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CastJohn Doran
Naoise Dunbar Caitríona Ennis Liam Heslin Aidan Moriarty Roseanna Purcell |
A Play for Ireland
Duck Duck Goose by Caitríona Daly was developed as part of Fishamble's A Play for Ireland initiative between 2017 and 2019. This was a two-year process in association with Draíocht, The Everyman, Lime Tree Theatre/Belltable, Lyric Theatre, Pavilion Theatre, and Town Hall Theatre. This play is the second to have been produced by Fishamble through this programme.
Previous Performances
2021 Irish Tour
29 Sep - 3 Oct: PAVILION THEATRE, Dún Laoghaire, as part of DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL
7 - 9 Oct: DRAÍOCHT, Blanchardstown, as part of DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL
12 - 14 Oct: THE EVERYMAN, Cork
16 Oct: WATERGATE THEATRE, Kilkenny
19 - 20 Oct: LYRIC THEATRE, Belfast
23 Oct: BELLTABLE, Limerick
2022 Digital Presentation
9-16 Jan: DRAÍOCHT, Blanchardstown,
9-16 Jan: 1st Irish Festival, ORIGIN THEATRE
29 Sep - 3 Oct: PAVILION THEATRE, Dún Laoghaire, as part of DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL
7 - 9 Oct: DRAÍOCHT, Blanchardstown, as part of DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL
12 - 14 Oct: THE EVERYMAN, Cork
16 Oct: WATERGATE THEATRE, Kilkenny
19 - 20 Oct: LYRIC THEATRE, Belfast
23 Oct: BELLTABLE, Limerick
2022 Digital Presentation
9-16 Jan: DRAÍOCHT, Blanchardstown,
9-16 Jan: 1st Irish Festival, ORIGIN THEATRE
Production Shots
by Ste Murray
Cast Shots
by Leo Byrne
Meet the Team
Catríona Daly
Writer |
Caitríona Daly is a writer from Dublin. Her plays include Panned, Test Dummy (Irish Times Theatre Award Best New Play Nominee 2016) and Normal (Dublin Fringe 2017: Fishamble New Writing Award Nominee and First Fortnight Nominee).She was a participant in Six in the Attic, an Irish Theatre Institute initiative, from 2018-2019 and a participant on the inaugural Abbey Works programme in 2019. She is currently under commission with The Abbey Theatre and Fishamble: The New Play Company.
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Jim Culleton
Director |
Jim Culleton is the Artistic Director of Fishamble: The New Play Company, for which he has directed productions on tour throughout Ireland, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US. His productions for Fishamble have won Olivier, The Stage, Scotsman Fringe First, and Irish Times Best Director awards. Jim has also directed for the Abbey, the Gaiety, the Belgrade, 7:84 Scotland, Project, Amharclann de hÍde, Tinderbox, Passion Machine, the Ark, Second Age, Dundee Rep, CoisCéim/Crash Ensemble/GIAF, Frontline Defenders, Amnesty International, Little Museum of Dublin, Fighting Words, Soho Theatre, Scripts Festival, and Baptiste Programme. He has directed audio plays for Audible, BBC, RTÉ Radio 1, and RTÉ lyric fm. He has directed for Vessel and APA (Australia), TNL (Canada), Solas Nua, Mosaic, and Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Odyssey (LA), Origin, Irish Arts Center, New Dramatists, and 59E59 (Off-Broadway), as well as for Trafalgar Theatre Productions on the West End, and IAC/Symphony Space on Broadway. Jim has taught for NYU, NUI, GSA, Uversity, the Lir, Villanova, Notre Dame, UM, UMD, JNU, and TCD.
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John Doran
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John will next appear in The Teddybear’s Picnic directed by Louis Lovett for Theatre Lovett. Earlier this year he performed in Goodnight Egg, co-created by John, Ursula McGinn and Mollie Molumby. Goodnight Egg is a joyful new play with puppetry, miniatures and music, developed with support from The Arts Council's Project Award.
In 2020 he played the role of Finbarr Lowe opposite Caitriona Ennis in The Fall of the Second Republic by Michael West, to be directed by Annie Ryan for the Corn Exchange on the Abbey Theatre stage. His further stage credits include GYM / SWIM / PARTY directed by Louise Lowe for Dublin Theatre Festival 2019. |
Naoise Dunbar
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Naoise graduated from The Lir Academy in 2020.
Recent credits include: The Great Hunger, Fourteen Voices From The Bloodied Field (Understudy) for The Abbey Theatre, Wexford Playwrights Studio Readings for the Wexford Arts Centre. |
Caitríona Ennis
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Recent theatre work includes A Christmas Carol (The Gate Theatre), Country Girls (The Abbey Theatre’s touring production), Cuckoo (Soho Theatre, London), Ulysses ( Abbey Theatre), Porcelain (Peacock/Abbey), A Holy Show (Peacock), Dublin by Lamplight (Corn Exchange, Abbey Theatre). Test Dummy, nominated for Best Actress in the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2016 (WeGetHighOnThis in association with Theatre Upstairs), The Table (Performance Corporation in association with Boca Del Lupo, Magnetic North Festival in Vancouver), Wild Sky (Irish Arts Centre New York, and an Irish national tour), Scuttlers (Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester), Spinning, nominated for Best Supporting Actress in the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2015 (Fishamble: The New Play Company), Sluts (Edinburgh Fringe 2011), The Lark (Smock Alley Theatre) Narf(Smock Alley Theatre), Annabelle Star (The Ark), A Whistle in the Dark (winner: ISDA Award for Best Actress 2011), A Couple of Poor Polish Speaking Romanians (nominated for best actress, ISDA 2010). Caitriona has performed with ANU Productions, directed by Louise Lowe in The State Commemoration, Taking to the Bed, The Boys of Foley Street, nominated for Best Actress in the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2012, Thirteen,nominated for Best Actress at the Dublin Fringe Awards 2013 and Angel Meadow, winner of MTA Best Over All Production and Best Ensemble (HOME Manchester).
