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Jammie Dodgers by Ciara Gillan is a workplace comedy set in Berlin about a group of office temps from various countries (Ireland, France, Germany, Australia, the U.S.) who are determined to do as little work as possible, outsmart their manipulative boss, delay adult responsibility and not sleep with each other. They fail on all counts. Jammie Dodgers is a show that explores that time in your early twenties when, despite your best efforts, you start becoming an adult and making the choices that will determine your future. Directed by Anna Nugent
Jammie Dodgers by Ciara Gillan is a workplace comedy set in Berlin about a group of office temps from various countries (Ireland, France, Germany, Australia, the U.S.) who are determined to do as little work as possible, outsmart their manipulative boss, delay adult responsibility and not sleep with each other. They fail on all counts. Jammie Dodgers is a show that explores that time in your early twenties when, despite your best efforts, you start becoming an adult and making the choices that will determine your future. Directed by Anna Nugent
Written by Eamon Somers, produced and directed by Berni Dwan, with audio production by Declan McGlade, A Quarter of Broken Biscuits captures a snapshot of life in Dublin’s Liberties in the 1960s. With the main action emanating from a local grocery shop, the characters grapple with two main issues – the age-old housing crisis, and the nascent realization that homosexuality does indeed exist. The backdrop of emigration and displacement adds a sense of urgency to these questions of social justice in a modest and homogenous Irish community. The author of A Quarter of Broken Biscuits, Eamon Somers,
All The Way to Mars and Back by Eddie Naughton Directed by Anna Nugent ALL THE WAY TO MARS AND BACK is about day in the life of a community where the endemic drug problem has become a way of life. It begins with the funeral of a drug addict and ends with yet more deaths. In between, the play points up the sinister elements that has the community in a vice like grip; the unscrupulous drug baron, the uncaring, aspiring dealers, and the dangerous, pathetic addicts who do what they must to outlive each day. Then there are the broken parents in the community whose way of life has been altered utter
Still We Sing by Martina Collender Directed by Anna Nugent Ghent, 1956, autumn. The play opens to find a small group of actors in rehearsals for Romeo and Juliet. We discover these play-actors are being led Nickolas Locke and they are rehearsing the play in brutal conditions, against all odds. We discover this group of people have been torn from their homes, their lives, the livelihood, the identity, there dignity has been torn from them. Everything they have ever known has been ripped from them. The reason for this is the colour of the skin, there accents, where they come from, who they are,
To The Bone by David Donavan Directed by Anna Nugent To The Bone is a rural drama exploring the relationship between generations and changing attitudes. Jack is helping his father Bob on the family farm but longs for something more. He faces a crossroad as decisions need to be made and friendships are tested in his journey of self-discovery. Laurence Lowry as Bob Paul Nugent as Jack Aoife Commons as Jess Patrick de Monfort as Tom Fiana Toibin as Mary Made with the support of the Coimisiún na Meán’s Sound and Vision scheme through the Television License Fee.
Class of 2025 by Diandra Xavier Directed by Anna Nugent Anisa Kapoor is on the brink of adulthood, juggling school pressure, family expectations, and the endless chatter of her virtual assistant. When she’s asked to give a graduation speech, she must choose between perfection and honesty. Vivian Birungi as Anisa Brigid Leahy as Alexa Brian Robinson as Barista Rebecca Rose Flynn as Eimear Shruti Shandilya as Mum Fiana Toibin as Redwood Principal Made with the support of the Coimisiún na Meán’s Sound and Vision scheme through the Television License Fee.
