Mary Murray in Fishamble's OUTRAGE, Image by Leo Byrne & Publicis
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Fishamble: The New Play Company Presents OUTRAGE By Deirdre Kinahan Following the story of two sisters, OUTRAGE is a play that explores the true nature of women’s role in the Irish revolutionary wars and in particular the Civil War in 1922. Alice and Nell play key roles in organising civic resistance and the propaganda war. They are fervent, they are funny, they are human and they - like everyone else in Ireland - become deeply conflicted as the country spins toward a shattering Civil clash that split the nation, and continues to haunt Irish politics, society and culture to this day. OUTRAGE challenges the historical narrative we have all grown up with. OUTRAGE is written out of the true testimony of women we have never heard about. OUTRAGE is a theatrical hurricane of empathy, action and truth. |
OUTRAGE is produced by Fishamble: The New Play Company. It was presented in partnership with Dublin Port Company, and Meath County Council, during St Patrick’s Festival 2022, as part of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media’s Decade of Centenaries programme. Fishamble is delighted to revive this highly acclaimed production on national tour, to audiences throughout the country, with support of an Arts Council Touring grant.
Listen to Deirdre Kinahan and Jim Culleton chatting at Arena - RTÉ Radio 1 about OUTRAGE (05:22- 22:48)
Listen to Deirdre Kinahan and Jim Culleton chatting at Arena - RTÉ Radio 1 about OUTRAGE (05:22- 22:48)
About the production
Duration: 80 minutes, no interval
Age guidance: 14+
Content Warning: Includes depiction of violent sexual assault
If you have been affected by the themes of this play, please see the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre website for resources.
Age guidance: 14+
Content Warning: Includes depiction of violent sexual assault
If you have been affected by the themes of this play, please see the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre website for resources.
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CastNaoise Dunbar
Caitriona Ennis Mary Murray |
Upcoming Productions
Reviews
★★★★
'director Jim Culleton and the tremendous cast succeed in balancing the factual background with vivid, gripping drama'
The Guardian
★★★★
‘staged incredibly well…sensitive direction…fine performances’
The Irish Times
'A superb piece of theatre which is superbly acted and directed...wonderfully realised'
Sunday Indepedent
★★★★
‘strong performances and top class direction…powerful’
The Arts Review
'director Jim Culleton and the tremendous cast succeed in balancing the factual background with vivid, gripping drama'
The Guardian
★★★★
‘staged incredibly well…sensitive direction…fine performances’
The Irish Times
'A superb piece of theatre which is superbly acted and directed...wonderfully realised'
Sunday Indepedent
★★★★
‘strong performances and top class direction…powerful’
The Arts Review
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Post-show Discussion |
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Playscripts of OUTRAGE by Deirdre Kinahan are available as part of
RAGING 3 PLAYS: 7 YEARS OF WARFARE IN IRELAND also including Wild Sky and Fishamble's Embargo |
To accompany Fishamble's premiere tour of OUTRAGE, Fishamble has recorded a post-show discussion with playwright Deirdre Kinahan, director Jim Culleton and Dr. Mary McAuliffe, historian & director of Gender Studies at UCD.
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RAGING: 3 Plays, 7 years of Warfare in Ireland by Deirdre Kinahan
€14.00 - €20.00
Published by Nick Hern, 2022 RAGING: 3 Plays, 7 years of Warfare in Ireland includes Fishamble's OUTRAGE, Wild Sky and Fishamble's Embargo, by playwright Deirdre Kinahan. |
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Previous performances
2024
31 October & 1 November, Theatre Royal, Waterford
5 November, Town Hall Theatre, Galway
7-8 November, Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge
12-13 November, Belltable, Limerick
15 November, glór, Ennis
2022
17-19 March, Kells Courthouse, Meath
23 March - 3 April, The Pumphouse, Dublin Port
14-23 April, ONLINE
Production Shots
by Pat Redmond
Meet the Team
Deirdre Kinahan
Writer |
Deirdre Kinahan is an award-winning playwright. She is a member of Aosdána, Ireland's elected affiliation of outstanding artists. Deirdre collaborates with artists and theatres all over the world, is literary associate to Meath County Council and has a large canon of regularly produced plays to her credit and is published by Nick Hern Books.
