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Citysong

© Ros Kavanagh, production photograph from Citysong, with Daryl McCormack, Dan Monaghan

OVERVIEW

  • Playwright

    Carys D. Coburn 

  • Synopsis

    Citysong is a play. It’s a poem. It’s a chorus of voices showing us three generations of a Dublin family on one day, and it turns out one day holds the entire past. There are teen discos, late night taxis, home nurses, Jewish launderettes, vigilantes, babies, immigrants, seagulls. It’s intimate and sweeping, it’s cerebral and compassionate, it’s joyous and ridiculous. It’s modern day Dublin’s Under Milk Wood via Metamorphoses. (Not the book about the cockroach.) It’s different things at different times, which makes sense seeing as it’s about change. Transformations. Births and deaths, sunderings and returns, time and love.

  • Play Type

    Plays General

    Number Of Acts

    Full-Length

  • Cast Notes

    Each cast member played multiple characters.

Original Production

Original Cast
Performer Amy Conroy
Performer Jade Jordan
Performer Bláithín MacGabhann
Performer Daryl McCormack
Performer Clare McKenna
Performer Dan Monaghan
Production Team
Director Caitríona McLaughlin
Costume Supervisor Siofra Ni Chiardha
Hair & Make-Up Val Sherlock
Set Construction Ger Clancy
Set Construction Artfx Dublin
Publicity Photography Shane Connaughton
Production Photography Ros Kavanagh
Sign Language Interpreter Ali Stewart
Captioning Jen Sinnamon
Audio Description Bríd Ní Ghruagáin
Audio Description Máirín Harte
Producer Jen Coppinger
Production Manager Sally Withnell
Set & Costume Designer Sarah Bacon
Lighting Designer Paul Keogan
Composer & Sound Designer Adrienne Quartly
Associate Sound Designer Jennifer O'Malley
Movement Director Sue Mythen
Voice Director Andrea Ainsworth
Tour Relights Eoin Byrne
Company Stage Manager Bronagh Doherty
Deputy Stage Manager Tara Furlong
Assistant Stage Manager Audrey Rooney
Graphic Design ZOO Digital

Published Scripts

Rights Information

  • Territory

    All Territories

  • Rights Type

    Professional

  • Contact

    The Lisa Richards Agency

  • Address

    108 Upper Leeson Street
    Dublin 4
    Republic of Ireland

  • Phone

    + 353 (0)1 637 5000

  • Email

    info@lisarichards.ie

  • Website

    www.lisarichards.ie

  • Territory

    Ireland and Great Britain

  • Rights Type

    Amateur

  • Contact

    Nick Hern Books

  • Address

    The Glasshouse, 49a Goldhawk Road
    London W12 8QP
    England

  • Phone

    + (44 ) 20 8749 4953

  • Email

    info@nickhernbooks.co.uk

  • Website

    www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

  • Territory

    United States of America

  • Rights Type

    Amateur

  • Contact

    The Lisa Richards Agency

  • Address

    108 Upper Leeson Street
    Dublin 4
    Republic of Ireland

  • Phone

    + 353 (0)1 637 5000

  • Email

    info@lisarichards.ie

  • Website

    www.lisarichards.ie

PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHY RIGHTS INFORMATION

  • Contact

    Ros Kavanagh

  • Email

    ros@roskavanagh.com

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the play's original production programme.