The Pride of Parnell Street

Written by Sebastian Barry Directed by Jim Culleton

The Pride of Parnell Street is a moving account of a marriage and a time that have both past.

Through interconnecting monologues an estranged couple, Janet and Joe, chart the intimacies of their love and the rupturing of their relationship, as well as their enduring love affair with Dublin city itself.

Sebastian Barry’s play explores, with vivid tenderness, the devastating effects of public and private acts of violence. This is an intimate, heroic tale of ordinary and extraordinary life on the streets of Dublin.

WINNER 1st Irish Best Production Award
WINNER 1st Irish Best Actress Award
WINNER MAMCA Best Play Award
WINNER MAMCA Best Actress Award

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This is rated 4 out of 5 stars

‘exquisitely phrased…intensely powerful conclusion… superb acting from Murray and Shiels’
The Times
‘The performances, from Mary Murray and Karl Shiels, are beautifully measured and the writing is very fine ’
Daily Telegraph
‘The play is quiveringly beautiful… quite simply magnificent ’
Sunday Independent
This is rated 4 out of 5 stars

‘Barry turns simple language into delicate, luminous poetry…With Jim Culleton’s spare direction and Murray and Shiels’s outstanding performances, it makes for a deeply affecting evening’
The Metro, London
This is rated 4 out of 5 stars

‘Both actors give excellent performances’
Time Out

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Mary Murray

Actor

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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.

Productions

Embargo Outrage GPO 1818 The Pride of Parnell Street Noah and the Tower Flower Tiny Plays for Ireland 2 Tiny Plays for Ireland The End of the Road Tiny Plays for Ireland & America Refuge

Karl Shiels 2007-2008

Aidan Kelly

Actor

Previously for Fishamble: Inside the GPO, The Pride of Parnell Street.

Theatre includes: Poor, A View from the Bridge (Gate theatre, Dublin); Fear of 13, The Man Who Had All The Luck (Donmar Warehouse); Salome, Treasure Island, The Silver Tassie ((National Theatre, London); Macbeth, Troilus and Cressida, The Merchant of Venice (RSC); Once the Musical (West End); Last Orders at the Dockside, The Country Girls, Macbeth, True West, Howie the Rookie, Doubt, The Plough and the Stars, Juno and the Paycock, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The Barbaric Comedies, The Burial at Thebes, Sucking Dublin (Abbey Theatre); The Misfits (Corn Exchange); Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Playboy of The Western World, The Good Father, Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Druid Theatre)

Tv/Film includes Say Nothing (Disney), Stay Close (Netflix), Warrior (HBO), Killing Eve, Call the Midwife, Fair City.

Productions

The Pride of Parnell Street Inside the GPO Refuge

Joe Hanley 2011

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Sebastian Barry

Writer

Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels and plays have won, among other awards, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Costa Book of the Year award, the Irish Book Awards Best Novel, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

He also had two consecutive novels, A Long Long Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008), shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize. He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children. Sebastian Barry is the 2018-2021 Irish Fiction Laureate.

Productions

On Blueberry Hill The Pride of Parnell Street

Jim Culleton

Artistic 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.

Productions

The Black Wolfe Tone Underneath Silent Embargo Before Breaking Certain Individual Women King Heaven The Treaty Tiny Plays 24/7 Outrage Duck Duck Goose On Blueberry Hill Maz & Bricks Forgotten Big Ole Piece of Cake The Nun’s Wood Little Thing, Big Thing Mainstream Rank Shorts Strandline Rathmines Road The Alternative Invitation to a Journey Tiny Plays for Ireland & America Tiny Plays for Ireland 2 Tiny Plays for a Brighter Future Tadhg Stray Wandered In The Bruising of Clouds The Pride of Parnell Street Noah and the Tower Flower Inside the GPO Spinning Tiny Plays for Ireland Handel’s Crossing From Both Hips Begotten Not Made The Gist of It Whereabouts Monged Pilgrims in the Park Radio Plays with RTÉ Lyric FM True Believers The Plains of Enna Y2K Festival Wired to the Moon The Carnival King Still The Buddhist of Castleknock Refuge For Dolores What If We Get To Be Happy Ireland Hero History

Marketa Puzman Producer

Sabine Dargent

Set & Costume Designer

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Sabine Dargent has won two Irish Times Best Set Design Awards and been nominated for two others. She is a freelance Set and Costume Designer, working mostly in theatre, with various directors and companies.

