Playography is currently undergoing an essential rebuild, technical update and maintenance. All updates are on hold until the rebuild is complete. We are continuing to work hard in the background and are still accepting submissions which will be complete in Autumn 2023. For more information visit ITI's website.

PEOPLE

BARRY MCGOVERN

1948 -

Barry McGovern was born in Dublin. He has had a long association with the work of Samuel Beckett, he appeared in Sean Ó Mordha's film Samuel Beckett - Silence to Silence - and an hour-long 80th birthday tribute to Beckett broadcast on RTE. He performed in the Gate Beckett Festival which went on to be produced as a series of short films. He has been a member of the Abbey Theatre Company and the RTE Players.

ADAPTATIONS

Play Title Playwright
I'll Go On Gerry Dukes Barry McGovern Samuel Beckett
Watt Barry McGovern Samuel Beckett

ACTOR

Play Title Playwright
A Cry From Heaven Vincent Woods
A Light In the Sky Donal Giltinan
Ag Ealaín In Éirinn Antoine Ó Flatharta
Ariel Marina Carr
Buddleia Paul Mercier
Cúis Gháire Chugainn Tomás Tóibín Armand Salacrou
Dancing at Lughnasa Brian Friel
Gale Day Eugene McCabe
I'll Go On Gerry Dukes Barry McGovern Samuel Beckett
Medea Kenneth McLeish Euripides
Oedipus Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy Sophocles
Pocléim Liam Mac Uistín
Séadna Tomás Mac Anna
Sky Road Jim Nolan
Snake Eye and the Diamond Lin Ford
Solemn Mass for a Full Moon in Summer Bryan Delaney Michel Tremblay
Speak of the Devil Fergus Linehan (1)
Spokesong Stewart Parker
Tá Crut Nua ar na Sléibhte Micheál Mac Liammóir Liam Ó Briain Micheál Mac Liammóir
The Blue Macushla Tom Murphy (1)
The Burial at Thebes Seamus Heaney Sophocles
The Death of Humpty Dumpty Graham Reid
The Half Promised Land Maeve Binchy
The Happy Go Likeable Man Jim Sheridan Molière
The Home Place Brian Friel
The J. Arthur Maginnis Story Tom Murphy (1)
The Serpent Prince Lin Ford
The Shaws of Synge Street John O'Donovan (1)
Una Pooka Michael Harding
Watt Barry McGovern Samuel Beckett
Woyzeck in Winter Stephen Clark Conall Morrison Georg Büchner

MUSICAL ADVISOR

Play Title Playwright
Open Ended Prescription Leland Bardwell

MUSIC BY

Play Title Playwright
Wonder Ponder Time
Devised by the company with contributions from Pat Ingoldsby, Bryan Murray, Barry McGovern and Noel McFarlane.

LYRICS BY

Play Title Playwright
The J. Arthur Maginnis Story Tom Murphy (1)