Fishamble: The New Play Company, in partnership with ESB Presents
Tiny Plays for a Brighter Future
Selfish by Signe Lury
A Journey by Eva-Jane Gaffney
Our Turn by Niall Murphy
Three Tiny Plays, consisting of just 600 words, have been produced as part of the Tiny Plays for a Brighter Future challenge, a partnership between ESB and Fishamble: The New Play Company.
The challenge invited writers to imagine what a brighter energy future means to them, and to capture that in a 600-word play. Over 350 submissions were received, and the shortlisted plays were selected by an independent panel of judges.
The challenge invited writers to imagine what a brighter energy future means to them, and to capture that in a 600-word play. Over 350 submissions were received, and the shortlisted plays were selected by an independent panel of judges.
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Fishamble is proud to share that it employed over 25 arts workers through this project. If you would like to support Fishamble, please consider making at donation or becoming a Friend of Fishamble.
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Tiny Plays for a Brighter Future with ESB
Graphics designed by Zoo.
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For ESB, a brighter future starts with a low carbon future, powered by clean electricity. One where air quality is better, energy is sustainable and affordable, communities are thriving and where the future of the planet is safe. With Ireland’s electricity system on a pathway to be carbon free within a generation, and with the growing adoption of electric cars, electric heat pumps and smart home devices, electricity will be a transformative force in the fight against climate change.
‘Tiny Plays for A Brighter Future’ is an opportunity to give creative expression to all points of view in the transition to a low carbon energy future: to look at the choices we all must make to meet our future climate goals, examine how those choices will impact communities across Ireland, and imagine what we want the Ireland of our future to be, through 600-word Tiny Plays. |
Created byWritten by Eva-Jane Gaffney, Signe Lury and Niall Murphy
Director Jim Culleton Producer Eva Scanlan Filmed & Edited by Jeda de Brí & Cal De Brí Sound Designer Carl Kennedy Sound Recordist Ross Carew Lighting Designer John Gunning Costume Designer Maree Kearns Stage Manager Stephanie Ryan Production Manager Eoin Kilkenny ASM / Props Sarah Purcell Dramaturg Gavin Kostick Graphic Designer Zoo Digital Colour Grading by Cal de Brí Clapper Loader/Camera Assistant Daniel Culleton |
Cast
Steve Blount, Martha Breen, Sorcha Fox, Eva-Jane Gaffney, Leah Minto and Meg O'Brien
For Fishamble & O'Reilly Theatre Marketing & Development Manager Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan Marketing & Development Intern Cally Shine Production Coordinator & Covid Officer Ronan Carey Director, O'Reilly Theatre Laura MacNaughton Front of House Manager, O'Reilly Theatre Aoife McCollum Technical Manager, O’Reilly Theatre Chris Griffin For ESB Group Strategy, Innovation, & Transformation Bevin Cody Corporate Sponsorship Manager Máire Scully Customer Solutions Megan Reid Creative Experience & Communications Manager Grace Kelly |
Meet the Team
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Designers
Carl Kennedy-Composer/Sound Designer
Carl trained at Academy of Sound in Dublin. He has worked on numerous theatre productions, working with venues and companies including Fishamble: The New Play Company, The Abbey, The Gaiety, Rough Magic, Landmark, Decadent, The Lyric Theatre, Theatre Lovett, ANU Productions, HOME Manchester, Prime Cut Productions, HotForTheatre, Speckintime, Guna Nua, Loose Canon, Peer to Peer, Siren, Broken Crow, Randolf SD and Theatre Makers. He has been nominated three times for the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Sound Design. He also composes music and sound design for radio, TV and video games.
Carl trained at Academy of Sound in Dublin. He has worked on numerous theatre productions, working with venues and companies including Fishamble: The New Play Company, The Abbey, The Gaiety, Rough Magic, Landmark, Decadent, The Lyric Theatre, Theatre Lovett, ANU Productions, HOME Manchester, Prime Cut Productions, HotForTheatre, Speckintime, Guna Nua, Loose Canon, Peer to Peer, Siren, Broken Crow, Randolf SD and Theatre Makers. He has been nominated three times for the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Sound Design. He also composes music and sound design for radio, TV and video games.
John Gunning - Lighting Designer
John is an alumni of Dublin Youth Theatre and The Lir where he learned how to make things up from nothing and then how to do it safely. As a lighting designer and a technician he has toured work to Australian opera houses and West Kerry parish halls. Since theaters closed John has run live-streamed script readings, hosted front of house on Zoom and gotten really into complicated ways of presenting on Instagram Live.
John is an alumni of Dublin Youth Theatre and The Lir where he learned how to make things up from nothing and then how to do it safely. As a lighting designer and a technician he has toured work to Australian opera houses and West Kerry parish halls. Since theaters closed John has run live-streamed script readings, hosted front of house on Zoom and gotten really into complicated ways of presenting on Instagram Live.
Maree Kearns - Costume Designer
Maree is a set and costume designer based in Ireland. She is a frequent collaborator with Fishamble having previously designed The Alternative, Rathmines Road, Invitation to a Journey and Maz and Bricks. She has designed sets and costumes for many of Ireland's other leading theatre companies including The Abbey Theatre, Anu Productions, CoisCeim Dance Theatre, Verdant Productions, The Cork Opera House and The Corn Exchange among others. Maree is also the course director for the MFA in Stage Design at the Lir Academy in Dublin.
Maree is a set and costume designer based in Ireland. She is a frequent collaborator with Fishamble having previously designed The Alternative, Rathmines Road, Invitation to a Journey and Maz and Bricks. She has designed sets and costumes for many of Ireland's other leading theatre companies including The Abbey Theatre, Anu Productions, CoisCeim Dance Theatre, Verdant Productions, The Cork Opera House and The Corn Exchange among others. Maree is also the course director for the MFA in Stage Design at the Lir Academy in Dublin.