Tenterhooks by John Morton Directed by Sarah Baxter Tenterhooks is a darkly comic drama about two strangers, adrift in their lives who keep meeting in various suicide black spots over the course of a summer. Brid is a self-styled damsel in distress looking for a knight in shining armour to rescue her. She lives alone in a big house in the country and is searching for someone to take an interest in her life and connect with. Jimmy is a recently unemployed taxi driver who stakes out suicide spots looking for souls to rescue. He lives at home with his uncaring mother and abusive stepfather and is
Home by Carol RooneyDirected by Anna Nugent ‘Home’ is a monologue play following three generations of a Dublin family during the first half of 2020. Eileen a Clontarf native is enjoying every moment of retirement and all the social activity she can, her niece Niamh is heading into her 50’s and feels overwhelmed with her familial and work commitments and is concerned with her son Adam’s disinterest in the impending leaving certificate. Eileen falls and is admitted to hospital, due to her injuries she is sent to convalesce in a nursing home and lockdown then ensues, her positive outlook dwindles
Young men, think twice before whipping out your spray paints after dark, hoping to have some fun at the expense of the defenseless dead in that old local cemetery near you. Dead Platoon a new radio drama, written and produced by Berni Dwan, directed by Bairbre Ní Chaoimh, with sound tech by Declan McGlade, will convince you that this anti-social behaviour is not a good idea, so go kick a football instead. Let’s just say that nobody is ever as dead as they seem, and you don’t want to be disturbing their beauty sleep, do you? Dead Platoon cast and crew – Front Row Left to Right: Ashleigh Dorrell
Written and produced by Berni Dwan and directed by Cian O’Náraigh, The Moth Hour is a dramatic case of female personality, resilience, strength of character and adaptability kicking in when the safety of daylight is replaced by something darker than dark. All told by one character at three key stages of her life – before, during and after the horror, The Moth Hour will make you think twice about visiting your local park at that half dark, half-light, time of evening. Recording and sound design by Declan McGlade. Made with the support of Coimisiún na Meán’s Sound and Vision scheme through the T
Growing Up in the Big Smoke, Unrhymed and Acapella is a memoir of growing up in Dublin as a child of the nineteen-sixties, a teenager of the nineteen-seventies, and a young woman of the nineteen-eighties, a memoir that captures the prevailing social and cultural norms of those decades. You remember – First Confession, First Holy Communion, Confirmation, National School, scary nuns, discos, the Leaving Certificate, careers for girls, blah, blah, blah. Big Smoke was written by Berni Dwan and directed by new young talent, Carmen Ortiz Victorino. Dramatic narration was performed by Adrianne Murphy
Jammie Dodgers by Ciara Gillan is a workplace comedy set in Berlin about a group of office temps from various countries (Ireland, France, Germany, Australia, the U.S.) who are determined to do as little work as possible, outsmart their manipulative boss, delay adult responsibility and not sleep with each other. They fail on all counts. Jammie Dodgers is a show that explores that time in your early twenties when, despite your best efforts, you start becoming an adult and making the choices that will determine your future. Directed by Anna Nugent Made with the support of the Coimisiún na Meán’s
Jammie Dodgers by Ciara Gillan is a workplace comedy set in Berlin about a group of office temps from various countries (Ireland, France, Germany, Australia, the U.S.) who are determined to do as little work as possible, outsmart their manipulative boss, delay adult responsibility and not sleep with each other. They fail on all counts. Jammie Dodgers is a show that explores that time in your early twenties when, despite your best efforts, you start becoming an adult and making the choices that will determine your future. Directed by Anna Nugent Made with the support of the Coimisiún na Meán’s
Don’t B 2 Keen Mr. Matchmaker by Conrad JB Ethan, a young Dublin gay man, disillusioned with his prospects of ever owning a house in the capital, sets off to deep rural Ireland in search of a Sugar Daddy. Written as a reaction to John B Keane’s ‘The Matchmaker’, Don’t B 2 Keen Mister Matchmaker explores the transactional feeling of modern day Grindr culture and how that can interact with rural isolation. Queer men’s hook-up apps can show you every man in Dublin who is willing to sleep with you, but if each of those men is still living in their parent’s gaff, what is one to do? Rural isolation
Konstantin by Ultan Pringle [powerpress] Konstantin follows the entwined lives of lifelong partners Nina and Allie. Beginning when they’re 18 and setting out to explore the world and finishing when they’re in their late 80s and preparing to leave it, Konstantin is a story of two lives lived and loved side by side. The play jumps through the span of 60 years to explore the relationship and romantic partnership between Allie and Nina. We meet them at 18, arguing in an old decrepit lighthouse about what the future holds. We see them in their early thirties, realising that they’d like to make thei
A new audio drama by Colette Cullen. Two very different couples meet in the waiting room of a fertility clinic – Adam and Sera for their fifth IVF cycle, Jess and Jessica for their first. As they pass the time chit chatting there are some surprising revelations. Cast: Emma Dargan-Reid as Jessica Siobhan Callaghan as Jess Lesley Conroy as Sera Jed Murray as Adam Directed by Colette Cullen Made with the support of the Coimisiún na Meán’s Sound and Vision scheme through the Television License Fee.
