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Thu 28 Sep
@ London Irish Centre Camden Square NW1 9XB @ 8pm/admission free/donations welcome |
CELTIC CRAIC
FORTHCOMING...FORTHCOMING... It's that time of the month when the hugely talented Celtic Craic'ers return to the London Irish Centre with a wide range of drama and music. New performers always welcome. Just contact us for details. |
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Fri 29 Sep
@ London Irish Centre Camden Square NW1 9XB 7.30pm/admission free Starring Karina Toolan, Shaun Dicks,Hugo Degenhardt and Neil Weatherall. |
Falling Molly Twist
FORTHCOMING...FORTHCOMING... A rehearsed reading of a powerful and challenging new play, written by Jerry Dunne and directed by John Dunne (no relation). Molly suffers a horrendous rape, after which she begins to freefall. Then she meets Damien, an odd little character. |
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29 Sep - 1 Oct
@ Siena College Upstate New York (Irish American Museum, Newark) http://blog.timesunion.com/localarts/irish-play-to-make-its-american-premiere-at-siena/43455/ |
Cattle Raid of Cooley
A re-telling of the An Tain legend taken from the Ulster Cycle. Queen Maeve desires the Brown Bull of Cooley and after an unsuccessful attempt to obtain the bull by peaceful means, she decides to mount a cattle raid which turns into a bloody war which she cannot hope to win. |
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23-25 October
@ London Irish Centre Camden Square NW1 9XB |
CELTIC KISS
Set in a North London Irish pub, Teresa is holding a wake for her dead husband. Her Celtic Tiger son is helping, alongside a Romanian barmaid. Their lives ravel together as preparations for the wake progress, aided and abetted by numerous bumps in the night and ghostly goings-on! |
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Fri 17 Nov
@ West London Trade Union Club, 33-35 High Street W3 6ND 21-22 Nov
@ London Irish Centre Camden Square NW1 9XB |
COLLINS IN LONDON
Much is known about the visits Michael Collins made to London as part of the treaty negotiations in 1921/22. However, much less is known about the nine years he spent in the capital working, at all places, at the Post Office Savings Bank. |
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Thu 23 Nov
Wormwood Scrubs Prison Mon 27 Nov @ Irish Embassy |
60 YEARS ON
Two characters meet up in a church, one from 1957 the other from 60 years on. The play has been specially commissioned by the Irish Chaplaincy to mark their 60th anniversary. |
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Fri 24 Nov
@ Irish Cultural Centre, Blacks Road, Hammersmith W6 9DT Fri 26 Jan
@ West London Trade Union Club, 33-35 High Street W3 6ND |
PASSION OF THE PLAYBOY RIOTS
Written by Neil Weatherall, the play charts the early development of the Abbey Theatre as seen through the eyes of W B Yeats, Lady Gregory and Padraic Pearce. |
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Fri 8 December
@ Newry Arts Centre |
DREAM ON
On a dreary miserable Friday Night, much against his wishes, Joseph and his wife Clodagh decide to rehearse her wake. What starts off as a fun-filled evening propped up with a drink or two, soon becomes something quite different when their daughter Siobhan turns up and joins in. A comedy with a twist written by Newry writer Shane White. |
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