Best Known Plays include: The Saviour, The Unmanageable Sisters, Rathmines Road, Moment, Halcyon Days, Bogboy, Hue & Cry, Spinning and her Irish Revolutionary Trilogy Wild Sky, Embargo and Outrage. Deirdre works predominantly with the Abbey Theatre, Landmark Productions and Fishamble Theatre Company in Ireland but also collaborates with theatres in the UK, Europe and America. Recent works include The Saviour for Landmark Productions & Irish Repertory Theatre NYC 2023, An Old Song Half Forgotten for the Abbey Theatre & Sofft productions 2023, TEMPESTA Glassmask Theatre/Cork Midsummer Festival 2024, In the Middle of the Fields for Solas Nua Washington DC 2021, The Visit for Draiocht & Dublin Theatre Festival 2021/22, Bloody Yesterday 2022 for Glassmask Theatre. Deirdre has a number of new Theatre and Screen projects in development, currently under commission to Staatstheater Mainz in Germany, Fishamble in Dublin and NOMAD touring group. She also has years of experience as a producer and enjoys curating or participating in multi-genre artistic projects for Meath County Council and other national festivals/events. Representation: Emily Hickman at The Agency London. |
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 many Irish and international awards, including Olivier, The Stage, Scotsman Fringe First, and Irish Times Best Director awards. Jim has also directed for Audible, the Abbey, the Gaiety, the Belgrade, 7:84 Scotland, Project, Amharclann de hÍde, Tinderbox, The Passion Machine, the Ark, Second Age, Dundee Rep, Draíocht, CoisCéim/Crash Ensemble/GIAF, RTÉ Radio 1, Frontline Defenders, Amnesty International, Little Museum of Dublin, Fighting Words, RTÉ lyric fm, Soho Theatre, Scripts Festival, Baptiste Programme, Vessel and APA (Australia), TNL (Canada), Solas Nua and Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Odyssey (LA), Origin, Irish Arts Center 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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Naoise Dunbar
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Naoise trained at The Lir Academy in Dublin.
Theatre credits include: Outrage, Duck Duck Goose (Fishamble); Tartuffe, 14 Voices from the Bloodied Field, The Great Hunger (The Abbey Theatre); The Cavalcaders, The Pendulum Moon (Druid Theatre Company) Tempesta (Cork Midsummer Festival and Sugarglass); Of A Midnight Meeting (Bewleys Café Theatre); Staging The Treaty (ANU Productions); The Whispering Chair (Livin' Dred) The Last Stand, Teddy, Forgive Me Father, Pigs 3 Wolf 1, The Unkillable Irishman (Wexford Arts Centre). Film and television credits include: Lakelands (Fís Éireann and Harp Media); Baths (Princep Productions). |
Caitríona Ennis
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Caitríona most recently filmed Richard Linklater’s upcoming feature BLUE MOON alongside Ethan Hawke and Andrew Scott, and a lead role as Alor in LIKE ME, a Screen Ireland Focus Short directed by Aisling Brady.
She will next play the role of Alice in the Fishamble tour of OUTRAGE by Deirdre Kinahan and directed by Jim Culleton. Caitríona’s further screen credits include the role of Erica alongside Elva Trill and Stephen Jones in the TV series NORTHERN LIGHTS, directed by Tom Hall and Ruth Meehan for Deadpan Pictures & Lionsgate; the TV series CLEAN SWEEP alongside Charlene McKenna and Barry Ward, directed by Ronan Burke; KISSING CANDICE alongside Ann Skelly and Lydia McGuinness, directed by Aoife McArdle; and WE OURSELVES directed by Paul Mercier. Her extensive theatre credits include DUCK DUCK GOOSE by Caitríona Daly for Fishamble: The New Play Company; 14 VOICES FROM THE BLOODIED FIELD, for the Abbey Theatre; and THE FALL OF THE SECOND REPUBLIC directed by Annie Ryan for the Corn Exchange. Most recently Caitríona toured with the Druid Theatre Co.for their production of DRUID O’CASEY: THE DUBLIN PLAYS, directed by Garry Hynes. Caitríona reprised her role as Minnie Powell in the Druid Theatre National Tour of THE SHADOW OF A GUNMAN, directed by Garry Hynes. |
Mary Murray
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Mary's stage performances have toured Europe, China and the United States. She received Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards with MAMCA, The First Irish Theatre Festival in New York and The Irish Times.
She has over 60 screen credits. She was nominated for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress at the Irish Film and Television Awards for her role as Janet in Love Hate. Other notable productions include Valhalla, Penny Dreadful, Adam and Paul, The Magdalene Sisters, Dead Still and Let the Wrong One In. She voiced numerous animations and radio plays and she’s the recipient of the Best Actress Award at the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2023 for her performance in the Pride of Parnell Street, produced by Fishamble Theatre Company. Mary is the director of Visions Drama School www.visionsdrama.com You can find out more about her on her website www.marymurrayirishactress.com |
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Maree Kearns
Set Design |
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.
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Carl Kennedy
Composer & Sound Designer |
Carl has worked on numerous theatre productions, working with venues and companies including Fishamble: The New Play Company, The Gaiety, The Abbey, The Gate, Rough Magic, Landmark, Decadent, The Lyric Theatre, Theatre Lovett, ANU Productions, HOME Manchester, Prime Cut Productions, HotForTheatre, Speckintime, Guna Nua and Peer to Peer among others. 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. He was composer and sound designer for Mr Wall on RTÉJr which was shortlisted for an IMRO Radio Award in the 2018 drama category. Game titles include Curious George, Curious about Shapes and Colors, Jelly Jumble, Too Many Teddies, Dino Dog and Leonardo and His Cat. TV credits include sound design for 16 letters (Independent Pictures/RTE) and SFX editing and foley recording for Centenary (RTE).
