Gowran Little Theatre
Previous Productions
2024
Brian Friel's
Dancing at Lughnasa
Dancing at Lughnasa tells the story of five unmarried sisters living in a rural part of County Donegal in 1936. They share their home with Michael, the seven-year-old son of the youngest sister, and their older brother Jack, a missionary priest who has just returned from Africa. The play is narrated by an adult Michael, who looks back on that summer, offering a poignant reflection on the lives of these women.​
2024
Summer Series
Méabh De Brún
Dead Man's Bells
David Tristram's
Last Tango in Little Gowran
and
A series of monologues
2022
Brian Friel's
The Communication Cord
Set in a restored thatched cottage close to the sea in the remote townland of Ballybeg, County Donegal, The Communication Cord is a farce which is preoccupied with language and its powerful effects.​
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2019
Neil Simon's
The Odd Couple
This classic comedy centers around uptight, neat Felix Ungar and easygoing, disheveled Oscar Madison as new roommates.
2018
Bernard Farrell's
Happy Birthday Dear Alice
Happy Birthday Dear Alice is at once an affectionate hymn to old age and a ruthlessly comic dissection of family life from the master of dark comedy.
2017
Ken Ludwig's
Lend Me A Tenor
It’s 1934, and the world’s greatest tenor Tito Merelli has come to Cleveland, Ohio, to save its Grand Opera Company by singing Otello.
2016
Brendan Behan's
The Hostage
A tragedy in which a young English soldier, Leslie, is being kept prisoner in a Dublin boarding house frequented by sailors, whores, policemen and the IRA. Love blossoms when Leslie meets Teresa, a country girl, who comes to stay.​
2015
M.J. Ginnelly's
Wake In The West
The play is set during the wake of Tom Healy who has drank himself to death and now wishes his grave to be a watery one by requesting cremation and the scattering of his ashes at sea. The comedy begins when a neighbour decides that Tom is not entitled to take it all with him.
2014
Jim Nolan's
Moonshine
Easter. A seaside town. The Protestant church is closing down, and the local undertaker is determined to stage a version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Around these facts, Jim Nolan builds a moving and memorable play in which members of a motley cast search for their private resurrections.
2013
Tommy Marren's
It's The Real McCoy
The play is set over two days in the spring of 1964 in the humble abode of Madge Molloy – a woman in her mid-60's – who has lived over 40 years of her life wondering why her husband Tom, whom she was only married to for just four months, disappeared without trace or reason.
2012
Martin McDonagh's
The Cripple Of Inishmaan
The Cripple of Inishmaan is set in 1934, the year a Hollywood film crew arrive on neighbouring Inishmore to film The Man of Aran. Cripple Billy, an orphan living with the local shopkeepers, spinster sisters Kate and Eileen, longs for something to happen in his narrow, restricted life.