Cast and Writers
Selfish
Written by Signe Lury
Performed by Martha Breen and Leah Minto
Theo and Connie don’t know what to do about the future. They’re not even sure we have a future (they’d rather not think about the future at all).
Photos by Ste Murray
Signe Lury is a writer, director, and actor, graduating this year from Trinity where she studied English & Drama. She's a co-founder of Gift Horse Theatre, and environmentally-conscious company with a focus on reimagining classic texts. Writing credits include We Are Not a Muse (Edinburgh Fringe) and Tess (Gift Horse). She veers between believing eco-theatre will change the world and believing the world is about to end. |
Martha Breen is an actor and theatremaker from Co. Wicklow. Recent credits include: Hecuba (Marina Carr, Rough Magic Theatre), Valhalla (MGM & Netflix), The Machine (Stoneface Films), Isolated Incidents (Workshed Films), Hothouse (Malaprop Theatre, Thisispopbaby). She graduated The Lir Academy in 2018. |
Leah Minto is an actor from Dublin. She graduated the Oxford School of Drama in 2019. Her theatre credits include Small by Holly Robinson, directed by Alice Malin in the Soho Theatre, London. She has also worked on a number of online theatre pieces throughout the poxy pandemic such as; What We Never Had to Lose by Dylan Coburn-Gray, Antigone by Colin Murphy and After Her by Alexandra Badea. |
A Journey
Written and Performed by Eva-Jane Gaffney
What do you do when you have nothing to sustain?
Photos by Ste Murray
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Eva-Jane Gaffney
Writer and Performer Eva-Jane Gaffney is an actor and voiceover artist from Dublin. Previous stage work includes HEROIN (2018), Rapids and Danny & Chantelle (Still Here). Screen credits include Wastewater, Rosie, Sing Street and Éirí amach Amú. She encourages people to speak what bits of Gaeilge they know no matter the level.
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Our Turn
Written by Niall Murphy
Performed by Steve Blount, Sorcha Fox & Meg O'Brien
Three generations on a journey, towards a future that is both uncertain and inevitable.
Photos by Ste Murray
Niall Murphy
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Niall is a writer of short stories, advertising copy, one (tiny) play, and many, many emails. When not writing or - let's be honest - staring into space, he enjoys a dip in the sea and watching the birds in his garden. He lives in Glenageary, Co. Dublin with his wife, Ali.
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Some theatre credits include; This Beautiful Virtual Village (Abbey Theatre) 14 Voices From The Bloodied Field ( Abbey Theatre) A Christmas Carol (Gate Theatre) The Bystander (Junk Ensemble) King of the Castle (Druid) Minding Frankie (Gaiety Theatre) My Dads Blind, Ghosts, Monsters & Dinosaurs, Only an Apple, Savoy, Tarry Flynn , The Wild Duck, Judas of the Gallarus, She Stoops to Folly and The Pauper (The Abbey Theatre). Hooked (Evil Little Genius, Irish Tour), Far Off Hills (Nomad Irish Tour), Swing (Intl.tour) and Tiny Plays for Ireland I & II (Fishamble: The New Play Company Kennedy Centre Wa., & IAC in NY), A Streetcar named Desire (Gate Theatre), Across the Lough (The Performance Corporation), Bogboy (Project Arts Centre & IAC, NY), I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (The Ark), Twenty Four (The Project Theatre), The Temple of Clown (Barabbas), The Night Garden, All My Sons (Northcott Theatre, Exeter), No Place Like Home (Tinderbox, Belfast),The Seagull (Corn Exchange),Oedipus (Gaiety), A Whistle in the Dark (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), Melody (Tall Tales Tour), The Sin Eaters (New Balance Dance), Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Blue Raincoat), One, Martin Assassin of his wife (Pan Pan), Dirty Dusting (Gaiety, Ireland & UK) Waiting for Lefty (65th Street Theatre, Seattle) and Blythe Spirit (The Theatre Factory, Texas). |
Sorcha is a poet, writer, actor and facilitator. She has written 2 performance poetry shows, Who am Ireland? and Remember. She wrote her first Spoken Word play; For Rachel - 2 Squirrels, as part of the Home Theatre Ireland project in Draíocht, Dublin 2018 for the Dublin Theatre Festival. She has been working since on a longterm project with women in addiction recovery with Ashleigh House and Draíocht Blanchardstown called Amplify thanks to Create Ireland. In 2019, with the Hawkswell Theatre Sligo, she took part in a creative residency with Palestinian poet Rafeef Ziadah culminating in a performance on Culture Night 2019 of a new piece called Medusa with live original music from Dee Armstrong and Lughaidh Armstrong Mayock. Medusa is now being developed further with the support of Hawkswell Sligo. Sorcha is a member of the team that organizes PalFest Ireland, an Irish arts festival in support of Palestine. In 2017, she travelled to Jenin Refugee Camp in Northern Palestine where she completed a course in Theatre and Cultural Resistance with The Freedom Theatre. She is currently working as a writing facilitator on Amir Abualrob’s project Taa Marbuta supported by Create Ireland. Sorcha is very happy to be working with Fishamble again on the brilliant Tiny Plays series. |
Meg graduated from the Gaiety School of Acting in 2016 where she was awarded the Gaiety Bursary and since has worked on a number of projects. Her theatre credits include: Shakers, Hostel16 as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival and Fishamble’s Inside the GPO. Meg’s film credits include Finding You which recently released across American and Australian cinemas. |