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Catherine Fay
Costume Design |
Catherine designs for Theatre, Opera and Dance. She has designed The Treaty and Embargo for Fishamble Theatre Company. Her most recent work is Portia Coughlan (The Abbey Theatre) iGirl (The Abbey Theatre). Elektra (Irish National Opera) Walls and Windows (The Abbey Theatre) 14 Voices (The Abbey Theatre), Transmission (Little Wolf) for DFF 2020; Much Ado about Nothing (Rough Magic Theatre Company); Näher . . . nearer, closer, sooner (Liz Roche Dance Company); The Return of Ulysses (Opera Collective Ireland); and The Plough and the Stars (Lyric Hammersmith/Abbey Theatre). She designed Girl Song (United Fall); 12 Minute Dances, Totems (Liz Roche Dance Company); Owen Wingrave (Opera Collective Ireland); Acis and Galatea (Opera Theatre Company); The Importance of Nothing (Pan Pan Theatre Company); and Owen Wingrave (Opera Bastille, Paris, 2016). She has designed many productions for The Abbey Theatre including The Plough and the Stars (Irish Times Theatre Award nomination 2017), Our Few and Evil Days (Irish Times Theatre Award nomination 2015), Henry IV Part I (Irish Times/ESB Theatre Award nomination 2007). For The Gate, she has designed Romeo and Juliet (Irish Times Theatre Award nomination 2016) and The Threepenny Opera. Other work includes Breaking Dad (Landmark Productions, Irish Times Theatre Award nomination 2015); and Dogs (Emma Martin Dance, Winner Best Production and Best Design for ABSOLUT Fringe Festival 2012).
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Kevin Smith
Lighting Designer |
Kevin trained at The Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin. This is the fourth time he has a designed a Deidre Kinahan premier, having previously designed Spinning with Fishamble, These Halcyon Days with Tall Tales & Landmark Productions which won a Fringe First in Edinburgh and Wild Sky with Ten42 Productions.
His other theatre design credits include Class with Inis & Abbey Theatre which recently won a Fringe First in Edinburgh. Also Monsters Dinosaurs & Ghosts (Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage), Rhinoceros (Blue Raincoat Theatre Co), Scenes from The Big Picture, In The Next Room, Three Winters, La Ronde (The Lir), Barney Carey Gets His Wings (Barnstorm), Beowulf The Blockbuster (Pat Moylan Productions), The Family Hoffmann Mystery Palace (The MAC & Cahoots NI), Driving Miss Daisy, Moll (Gaiety), The Faerie Thorn, Puckoon (Big Telly) His dance design credits include 12 Minute Dances (Liz Roche Co.), Coppelia (Ballet Ireland), Manefesto (Maiden Voyage), He also designed An Outside Understanding with Croí Glan which was nominated for Best Design Absolute Fringe). Kevin's Opera design credits include Vampirella, Saints & Sinners and Clori Tirsi é Fileno with RIAM. and Flatpack (Ulysses Opera) which was nominated for an Irish Times Best Opera Production |
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Sophie Flynn
Stage Manager |
Sophie’s stage managing credits include; The First Child, Medicine, Grief Is The Thing With Feathers, Happy Days,Postcards from the Ledge, Arlington, Once, Ballyturk, Breaking Dad, Talk of The Town, The Second Violinist (Landmark), Three Short Comedies, The Seagull, Druid Gregory, Cherry Orchard, The Beacon, Epiphany, Richard III, King Of The Castle, Beauty Queen of Leenane (Druid).Translations (National Theatre). The Field (Lane Productions). The Heiress, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Pride and Prejudice, An Ideal Husband, The Threepenny Opera, Enemy of The People, Krapps Last Tape (The Gate Theatre). Trad, The Dead School (Livin Dred).
Her film and television credits include Gilgamesh (Macnas), St Patrick’s Day Parade ‘19, Dancing With The Stars(Shinawil), Play Next Door (VIP), Lunasa (RTE), Obama Concert, College Green (MCD), Magners League Awards, Vodafone GAA Awards, Take Me Out, The Childline Concert, IFTA Awards (Observe), Deal or no Deal (Endamol Productions), The All Ireland Talent Show (Tyrone Productions). |
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Síle Mahon
Assistan Stage Manager |
Síle is a graduate of The Lir National Academy of Dramatic Art where she studied a BA in Stage Management and Technical Theatre for 3 years. Her most recent work includes Assistant Stage Manager on 'The Treaty' with Fishamble: The New Play Company, Stage Manager on 'Man Down' with Róisín Whelan Dance and Costume Assistant on 'The Book of Names' with ANU Productions. She has also worked on many theatre productions in her time in The Lir Academy. Her work in training involves: Stage Manager on 'Midwinter', 'Julius Caesar' and 'As You Like It'. Assistant Stage Manager on 'Summerfolk' and 'Salome, or the Cult of the Clitoris: A Historical Phallusy'. Costume Supervisor on 'The Unreturning' and Chief LX on 'Anatomy of a Suicude'.
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