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Companies

Ransom Productions

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Description

The company aimed to produce new writing in a physical, dynamic and highly skilled format.

Writer in residence Richard Dormer won the BBC NI Stewart-Parker Award for new writing for Hurricane, the company's first production and Protestants was shortlisted for a Stewart Parker Award in 2004.

Address

Belfast,Co. Antrim

Artistic Associate

Rachel O'Riordan

Company Manager

Eibhlin de Barra

Writer in Residence

New Irish Plays Produced By Ransom Productions

Play Title	Playwright
A Minute of Your Time	Karl Wallace Richard Dormer
Hurricane	Richard Dormer
National Anthem	Colin Bateman
Protestants	Robert Anthony Welch
Static	Robert Anthony Welch
The Early Bird	Leo Butler
The Gentlemen's Tea-Drinking Society	Richard Dormer
The Half	Richard Dormer
The Winners	Rosemary Jenkinson
This Piece of Earth	Richard Dormer
Transparency	Suzie Miller
Yes So I Said Yes	David Ireland

Premiered In 2021

Distortion

The Saviour

Tonic

Straight to Video

Duck Duck Goose

Premiered on this day

Leave It To The Doctor

Premiered 14 Sep 1959

Playwright
Anne Daly
Company
Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

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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