Drama

☆☆☆☆☆ Theatre Thoughts ' a story of epic proportions' ☆☆☆☆☆ Morish TV 'a must see' What begins as a thrilling adventure soon spirals into a harrowing tale of survival against all odds. Trawled is a one-man biographical drama set on a prawn trawler. Twenty-five years after his life-changing experience, Eoin Ryan brings the wild waves...

Rosemount Amateur Drama Society are back in Tuar Ard this March with the side-splitting comedy play, Widows' Paradise, written by Sam Cree and directed by Jackie Madden. Set in a caravan in the 1960’s, the play follows a group of women who go on a caravan holiday so that they can prove they do not...

Rosemount Amateur Drama Society are back in Tuar Ard this March with the side-splitting comedy play, Widows' Paradise, written by Sam Cree and directed by Jackie Madden. Set in a caravan in the 1960’s, the play follows a group of women who go on a caravan holiday so that they can prove they do not...

Rosemount Amateur Drama Society are back in Tuar Ard this March with the side-splitting comedy play, Widows' Paradise, written by Sam Cree and directed by Jackie Madden. Set in a caravan in the 1960’s, the play follows a group of women who go on a caravan holiday so that they can prove they do not...

Rosemount Amateur Drama Society are back in Tuar Ard this March with the side-splitting comedy play, Widows' Paradise, written by Sam Cree and directed by Jackie Madden. Set in a caravan in the 1960’s, the play follows a group of women who go on a caravan holiday so that they can prove they do not...

Rosemount Amateur Drama Society are back in Tuar Ard this March with the side-splitting comedy play, Widows' Paradise, written by Sam Cree and directed by Jackie Madden. Set in a caravan in the 1960’s, the play follows a group of women who go on a caravan holiday so that they can prove they do not...

After last year’s excellent production, we are thrilled to have Laois Open Door Theatre back with us with their latest offering Play On! by Rick Abbott. This hilarious love letter to amateur drama follows a plucky community theatre group rehearsing to perform an original murder mystery, Murder Most Foul by a first time author. The...

Laois Fourth Wall Theatre Group presents Bernard Farrell’s situational comedy I Do Not Like Thee, Doctor Fell directed by David Corri. A group therapy session is led by the enigmatic and manipulative Suzy (Mary Dermody). The participants Joe Fell (John Kavanagh), Roger (Kevin Lalor-Fitzpatrick), Peter (Joe Murphy), Maureen (Alex O’Neill) and Rita (Maeve Heneghan) reveal...

FREE EVENT | BOOKING REQUIRED Is Mise Éire Eile: I am another Ireland The true story of a community grappling with itself after the arrival of 100 international protection applicants. On a rainy evening in autumn 2023 the staff of a small guesthouse in Newbridge prepared to welcome 100 international protection applicants. As buses with...

Sit back, relax, and let Mick regale you with a few of his best “good ones”. Hailing from Rathdowney / Errill in southwest Laois – where he’s practically a legend – Mick draws inspiration for his songs, poems, and stories from his home place and the characters that fill it. An old-style storyteller with one...

This coming-of-age play from Big Guerilla productions set in rural Ireland, just might break your heart.  It might also bring you back to a time and place full of innocence and longing. Doused with the colour and humour we have come to expect from Seamus O’Rourke, this time he is joined on stage by a...