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Rough Magic Theatre Company

OVERVIEW

  • Description

    Rough Magic is a national, independent theatre company, delivering a comprehensive programme of new Irish writing, reimagined classics, and contemporary international plays, to audiences across Ireland and beyond. Our work is expansive, playful and whatever its form, focused on the moment. Rough Magic provides an unexpected angle to the mainstream and an anchor to the emerging generation. Since its foundation in 1984, Rough Magic has established itself as a creative entity and a valued institution; operating as an ensemble across the spectrum of scale and style, offering fresh perspectives and engaging audiences with the qualities that define us - wit, subversion, intellectual rigour, and free artistic expression. The company is an industry pioneer in artist development, notably through our SEEDS programme for emerging artists, through which many leading theatre makers were introduced to the industry. We believe in showcasing and platforming theatre practitioners at all stages, supporting them to take artistic risks. Our COMPASS strategy is designed to seek out, commission, develop and produce an ambitious programme of new plays and adaptations by emerging and established writers, collaborating with producing partners across Ireland to reach greater audiences and new destinations. Awards include: a record number of four Irish Times Theatre Awards for Best Production (Copenhagen, Improbable Frequency, The Taming of the Shrew, Don Carlos); London Time Out Award; two Edinburgh Fringe First Awards and the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Ensemble for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Most recently Rough Magic's production of Solar Bones won Best Actor for Stanley Townsend and Best Director for Lynne Parker at the Irish Times Theatre Awards.

  • Address

    12 Parliament Street, Temple Bar ,Dublin 2,D02 HV 05

    Email

    info@roughmagic.ie

    Website

    www.roughmagic.ie

    Phone

    + 353 (0)1 671 9278

    Artistic Director

    Lynne Parker

    Executive Director

    Gemma Reeves

    Producer

    Sara Cregan

    Associate Producer

    Clara Purcell

    Literary Manager

    Karin McCully

    Associate Director

    Dominic O'Brien

New Irish Plays Produced By Rough Magic Theatre Company

Play Title Playwright
A Mug's Game Molière
Adapted by Rough Magic Theatre Company
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Arthur Riordan James Joyce
Bat The Father Rabbit The Son Donal O'Kelly
Boomtown Arthur Riordan Declan Hughes Pom Boyd
Cleft Fergal McElherron
Danti-Dan Gina Moxley
Digging For Fire Declan Hughes
Down Onto Blue Pom Boyd
Famished Castle Hilary Fannin
Halloween Night Declan Hughes
Hidden Charges Arthur Riordan
How to Keep an Alien Sonya Kelly
I Can't Get Started Declan Hughes
Improbable Frequency Arthur Riordan Bell Helicopter
A musical with Book and Lyrics by Arthur Riordan, and Musical Composition and Sound Design by Bell Helicopter.
Is This About Sex? Christian O'Reilly (1)
Jezebel Mark Cantan
Love and a Bottle Declan Hughes George Farquhar
Adapted from the original play by George Farquhar.
Melt Shane Mac an Bhaird
Midden Morna Regan
Mrs. Sweeney Paula Meehan
New Morning Declan Hughes
Peer Gynt Arthur Riordan Henrik Ibsen

A new version with live music by Tarab

Phaedra Hilary Fannin Ellen Cranitch Jean-Philippe Rameau

Inspired in part by Jean Racine's 'Phèdre' (1677) and Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera 'Hippolyte et Aricie' (1733), both themselves drawn from Euripides.

Shiver Declan Hughes
Sodome, My Love Olwen Fouéré Laurent Gaudé
Solar Bones Michael West Mike McCormack
Solemn Mass for a Full Moon in Summer Bryan Delaney Michel Tremblay
Translated from the original play by Michel Tremblay.
Take Me Away Gerald Murphy
The Bonefire Rosemary Jenkinson
The Dogs Donal O'Kelly
The Emergency Session Arthur Riordan
The House Keeper Morna Regan
The Sugar Wife Elizabeth Kuti
The Train Arthur Riordan Bill Whelan
The Whisperers Elizabeth Kuti Frances Sheridan
Frances Sheridan's 'A Trip to Bath' as completed by Elizabeth Kuti.
The Woman in White Declan Hughes Wilkie Collins
Adapted from the novel by Wilkie Collins
Words of Advice for Young People Ioanna Anderson