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  • About
    • Board & Governance
    • Community Engagement
    • Meet the Team
    • Research
    • Encore
    • News
  • Productions
    • HEAVEN
    • In Two Minds
    • FIGHT NIGHT
    • The Black Wolfe Tone
    • Pat Kinevane Plays
      • KING
      • Before
      • Silent
      • Forgotten
      • Underneath
    • OUTRAGE
    • BREAKING
    • TAIGH/TŶ/TEACH
      • TAIGH/TŶ/TEACH Programme
    • Mustard
    • "Certain Individual Women"
    • 35 years of Fishamble
  • Artist Supports
    • Cruising the Boards Workshop
    • Transatlantic Commissions Residency
    • Big Ambitions
    • Playwriting Courses
    • New Play Clinic
    • Send Us Your Writing
    • Fishamble New Writing Award
    • Mentoring & Workshops
  • Tiny Plays
    • Tiny Plays for a Brighter Future
    • Tiny Plays for a Brighter Future Challenge
    • Tiny Plays 24/7
    • #TinyPlayChallenge
    • Tiny Plays for Ireland and America
    • Tiny Plays for Ireland 2
    • Tiny Plays for Ireland
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Dublin 1, Ireland
D01 NV63

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@fishamble



Registered Charity
No. CHY 20103958.
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Fishamble discovers, develops and produces new plays of national importance with a global reach.
It has toured its productions to audiences throughout Ireland, and to 20 other countries. It champions the role of the playwright, typically supporting over 50% of the writers of all new plays produced on the island of Ireland each year. ​Fishamble has received many awards in Ireland and internationally, including an Olivier Award.

About Us

PRODUCTIONS
ARTIST SUPPORTS

What's On

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Fishamble: The New Play Company and Irish Repertory Theatre present
The Black Wolfe Tone
Written and performed by Kwaku Fortune
Directed by Nicola Murphy Dubey


The Black Wolfe Tone is a thrilling new play about identity, raging against the machine, and how young men deal or don’t deal, with the darkness. A fast-paced journey that interrogates our culture of silence, the mind, and growing up mixed race in Ireland. At its heart, it’s about a young boy seeking forgiveness. The inner child wanting only to be acknowledged, loved, and held.

Coming to the Irish Repertory Theatre, New York this May before returning to Ireland in June for performances at Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray and Cork Arts Theatre in association with The Everyman as part of Cork Midsummer Festival.

Find out more and book your tickets now at the link below.

More Info & Tickets
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Who Am I and How Am I in Ireland?

This ongoing project aims to celebrate the voices of ethnically diverse and marginalised young people in Ireland.

It’s a creative arts and social justice partnership between Fishamble: The New Play Company and Larkin Community College in Dublin 1 
where students come from 34 different ethnicities.
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Through theatre arts, visual arts, and restorative practice circles, the project seeks to deepen young people’s ability to connect with one another, explore their identities, and celebrate who they are in Ireland today.
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Cruising the Boards Workshop Series
 
 

A workshop series for queer theatremakers and writers based in Ireland facilitated by Carys. D Coburn & Gavin Kostick.

It's for you if you have a project you'd like to work on in dialogue with other artists, and if you're excited to discuss the distinctive problems of staging that come with queer aesthetics and queer politics. 

The title is a nod to José Esteban Muñoz's work '
Cruising Utopia: the Then and There of Queer Futurity', and looks to locate the workshops in an active spirit of exploration and play.

More Info

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​Support daring new playwriting and fearless voices. Your support goes directly to artists being paid by Fishamble during these challenging times. ​​

VIDEOS AND CHATS

Andrew Bennett and Janet Moran chat during rehearsals about Fishamble's new play Heaven by Eugene O'Brien.

Fishamble's OUTRAGE by Deirdre Kinahan, directed by Jim Culleton was performed at Kells Courthouse, the Pumphouse Dublin Port & Online, in March-April 2022.

Let's see what the audience thought about it!​
Camille Lucy Ross and Patrick Moy chat about portraying Winston Churchil and Micheal Collins on Fishamble's the Treaty by Colin Murphy. ​
With our tour of shows by Pat Kinevane on hold, Pat has teamed up with Alex Sharpe to record a duet from Before. 

NEWS

FISHAMBLE DIARIES


30+ Years of Fishamble

Celebratory Wishes
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For our 30th year, many of our friends and colleagues sent us celebratory messages. It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces and hear them share their memories of working with us. 

Sebastian Barry's
​30th Year Speech

We were honoured to have award-winning writer, playwright and Ireland's current Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry, give a speech at our 30th year celebrations. 

Fishamble at 30: Playwriting for Ireland by Patrick Lonergan

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Fishamble is honoured to share this essay by Patrick Lonergan, Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at NUI Galway & Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies, Spring 2019, Boston College.

A 30th Anniversary Message from President Michael D. Higgins

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Fishamble was delighted to receive a message from President Michael D Higgins congratulating us on our 30th year. 
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Registered Company No. 168484. Registered Charity No. CHY 20103958.
Fishamble Theatre Company is a not for profit organisation and a registered charity with a valid charitable taxation exemption from the Revenue Commissioners.

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  • Home
  • About
    • Board & Governance
    • Community Engagement
    • Meet the Team
    • Research
    • Encore
    • News
  • Productions
    • HEAVEN
    • In Two Minds
    • FIGHT NIGHT
    • The Black Wolfe Tone
    • Pat Kinevane Plays
      • KING
      • Before
      • Silent
      • Forgotten
      • Underneath
    • OUTRAGE
    • BREAKING
    • TAIGH/TŶ/TEACH
      • TAIGH/TŶ/TEACH Programme
    • Mustard
    • "Certain Individual Women"
    • 35 years of Fishamble
  • Artist Supports
    • Cruising the Boards Workshop
    • Transatlantic Commissions Residency
    • Big Ambitions
    • Playwriting Courses
    • New Play Clinic
    • Send Us Your Writing
    • Fishamble New Writing Award
    • Mentoring & Workshops
  • Tiny Plays
    • Tiny Plays for a Brighter Future
    • Tiny Plays for a Brighter Future Challenge
    • Tiny Plays 24/7
    • #TinyPlayChallenge
    • Tiny Plays for Ireland and America
    • Tiny Plays for Ireland 2
    • Tiny Plays for Ireland
  • Support Fishamble
    • Become a Friend
    • Donate
    • Corporate Membership
    • Sponsorship
    • Thank you
  • Calendar
  • Education
  • Contact
  • Shop