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.
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.
Selfish by Signe Lury
Theo and Connie are unsure about their future. They’re not even sure we have a future (they’d rather not think about the future at all).
Cast & Creatives
Signe Lury
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
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
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.
Productions
Photo Credits: Ste Murray
A Journey Written & Performed by Eva-Jane Gaffney
What do you do when you have nothing to sustain?
Cast & Creatives
Eva-Jane Gaffney
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.
Photo Credits: Ste Murray
Our Turn Written by Niall Murphy
Three generations on a journey, towards a future that is both uncertain and inevitable.
Cast & Creatives
Niall Murphy
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.
Sorcha Fox
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.
Productions
Meg O’Brien
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.
Productions
Photo Credits: Ste Murray