Bailed Out!

By Colin Murphy

'Hell is at the gates.’

On November 28th 2010 Brian Lenihan, Ireland’s Minister for Finance, alone at the airport en route to Brussels looked into the snow and thought, ‘This is terrible. No Irish minister has ever had to do this before.’

Bailed Out! tells the story of how Ireland fell into the jaws of the Troika.
Following the smash-hit success of Guaranteed!, hailed by President Michael D. Higgins as ‘a very important play’, Fishamble presented this drama-documentary by playwright and journalist Colin Murphy.

Based on official accounts and off-the-record interviews, an ensemble of actors took up those documents for a stripped-back production, to embody myriad national and international figures as they wrestled with the crisis.
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Bailed Out! left audiences informed, enraged and perhaps a little heart-broken!

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Created By

Writer Colin Murphy
Director Conall Morrison
Producer Marketa Dowling
Dramaturg Gavin Kostick
Costume Designer Barbara McCarthy
AV Designer Kilian Waters
Line Producer Selina O’Reilly
Stage Manager Paula Tierney
Graphic Designer Simon Dry

Cast

Denis Conway
Peter Daly
Peter Hanly
Mark Lambert
​Ali White

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Performances

2015
Sept 23 – Oct 4: Dublin Theatre Festival, Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire
Nov 21: St Michan’s Church, Dublin, as part of Festival of Arts and Politics (reading)

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Critical Praise for Bailed Out!​

‘a must-see….[Fishamble] has injected a new and vital ingredient into the Irish theatre landscape…director Conall Morrison cleverly marshals a classy cast’  Irish Independent

‘Colin Murphy does a terrific job in using documentary material to maximum dramatic effect ….. Bailed Out! is the story of our lives’ 
Irish Times
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‘this must-see play…superbly delivered by a supple cast’ 
★★★★★
Sunday Times

‘the performers work wonders of energetic versatility in their various roles’ 
Irish Mail on Sunday

‘a compelling drama’ 
Sunday Business Post
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‘slick and fast-moving’ 
Irish Examiner

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