Following the story of two sisters, Outrage is a play that explores the true nature of women’s role in the Irish revolutionary wars and in particular the Civil War in 1922.
Alice and Nell play key roles in organising civic resistance and the propaganda war. They are fervent, they are funny, they are human and they – like everyone else in Ireland – become deeply conflicted as the country spins toward a shattering Civil clash that split the nation, and continues to haunt Irish politics, society and culture to this day.
Outrage challenges the historical narrative we have all grown up with.
Outrage is written out of the true testimony of women we have never heard about.
Outrage is a theatrical hurricane of empathy, action and truth.
Outrage is produced by Fishamble: The New Play Company. It was presented in partnership with Dublin Port Company, and Meath County Council, during St Patrick’s Festival 2022, as part of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media’s Decade of Centenaries programme.
This highly acclaimed production was revived on national tour in 2024, to audiences throughout the country, with support of an Arts Council Touring grant.
Listen to Deirdre Kinahan and Jim Culleton chatting on Arena – RTÉ Radio 1 about Outrage (05:22- 22:48)
About the Production
Running Time
80 minutes, no intervalAge Guidance
14+Content Warning
Includes depiction of violent sexual assault. If you have been affected by the themes of this play, please see the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre website for resources.
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Cast
Naoise Dunbar
Naoise trained at The Lir Academy in Dublin.
Theatre credits include: Outrage, Duck Duck Goose (Fishamble); Tartuffe, 14 Voices from the Bloodied Field, The Great Hunger (The Abbey Theatre); The Cavalcaders, The Pendulum Moon (Druid Theatre Company) Tempesta (Cork Midsummer Festival and Sugarglass); Of A Midnight Meeting (Bewleys Café Theatre); Staging The Treaty (ANU Productions); The Whispering Chair (Livin’ Dred) The Last Stand, Teddy, Forgive Me Father, Pigs 3 Wolf 1, The Unkillable Irishman (Wexford Arts Centre).
Film and television credits include: Lakelands (Fís Éireann and Harp Media); Baths (Princep Productions).
Productions
Caitríona Ennis
Caitríona most recently filmed Richard Linklater’s upcoming feature BLUE MOON alongside Ethan Hawke and Andrew Scott, and a lead role as Alor in LIKE ME, a Screen Ireland Focus Short directed by Aisling Brady.
She will next play the role of Alice in the Fishamble tour of OUTRAGE by Deirdre Kinahan and directed by Jim Culleton.
Caitríona’s further screen credits include the role of Erica alongside Elva Trill and Stephen Jones in the TV series NORTHERN LIGHTS, directed by Tom Hall and Ruth Meehan for Deadpan Pictures & Lionsgate; the TV series CLEAN SWEEP alongside Charlene McKenna and Barry Ward, directed by Ronan Burke; KISSING CANDICE alongside Ann Skelly and Lydia McGuinness, directed by Aoife McArdle; and WE OURSELVES directed by Paul Mercier.
Her extensive theatre credits include DUCK DUCK GOOSE by Caitríona Daly for Fishamble: The New Play Company; 14 VOICES FROM THE BLOODIED FIELD, for the Abbey Theatre; and THE FALL OF THE SECOND REPUBLIC directed by Annie Ryan for the Corn Exchange.
Most recently Caitríona toured with the Druid Theatre Co.for their production of DRUID O’CASEY: THE DUBLIN PLAYS, directed by Garry Hynes. Caitríona reprised her role as Minnie Powell in the Druid Theatre National Tour of THE SHADOW OF A GUNMAN, directed by Garry Hynes.
Productions
Mary Murray
Mary’s stage performances have toured Europe, China and the United States. She received Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards with MAMCA, The First Irish Theatre Festival in New York and The Irish Times.
She has over 60 screen credits. She was nominated for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress at the Irish Film and Television Awards for her role as Janet in Love Hate. Other notable productions include Valhalla, Penny Dreadful, Adam and Paul, The Magdalene Sisters, Dead Still and Let the Wrong One In.
She voiced numerous animations and radio plays and she’s the recipient of the Best Actress Award at the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2023 for her performance in the Pride of Parnell Street, produced by Fishamble Theatre Company.
Mary is the director of Visions Drama School.
Productions
Post-show Discussion
To accompany Fishamble’s premiere tour of Outrage, Fishamble has recorded a post-show discussion with playwright Deirdre Kinahan, director Jim Culleton and Dr. Mary McAuliffe, historian & director of Gender Studies at UCD.
Production Shots
