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Passion Machine

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Description

Passion Machine was based in Dublin and was founded in 1984.

The company was a project-based operation, staging only original Irish work, and was committed to a wholly indigenous populist theatre that depicted, challenged and celebrated the contemporary Irish experience.

Plays not listed on Playography include: P (a one night living history tour presented by The Passion Machine in assocation with the Town Hall Theatre, December 2006).

The Passion Machine ceased trading in 2008.

Email

passionmachine2@hotmail.com

Artistic Director

New Irish Plays Produced By Passion Machine

Play Title	Playwright
A Little Bit of Blue	Alan Archbold
Babies and Bathwater	Brendan Gleeson
Between Venus and Mars	Antoine Ó Flatharta
Breaking Up	Brendan Gleeson
Brownbread	Roddy Doyle
Buddleia	Paul Mercier
Dectire	John McArdle
Diarmuid and Gráinne	Paul Mercier
Drowning	Paul Mercier
Fully Recovered	Anto Nolan
Ghost Acreage at Vixen Time	Deirdre Hines
Going Places	Aidan Parkinson
Home	Paul Mercier
It Come Up Sun	Joe O'Byrne
Kitchensink	Paul Mercier
Love Machines	Johnny Hanrahan
Massive Damages	Declan Lynch
Melting Penguins	Gerard Stembridge
Native City	Paul Mercier
Pilgrims	Paul Mercier
Sheep, Shite and Desolation	Nell McCafferty
Spacers	Paul Mercier
Studs	Paul Mercier
The Birdtable	Brendan Gleeson
The Last Potato	Joe O'Byrne
The Man Who Cared Too Much	Frank Shouldice
Too Much Too Young	Anto Nolan
War	Roddy Doyle
Wasters	Paul Mercier
We Ourselves	Paul Mercier
Where the Heart Is	Michael Harding

Premiered In 2020

Theatre for One (and a Little One)

Dear Ireland I

Before You Say Anything

Flights

The Spider's House

Premiered on this day

The Talk of the Town

Premiered 27 Sep 2012

Playwright
Emma Donoghue
Company
HATCH Theatre Company, Landmark Productions

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Irish Theatre Institute
Registered Office: 17 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, D02 F293
Tel: +353 1 670 4906

Registered Charity Number: CHY 20847
Company Registration Number: 338199
VAT Number : IE6358199D