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Venues

Mermaid Arts Centre

OVERVIEW

Address

Main Street, Bray, Co. Wicklow

Email

director@mermaidartscentre.ie

Website

http://www.mermaidartscentre.ie

Phone

+ 353 (0) 1 272 4030

Artistic Directors

Technical Manager

PR/Marketing Manager

Administrator

Fionnuala Downes

Box Office Phone

+ 353 (0)1 272 4030

Programming Policy

To present the best of national and international artistic practice in dance, theatre, opera, music and visual art, and to provide a forum for local artistic activity.
Mermaid is a receiving venue. Performing arts are programmed three to six months in advance. The gallery is programmed up to 12 months in advance.

New Irish Plays Produced By Mermaid Arts Centre

Play Title	Playwright
A Man in Half	Frances Kay
In Search of Morning	Colm Ó Foghlú Ceaptha ag Colm Ó Foghlú agus curtha le chéile ag Compántas an Bhéil Binn.
Temptress	Philip St. John
The Gift	Kareen Pennefather
The Restoration of Hope	Philip St. John

Adaptations/Translations

Play Title	Adapter/Translator
Eugene Onegin: the Roadshow	Martin Murphy Alexander Pushkin Based on the novel by Alexander Pushkin
Gulliver's Travels	Alice Coghlan Jonathan Swift Adapted from the classic novel, first published in 1726

Premiered In 2022

The Boy Who Never Was

Walking with Ghosts

The Blackwater Lightship

This Sh*t Happens All the Time

Luke

Premiered on this day

Dubliners

Premiered 26 Sep 2012

Playwright
Michael West, Annie Ryan
Company
The Corn Exchange

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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
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