As Ireland eased out of its first lockdown in 2020, Fishamble proudly presented a selection of Tiny Plays, from 24 July – 3 Aug.

Tiny Plays 24/7 was presented online, and was a combination of pieces performed on the O’Reilly Theatre stage and filmed, as well as multimedia pieces created digitally. ere:

The selected plays and playwrights included were:

  • Before the Storm by Lora Hartin
  • Just Because They’re Birds by Maria Popovic
  • Wild Horses by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth
  • Martyrs by Caitríona Daly
  • War Paint by Conor Hanratty
  • For How Janelle Monáe Once Made Me Feel by Julia Marks
  • Change by Patrick O’Laoghaire
  • The Wonder of You by Eric O ‘Brien
  • Bear Hunt by Grace Lobo
  • Ragnarok by Ryan Murphy

Fishamble is proud to share that it employed over 50 arts workers through this project. If you would like to support Fishamble, please consider making at donation or becoming a Friend of Fishamble.

#TinyPlayChallenge

During the past few months, Fishamble, and the Irish artistic community, has been working hard to keep imaginations lively, communities engaged, and most of all offer people the opportunity of communication through creative expression. Fishamble wanted people to keep their creativity flowing by challenging people in Ireland and around the world, to write 600 word Tiny Plays.
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From March to April, Fishamble set this challenge for residents of Ireland and the Irish abroad, with a weekly prompts of COMMUNITY, NATURE, TRADE, and ESSENTIAL. Fishamble then opened this challenge out to the rest of the world in May, asking people to respond to the prompt of CHANGE. Fishamble was delighted to receive over 470 submissions in total for the #TinyPlayChallenge, and published a selection of the Tiny Plays, in addition to sending a prize of Fishamble playscripts to the chosen writers. The plays included in Tiny Plays 24/7 are from this selection.