Programme 2011
Drama
Drama Shows
CLOAKED
‘Cloaked’ is a rich gender bending drama about power, morality and fear. The Renaissance flavours and colours this passionate drama with sexuality and humour. Starring 2009 IDGTF Best Actor winner, Ricardo Melendez (Nijinsky), ... (click to read more)
MYSTERIOUS SKIN
In Kansas, Brian has missing hours in his life. He looks for them with alien abductee Avalyn, who’s lonely and looking for her next close encounter!! In New York, street hustler Neil loves sex with older men. In a deeply moving twist, their ... (click to read more)
STICKS AND STONES
On the Reel presents Sticks & Stones, a new, daring and gripping Australian play that ensembles a fresh and modern creative team. Sticks & Stones delves into the modern man; sexuality, family, stereotypes, personal inner demons - and all as ... (click to read more)
LET'S PRETEND WE'RE HAVING COFFEE 30 YEARS LATER..
Based on a true and, therefore simple, sincere and straightforward story, Jose recounts a particularly complex period in his life. Let’s Pretend… does not shy from the complications of human existence and at times overflows with ... (click to read more)
MY DEAREST BYRON
Sex, Scandal, Incest, and Exile, loving Lord Byron was never going to be easy. In 1816 the most infamous lovers of an age parted forever; Lord Byron and his half sister Augusta ended an incestuous relationship that had scandalised society and ... (click to read more)
MOVING ON (Free Play Reading)
For best friends John and Ashling living together was never a problem until John’s friend Simon moved in. As tempers ignite and tragedy unfolds the three find their personal relationships with each other tested to the extreme as they struggle ... (click to read more)
THE TEMPERAMENTALS
The Temperamentals tells the story of two men who faced an epic struggle to create history – and who, through their struggles, fell in love. Long before Harvey Milk, In pre-Stonewall America the communist Harry Hay and the Viennese refugee ... (click to read more)
ONE
They say love is... what you make it… two hearts, two souls, two bodies merging to become one. Passion, trust, desire, longing - a raging fire that just has to be quenched… a life’s work. It’s the reason we do anything and ... (click to read more)
AN ACTRESS PREPARES
In a beguiling setting, where Marilyn’s intimacies are shared with her loyal dresser, the definition of modern sexual womanhood reveals what it is to be Marilyn. Her words speak louder than the iconic image! Who is the persona behind the ... (click to read more)
IRISH THEATRE SHORTS
Join us in the Cobalt Café for our new collection of new short theatre pieces. Enjoy drama and comedy over a glass of wine at the Cobalt. TOTAL DURATION: 110 MINS (incl interval) Pieter’s Coming Out - by Brian Merriman Set in South ... (click to read more)
INTERROGATING MY MOTHER
Cian, A troubled young man, flies to England and turns up on the doorstep of the woman who abandoned him and his siblings 13 years ago – his mother. While she is living in luxury with her wealthy architect husband, her life is far removed ... (click to read more)
RIGHTEOUS MONEY
Markets, Bankers, Recession, Bailouts. Dishing out advice on deal-making, stock buying and sleeping with your assistant, a sexually rapacious and insanely rich TV provocateur takes on the tanking economy. In this solo financial tour de force, host ... (click to read more)
