Category: Productions

Hatch Theatre Company and Pavilion Theatre present colic by Eoghan Quinn.

Preview: Wed 5 Oct, 8pm
Thu 6 – Sun 9 Oct, 8pm
Matinée: Sat 8 Oct, 2.30pm
€28/25/23

World Premiere                                                                               

She wonders if she’s asking too much of Love Island to forcibly shut down parts of her brain like rogue software. To ask these conventionally attractive people to drag their sunbeds into her brain and lounge around in the spaces where her thoughts should be…

Aisling and Matt are exhausted. 10-month-old Leah is too. Probably. They just need to get through this evening.

But with the arrival of two damaged friends, a collection of anxious memories, dreams, and visions start to surface, prompting them to ask what is real about this relationship, and what is just in their heads… And either way, can it survive?

Hatch Theatre Company and Pavilion Theatre present the world premiere of colic by Eoghan Quinn. Mixing sharp realism with interior monologue, colic is a daring new play of worlds crashing together: reality and fantasy, tragedy and comedy, Ancient Rome and The Olsen Twins. The outside world and our deepest, innermost voices.

Written by Eoghan Quinn (Bears in Space; Stewart Parker Award Nominee), this stunning piece of new writing is brought to life in a bold and exciting production by acclaimed director Annabelle Comyn (Girl On An Altar, To The Lighthouse, Asking for It).

Cast: Kate Stanley Brennan, Ekow Quartey, Colin Campbell, Liz FitzGibbon

Director: Annabelle Comyn                                                                
Set and Costume Design: Alyson Cummins
Music & Sound Design: Philip Stewart

Lighting Design: Kevin McFadden

Photos: Ros Kavanagh

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Eoghan Quinn and Annabelle Comyn

Hatch Theatre Company and The Everyman in association with Pavilion Theatre and Cork Midsummer Festival present Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse.

This masterpiece of modernism is brought vividly to dramatic life by Ireland’s foremost playwright Marina Carr in a world premiere from award-winning director Annabelle Comyn. Filmed on the Everyman stage this digital capture of the stage production will be broadcast as part of the Cork Midsummer Festival on 25^th June 2021.

“But what have I done with my life? Only this? An infinitely long table, plates, knives. And at the far end, you, my husband, sitting in a heap. Frowning.”

The play opens on the Ramsay family and carefree days spent with friends by the sea. Children play, Mr Carmichael reclines with handkerchief over his face, Lily paints her picture and six year old James wants to sail to the Lighthouse. Life is sweet.

But what appears tranquil on the surface, masks deep currents of longing and frustration which the characters struggle to contain.

With the promise of a trip to the Lighthouse cancelled tensions in the home, and beyond, rupture violently and fling these lives into turmoil and change. The world is in transition and death becomes a footnote to a seismic global change, those who remain try to cope in a new era and with the loss that it brings.

An all-star cast includes Maura Bird, Gillian Buckle, Colin Campbell, Declan Conlon, Derbhle Crotty, Aoife Duffin, Nick Dunning, Kwaku Fortune, Olwen Fouere, and Alex Murphy. To The Lighthouse receives its world premiere, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival 2021.

Woolf’s text is written in a form where thoughts and emotions are foregrounded. Marina Carr’s adaptation captures the constant flux of the characters’ inner thoughts, and re-imagines them in a theatrical landscape. It recalls childhood emotions and highlights emptiness and yearning in adult relationships. Among the play’s many themes are those of loss, subjectivity, the nature of art, unity and the problem of perception.

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A Hatch Theatre Company, Landmark Productions and Dublin Theatre Festival co-production.

Hatch Theatre Company are delighted to announce the world premiere of The Talk of The Town by Emma Donoghue, author of the world wide bestseller Room.

 ‘I was born to be a New Yorker.’

Ireland and America collide. From the red-brick suburbs of Ranelagh to the giddy heights of 1950s Manhattan, one woman – the iconic Maeve Brennan – made the leap.

Daughter of a famous revolutionary father, she threw herself into the glamour of New York literary circles while writing heartbreaking stories of a very different world back in Dublin. Beautiful, mercurial and devastatingly truthful in her work, she fascinated the world, including the brilliant and volatile men in her life at The New Yorker.

Multi award-winning Emma Donoghue returns to the theatre with this dazzling new play inspired by the life and work of a pioneering writer and remarkable woman.

Catherine WALKER and Lorcan CRANITCH in _The Talk of the Town_ at Dublin Theatre Festival. Photo: Patrick Redmond

Barry BARNES and Catherine WALKER in The Talk of the Town at Dublin Theatre Festival. Photo: Patrick Redmond

A scene from The Talk of the Town at Dublin Theatre Festival. Photo: Patrick Redmond

Talk of The Town, Barry Barnes, Hazel Doupe, Michelle Forbes. Photo: Patrick Redmond

Owen McDONNELL and Catherine WALKER in _The Talk of the Town_ at Dublin Theatre Festival. Photo: Patrick Redmond

Darragh KELLY, Catherine WALKER, Owen McDONNELL and Lorcan CRANITCH in _The Talk of the Town_ at Dublin Theatre Festival. Photo: Patrick Redmond

A Hatch Theatre Company production in association with Project Arts Centre, April 17 – May 9 2009.

