Fishamble stands at the heart of new Irish writing for theatre, and, as well as developing and commissioning a range of innovate work from established and emerging writers, provides various initiatives to serve emerging artists’ needs, such as playwriting courses, dramaturgical support, training & mentoring schemes, and feedback on script submissions.
Current and Upcoming Productions:
Tiny Plays for Ireland
We were thrilled with the response to the call for submissions for TINY PLAYS FOR IRELAND, announced by the Irish Times, receiving over 1,700 tiny plays which far exceeded our expectations. In fact, the word count of all the plays received amounts to more than double that of WAR AND PEACE! We received plays about birth, life, death, sex, travel, love, loss, landscape, travel, grief, climbing, falling, losing, winning, spirituality, carnality, fishing and everything in between. Fishamble has now read and chosen the short plays for production.
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Forgotten and Silent by Pat Kinevane
SILENT – Winner of two coveted awards at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011:
THE SCOTSMAN FRINGE FIRST and THE HERALD ANGEL
2012 performance dates
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The Wheelchair on My Face by Sonya Kelly
‘I got my first pair of glasses when I was seven. A nurse came to the school and tested everyone’s eyes. And so it was discovered why I’d thrown bread to the floating crisp packets in our local pond and walked into lamp posts and said, ’excuse me’. Until that day the world was a swirl of moving coloured blobs. I thought it was the same for everyone. How wrong I was.’
2012 perfromance dates
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Literary, Development and Mentoring:
Mentoring Programme for Playwrights and Directors
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New Play Clinic
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Show in a Bag
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