‘Togetherness’ tells the story of the narcissistic Dervla who on her agony aunt style podcast ‘Wagon Wheel’ with her long suffering co-host Fidelma recounts the onesided story of a recent breakup with girlfriend Megan while a confused call in listener tries to make sense of the meandering tale. Written and Directed by Jonathan Hughes Dervla – Sorcha Curley Fidelma – Andrea Kelly Megan – Juliette Crosby Keven/Deco/Server – Finbarr Doyle Jonathan Hughes is an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker based in Limerick City. His scripts have received backing from Screen Ireland, RTE, Galway Film C
Awakenings is a five-act play about tolerance, making the effort to understand other points of views when recognised in context, and strengthening rather than weakening ties when differences have been acknowledged. In Awakenings, the conflicting views around religion, popular culture, and traditional culture are played out in a care home between three generations. While there are obvious tensions, the characters do listen to each other, and this is what propels the narrative. Awakenings demonstrates the value of openness and inclusiveness, and of appreciating that everyone you meet has a back
Mairead (50s) is thinking of applying for promotion whenever her manager Helen retires. She asks for Helen’s opinion on the matter, confiding in her boss that she’s autistic. Mairead is taken aback when Helen calls her ‘brave’ and ponders why disclosing her neurology should be seen that way. Through Mairead’s story, our author Maura Campbell explores “why it might be seen as ‘brave’ to apply a word that’s generally represented as something very different in popular culture – usually a young, white guy with savant skills. Autism often looks very different in women and girls, which is why histor
Near FM presents new audio drama ‘Heartburn’, written by Caitlin Magnall-Kearns; directed by Anna Nugent. Heartburn is a modern take on the rom-com that looks at fatness and friendship. Set over one night in Belfast it follows Chris, a writer, and Lou, a “dinner-lady man” by day and pint puller at night. The two met at university and quickly became friends with benefits. Chris moved back to Belfast, and now, two years later, Lou turns up on her doorstep on New Years Eve with a bottle of prosecco and some questions that need to be answered. Over the night the two reminisce, drink, laugh, eat an
Want your Shakespeare battered or filleted? Listen to A Fishy Tail of Sound and Fury, a new radio drama written and produced by Berni Dwan, and directed by Brendan Laird. What’s on the menu? Food snobbery and copy culture served up with lashings of lovely Shakespeare, infused with socialist ideology, and a palette cleanser, no less, of poetic justice. A Fishy Tail of Sound and Fury Written & produced by: Berni Dwan Directed by: Brendan Laird Cast: Alan O’Brien: Tom / Fishmonger Tara Power: Customer / Ursula Jimmy O’Connell: Roving Reporter Niamh Large: Mrs. Boylan / Matt Damon / Damo Chirpy Ch
New audio drama High Spirits by Méabh de Brún – 6pm June 8th 2023 Three siblings and one in-law gather after a patriarch’s burial to honour a very unusual letter of wishes. Their late father wants to be contacted in the afterlife, and so begins a dark comedy full of suspect séances, family secrets and the undeniable bond of siblinghood. Directed by Anna Nugent Caoimhe Mulcahy as Rachael Méabh de Brún as Mags Patrick de Monfort as Mike Paul Nugent as Richard Creative Consultancy by Clare Monnelly Made with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television License Fee.
New audio drama broadcasting at 6pm on Thursday the 1st June 2023. The Whale and the Swan by Fiona Browne Marie is pregnant at a young age and finds herself in the care of the nuns. Her daily reality is stark and brutal. In order to survive she creates her own world among the hanging sheets of the laundry, and regularly escapes into ‘Suchatime’ Directed by Anna Nugent Cast: Noreen – Fiona Browne Sister Augusta/Mother Superior/ Aunt Joan – Noni Stapleton Made with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television License Fee.
A young woman decides to end her life on high point by jumping off a building before her happiness can turn sour. However just as she is about to jump, she is stopped by a man calling himself the Angel of Death, and it seems he rather she stay alive. Directed by Anna Nugent Eva – Rachel Walshe Jamie – Paul Nugent Joy – Jessie Doyle Mona – Jade Jordan Made with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television License Fee.
