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 struggling to get a foothold on his life.
Both consistently bump into each other by chance but due to miscommunication, they struggle to create a bond. Eventually both of their lives take drastic turns for the worse as they both court death and their plights become more dire. With no help in sight, they are forced to cling to each other. But how long can either of them hang on for?
Pattie Maguire as Brid
Darragh Feehely as Jimmy
Made with the support of the Coimisiún na Meán’s Sound and Vision scheme through the Television License Fee.
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Home
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 over the months as she unable to leave. Niamhis still mourning the loss of her own parents from recent years and is unable to realise the reality of the struggles facing her aunt and son. Adam has recovered from childhood cancer and the loss of freedom and opportunity through lockdown impact heavily on his mental health.
Adam and Eileen share a bond not defined by age and in a time of intolerable anguish he assists her to make her own decision about her care.
Cast
Eileen - Helen Roache
Niamh - Fiona Browne
Adam - Adam Gallagher
Made with the support of the Coimisiún na Meán’s Sound and Vision scheme through the Television License Fee.
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Jammie Dodgers Episode 3
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 Sound and Vision scheme through the Television License Fee.
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Jammie Dodgers Episode 2
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 Sound and Vision scheme through the Television License Fee.
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Don’t B 2 Keen Mr. Matchmaker
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 is a real problem for countryside communities and LGBTQ+ people suffer heightened levels of loneliness when they feel unable to come out. Can we meet in the middle? Can we be our own Matchmakers?
The play was directed by Anna Nugent
Ethan was played by Robert Downes
Sean, Casper, Daniel, Padraig was played by Emmanuel Okoye
Sharon, Bride to Be, Sive was Maureen O’Connell
Caoimhe, Jackie was played by Biaina Ryan
Made with the support of the Coimisiún na Meán’s Sound and Vision scheme
through the Television License Fee.
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