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Liam Heslin
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Liam trained at the Lir Academy. Theatre credits include: The Seagull (Druid), 14 Voices from the Bloodied Field (Abbey Theatre), DruidGregory (Druid), On the Outside (Druid), Asking For It (Landmark Productions), A Skull in Connemara (Oldham Coliseum), Zero Hour (ANU), The Lost O’ Casey (Abbey Theatre/ANU), The Shaughraun (Smock Alley Theatre), The Plough and the Stars (Lyric Hammersmith/Gaiety Theatre), The Good Father (Rise Productions), The Plough and the Stars (Abbey Theatre), On Corporation Street (ANU/Home Manchester), King Lear (Second Age Theatre Company), East of Berlin (Brinkmanship/Project Arts Centre), A Boy Called Nedd (Bitter Like a Lemon/Theatre Upstairs), Pals: The Irish at Gallipoli (ANU), Borstal Boy(Verdant Productions), The Clearing, Into the Woods, The Night Season, Mary Stuart, Scenes from the Big Picture, Poor Little Boy With No Arms, The Rover, The Suppliants, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Lir Academy). Film and television credits include: Dublin Oldschool, The Island of Evenings, Kaleidoscope, Fair City.
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Aidan Moriarty
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Aidan is a graduate of The Lir Academy in Dublin. Since graduating, he has worked on developments of What The Telly Saw and The Tempest, both directed by Lynne Parker. Whilst at The Lir, Aidan performed in productions of Blood Wedding (Dir. Caitriona McLaughlin), The Merchant of Venice (Dir. Lynne Parker) Anatomy of a Suicide (Dir. Tom Creed) and Comedy of Errors (Dir. Mikel Murfi). He also performed in Hostel 16( Dir. Raymond Keane) at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2016.
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Roseanna Purcell
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Theatre credits include: A Holy Show (Verdant Productions), My Romantic History (Verdant Productions), Midsummer (Project Arts Centre), Copper Face Jacks: The Musical (Olympia Theatre), Test Copy (Self Penned. Nenagh Arts Centre), Signatories (Verdant Productions), The Bridge Below The Town (Livin' Dred), Beyond The Brooklyn Sky (Red Kettle), AnnaBellaEema (Rough Magic), Birdy (Peacock Theatre, Dublin Fringe Best Ensemble Award), War of Attrition (Devious Theatre, Dublin Fringe Best Female Performer nomination) and Perfidia (Theatre Upstairs). Film and TV credits include: Don't Go Where I Can't Find You (Samson Films), Joan Verra (JV Productions/Blinder Films), Fair City (RTE), Red Rock (Virgin Media 1/BBC), Take Me Swimming (Feenish Productions) and Nobody's Perfect (BigOMedia). Roseanna is currently developing her second play Muck following a work-in-development performance with Axis Theatre as part of the First Fortnight Festival 2021. She is also under commission from The Source Arts Centre via an Arts Council commission award. Roseanna is a graduate of The Gaiety School of Acting and University College Cork.
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Saileog O'Halloran
Costume Design |
Theatre credits include:The Secret Space (ANU Productions), To The Lighthouse (Cork Everyman & Hatch Productions), The Great Hunger (Abbey Theatre), The Fall of the Second Republic (Abbey Theatre & Corn Exchange), Danse Macabre (Macnas 2019), Becketts Room (Dead Centre), The Alternative (Fishamble), The Bluffers Guide to Suburbia (Cork Midsummer & DTF 2019), The Anvil (ANU & Manchester International Festival),The Misfits (Corn Exchange), Trial of the Century’s (Dublin Fringe 2018), Macnas 2018, Copperface Jacks the Musical (Verdant), GPO1818 (Fishamble), The Half of It (MOMMO), The Shitstorm (Dublin Fringe), The Seagull (Corn Exchange) To Hell In A Handbag (Show In A Bag/Tiger Dublin Fringe), Town is Dead (Peacock Theatre), Embodied (Dublin Dance Festival), Shibboleth (Peacock Theatre), Chekhov’s First Play (Dead Centre), Thirteen, Irish Times Judges Special Award (ANU Productions) and Wake (Chamber Made Opera).
Film and television credits include:Dont Go Where I Cant Find You (Samson Films), The Passion (Little Rose Films), Kathleen was Here (Treasure Entertainment), Algorithm (Copper Alley & Hail Mary Pictures), Bainne (Anabasis Films), Cynthia (Copper Alley Productions) Procession (925 Productions), The Trap (Treasure Entertainment), Away With The Fairies (Treasure Entertainment), Pebbles (Jonathan Shaw Dir), Lost in the Living (Ballyrogan Films), Children of the Revolution (RTÉ), and The Inquiry (DCTV) |
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Eimear Farrell
Associate Costume Designer |
Eimear Farrell has both a Costume and Fashion background including design and styling for independent theatre and film productions.
Eimear has lent her skills in Costume design and Wardrobe Supervision for numerous theatre, TV and film companies in Dublin and around the world. She has also worked in a number of different design and costume roles on many award winning short films and music videos. Over the last decade she has worked along side the Abbey Theatre and Supervised large tours for companies such as Riverdance in Europe, China, America, Japan. |
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Carl Kennedy
Music & Sound Design |
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.
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