Sabine has designed a few times for Jim Culleton and Fishamble Theatre Company which she always enjoys! As well as other shows for Jim, including Monged, Strandline, Tiny Plays for Ireland 1 & 2, and Spinning, she designed set and costumes for The Pride of Parnell Street, also written by Sebastian Barry, and designed by the same team. Sabine works with Mikel Murfi very often, also for Michael Keegan Dolan, Conall Morrison, Enda Walsh, Paul Mc Enaney, Selina Cartmell, and a lot of others in Ireland and abroad. Some productions she has designed have been very successful and toured for a long time, such as Swan Lake, The Walworth Farce, Rian, The Pride of Parnell Street… S

he loves theatre, dance, and physical theatre, but has also designed for exhibitions, films, and has designed big events, such as the GAA 2016 celebration in Croke Park, and street theatre, such as the St Patrick’s Dublin Parade sections City Fusion and Brighter, taking care of the visuals for costumes, floats, props, and make up, for about 200 participants.

Productions

On Blueberry Hill Strandline Tiny Plays for Ireland 2 Tadhg Stray Wandered In The Pride of Parnell Street Spinning The Great Goat Bubble Tiny Plays for Ireland Monged Pilgrims in the Park

Mark Galione

Lighting Designer

Mark Galione’s designs in Ireland include works for Irish Modern Dance Theatre, CoisCéim, Dance Theatre of Ireland, The Peacock, Fíbín, Hands Turn, Classic Stage Ireland, Barabbas, Vesuvius, The Derry Playhouse, The Ark, Peer to Peer, Gonzo, Theatre Lovett, Second Age Theatre Company, Barnstorm, Riot and I’m Your Man for THISISPOPBABY and Fishamble: The New Play Company most recently Swing and Inside The GPO.

Recent TV includes Jack Lukeman 27 Club, All Ireland Schools Talent Search, TG4 – Country Music Legends and The All Porter Christmas Show RTE2. Mark is a staff Lighting Designer at High Res Lighting.

Productions

On Blueberry Hill Big Ole Piece of Cake Rank Shorts The Alternative Swing The Bruising of Clouds The Pride of Parnell Street Noah and the Tower Flower Inside the GPO Monged Tadhg Stray Wandered In Pilgrims in the Park Y2K Festival Still

Denis Clohessy

Sound Designer & Composer

Denis has previously worked with The Abbey Theatre, The Gate Theatre, Fishamble, Rough Magic, CoisCéim, Junk Ensemble, Corn Exchange, Northlight Theatre, Chicago and Beijing Children’s Art Theatre. He won the Irish Times theatre award for Best Soundscape in 2011 and 2019. He was also a nominee in 2015 for Junk Ensemble and Brokentalker’s ‘It Folds’. Denis was an associate artist with the Abbey in 2008 and was a participant on Rough Magic’s ADVANCE programme in 2012.

Composition for Film and Television includes the feature films One Night In Millstreet (Fastnet Films) Older than Ireland (Snack box Films), His and Hers (Venom Film), The Irish Pub (Atom Films) and the animation series Will Sliney’s Storytellers (Fastnet Films).

Productions

The Black Wolfe Tone Underneath Silent Embargo Before King The Treaty On Blueberry Hill Mainstream Strandline The Leap The Alternative The Pride of Parnell Street Spinning For Dolores

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