Dalkey Town Hall on Wednesday 22nd to Saturday 25th February at 8pm. Not suitable for children.
Bookings online at Eventbrite
Telephone Bookings 086 4568608
Tickets also available in the Town Hall, Dalkey Ticket price: €15/€10 (Students/unwaged)
Dalkey Players is an award winning theatre group; having won the RTE All Ireland Drama Festival in 2017, ‘By the Bog of Cats’ is their entry to this year’s Full Length Drama Circuit playing in Roscommon, Ballinamore, Cavan, Shercock, Claregalway, Claremorris and Clare.
What can you achieve in 3 minutes in Stage Time with 20 Plays, 20 Directors, 20 Actors?
Answer: An hour and a half of funny and heart warming drama.
Featuring well known playwrights such as Joseph O’Connor, Ardal O’Hanlon, Deirdre Kinahan this is an evening not to miss!
Dalkey Players brings this rich and exciting production of
Tiny Plays for Dalkey
The Studio, dlrLeXicon, Dun Laoghaire
on 29th & 30th November and 1st & 2nd December
at 8pm.
With special thanks to Fishamble, the New Play Company
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Dalkey Players present Edward Albee’s Zoo Story directed by Gerry Clabby, Saturday 11th June dlr LexIcon studio, staring Simon Cunningham and Conall O’Bealóin.
The Zoo Story
A summer afternoon in Central Park, New York City. Like every other Sunday, Peter is sitting on his favourite bench reading a book, when he is approached by Jerry who strikes up a conversation. This is an encounter that will change their lives forever. In this one-act play, celebrated playwright Edward Albee explores different lives in an urban metropolis, our deep need to communicate and connect with other people, and the catastrophic consequences that can ensue if we fail in this endeavour.
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Pre Athlone performance Dalkey Town Hall 7th-8th May 8pm.
Eurydice, Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld where she meets her dead father, encounters the Lord of the Underworld and struggles to remember her husband, Orpheus.
Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice is a modern re-telling of the Orpheus myth through the eyes of Eurydice. A magical, sometimes menacing, dream-like journey of love, loss and memory.
Eurydice, The Power of Memory to Triumph over Death:
In Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl re-imagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love, Orpheus. With contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story.
Sarah Ruhl’s quirky contemporary meditation on a much-mediated-upon story has some of the subliminal potency of music, the head-scratching surprise of a modernist poem and the cockeyed allure of a surrealist painting. It’s pretty funny, too.
Special thanks to:
Fiona Keane and Conall O’Beoláin for their work in the development of this production.
The Cast
Eurydice Sarah Coughlan
Father Alan Nuzum
Orpheus Gearoid Molloy
Big Stone Maria Fitzgerald
Loud Stone Sharon Nealon
Little Stone Alice Meehan
Nasty Interesting Man/
Lord of the Underworld Dermot Byrne
Director and Designer Emma Jane Nulty
The Crew
Stage Management Emma Mulligan & Siobhan Caskie
Lighting Design Barry Donaldson
Technical Design Brian Nutley & Caitríona Connolly
Set Construction Conall O’Beoláin & Brendan Dunne
Sound SFX Julia Crimmins
Sound design and Puppets Emma Jane Nulty
Graphic Design Philip Murphy
Photography Lucy Nuzum Photography
Front of House Donal Ryan & Team
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The play is set in the Overworld and the Underworld. It is broken into 3 Movements and runs continuously.
THERE IS NO INTERVAL
We are delighted to be returning to Dalkey Town Hall 22nd and 23rd February with Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl directed by Emma Jane Nulty