David conducts an office romance by e-mail. He has love at his fingertips. But a shocking admission unravels his relationship piece by chilling piece.

Jess loves David. She believes happiness can be bought.

David loves Jess. He must work to pay off her debt.

Love and money is killing them.

Dennis Kelly’s Love and Money offers a cautionary tale of consumerism gone mad, putting spiralling debt and its effect on love under the microscope. Funny but heart wrenching, this ingenious drama dares us to enter a dislocated world of bad debts and even worse desires.

Love and Money Kate Stanley Brennan, Barry Ward. Photo: Ros Kavanagh

Love and Money Barry Ward, Kate Nic Chonaonaigh. Photo: Ros Kavanagh

Love and Money, Kate Stanley Brennan, Barry Ward. Photo: Ros Kavanagh

Love and Money, Kate Nic Chonaonaigh, Phil Kingston. Photo: Ros Kavanagh

Love and Money. Photo: Ros Kavanagh

Love and Money – Hatch Theatre. Photo: Ros Kavanagh

Produced by Hatch Theatre Company in association with Project Arts Centre, 20 August – 6 September 2008.

“Something is happened on the island a long time ago. Something bad.”
The islanders carry the burden of a terrible secret.
One they can’t bring themselves to tell their children.
But when a stranger comes calling their world is blown apart forever.

Mixing fact and fiction, Further Than The Furthest Thing is inspired by real life events on the island of Tristan da Cunha and evokes the sadness and brutality of an island community on the cusp of change and a man intent on gaining power and money at any cost.

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A Hatch Theatre Company production in association with Project Arts Centre, 3 – 19 May 2007.

Far away a battle rages and an entire city is turned to dust. Amelia can’t sleep. She waits for news of her husband. He’s a great General and this seems to be a decisive victory. But when the motives for the war start to look disturbingly personal, his wife becomes desperate to hold onto his love.

Martin Crimp’s new play takes Sophocles’ ancient story of marriage and violence, ‘The Trachiniae’, and propels it into a modern world of hypocrisy and emotional terrorism.

Annabelle Comyn’s direction is seamless

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Cruel and Tender – Andrea Irvine, Owen McDonnell. Photo: Ros Kavanagh

Cruel and Tender – Conrad Kemp. Photo: Ros Kavanagh

Cruel and Tender ensemble. Photo: Ros Kavanagh

Cruel and Tender. Photo: Ros Kavanagh

CruelandTender – Judith Roddy, Yvonne Wandera. Photo: Ros Kavanagh

A Hatch Theatre Company production in association with Project Arts Centre, 23 August – 9 September 2006.

A man is found lying in the snow at the foot of the Pyrenees. He remembers nothing. He believes he is British. A young woman from the British Consulate is dispatched to confirm his nationality and to try to piece together his identity. When an elegant woman arrives claiming to be his wife, the world he was discovering becomes unrecognisable. As the snow melts on the mountains the man is left with an agonising choice; he may have to make a decision for the first time in his life.

Pyrenees Karen Ardiff. Photo: Ros Kavanagh

Pyrenees. Photo: Ros Kavanagh

PYRENEES, Mark Lambert, Ronan Leahy. Photo: Ros Kavanagh

Pyrenees, Ger Ryan, Fiona Bell, Mark Lambert. Photo: Ros Kavanagh

A Hatch Theatre Company production in association with Project Arts Centre, 17 November – 3 December 2005.

Rosa and Eric “disappeared” on 11th September 1973 during Chile’s military coup. That day they lost their only son, aged seven.

Twenty years on they are living as exiles in Paris. Rosa is a political journalist, Eric a psychologist.

At a signing of her book, Rosa finds herself inexplicably drawn to a young man named Luca – an ex-patient of her husband’s.

Following on from the critical success of The Country, Hatch Theatre Company brings you another stirring and emotive drama from one of Scandinavia’s leading playwrights – the Irish premiere of Blood by Lars Norén.

BLOOD — Carrie Crowley. Photo: Ros Kavanagh

BLOOD Conor Mullen AND Peter Gaynor. Photo: Ros Kavanagh

BLOOD – Ingrid Craigie. Photo: Ros Kavanagh

A Hatch Theatre Company production in association with Project Arts Centre, 25th August – 11 September 2004.

Richard and Corinne have moved to the country –
To get away from the city …

Martin Crimp’s The Country is a highly compelling and sexually charged drama that uncovers the darker side of the country idyll. This gripping play unearths the desire, deceit and power struggles that lie beneath.

The Country, Declan Conlon, Fiona Bell. Photo: Ros Kavanagh

The Country. Photo: Ros Kavanagh

The Country, Fiona O_Shaughnessy, Fiona Bell. Photo: Ros Kavanagh

The Country, Fiona Bell. Photo: Ros Kavanagh

The Country, Declan Conlon, Fiona O_Shaughnessy. Photo: Ros Kavanagh