The New Irish Writing collection includes x3 playscripts, our 3 most recent productions: Breaking by Amy Kidd, The Black Wolfe Tone by Kwaku Fortune and The Leap by Gavin Kostick.
Breaking by Amy Kidd
Welcome to the world of Sam and Charlie in Breaking, a groundbreaking first play by Amy Kidd. It looks like love but it tastes like control. How do we judge, when we can’t trust our own judgment? Who do we distrust and who gets the benefit of the doubt?
Fishamble’s Breaking asks fascinating and profound questions about how we navigate a world without any simple answers.
The Black Wolfe Tone by Kwaku Fortune
The Black Wolfe Tone is a thrilling new play about identity, raging against the machine, and how young men deal or don’t deal, with the darkness. A fast-paced journey that interrogates our culture of silence, the mind, and growing up mixed race in Ireland. At its heart, it’s about a young boy seeking forgiveness. The inner child wanting only to be acknowledged, loved, and held.
The Leap by Gavin Kostick
When Wendy jumps off the family piano and shatters her mam’s favourite glass table, she doesn’t just break the glass, she cracks open a whole other world. With the shards packed into her backpack and emotions bubbling inside her, Wendy follows her dad through a trapdoor and into another world. The Leap takes us to a place where ancient wrongs may be righted, new worlds are created and a girl’s sad heart may be cured. It might be possible to piece together what’s been broken. But only if she chooses.
