VENUES

Bewley's Café Theatre

OVERVIEW

Address

Bewley's Cafe, Second Floor, 78-79 Grafton Street, Dublin 2, Co. Dublin, D02 K033

Email

info@bewleyscafetheatre.com

Website

www.bewleyscafetheatre.com

Phone

+353 (0) 86 878 4001

Artistic Director
David Horan
Technical Manager
Colm Maher
Administrator
Iseult Golden
Box Office Phone
+353 (0) 86 878 4001
Programming Policy
Bewley's Cafe Theatre is the only year-round venue dedicated to producing Lunchtime Theatre. As a production company there is a particular emphasis on staging new Irish writing, comedy and lesser-known works by established authors. All productions are easily and readily available to tour both nationally and internationally, generally featuring small casts and minimal set requirements.
Resident Company
Bewley’s Cafe Theatre

NEW IRISH PLAYS PRODUCED AT BEWLEY'S CAFÉ THEATRE

Play Title	Playwright
A Fishpond All On Fire	Tif Eccles
A New Day	Gerard Lee
All Around My Head	Daniel Reardon
Appropriate	Sarah-Jane Scott
Are You Listening To Me Gaybo?	Mary Halpin
As Married As We Get	Kevin McGee
Baggage	Rebecca Roper
Baked Beans & Raspberry Ripple	Iris Park
Before Colour	Peter Dunne (1)
Beowulf: The Blockbuster!	Bryan Burroughs
Black Wednesday	Gavin Kostick
Brendan Galileo for Europe	Fionn Foley
Charolais	Noni Stapleton
Cirque des Rêves	Katie McCann
Cockroach Poetry	Barry McKinley
Coming Up Roses	Juha Siltanen
Connected	Will Irvine Karl Quinn
Couch	Siofra Campbell
Counter Culture	Katie O'Kelly
Don't Forget to Breathe	Norma Sheahan
Dublin Oldschool	Emmet Kirwan
Election Night	Donal Courtney
Elysium Nevada	Barry McKinley
Fight Night	Gavin Kostick
Fireworks	Iseult Golden
Fred & Alice	John Sheehy
Fred and Jane	Sebastian Barry
Fun with Bamboo	Daniel Reardon
Hedy Lamarr and the Easter Rising	Michael James Ford
Hollywood Valhalla	Aidan Harney
Hue and Cry	Deirdre Kinahan
Ireland's Call	John Connors
Is There a Balm in Gilead?	Michael Harding
Jericho	Devised by MALAPROP theatre.
Jimmy Joyced!	Donal O'Kelly
Joxer Daly Esq.	Eddie Naughton Sean O'Casey A new play based on the character of Joxer Daly from Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock.
Just Here	Eugene O'Brien
Kicking All the Boxes	Liz Fitzgibbon
Last Year	Gavin Kostick Based on an original idea by Maeve McGrath
Learning to Drive	Sean Moffatt
Life After Love	Billie Traynor
Life Shop Till You Drop	Alice Coghlan Devised in collaboration with Clodagh Reid.
Lipstick on the Host	Aidan Mathews Adapted for the stage by Caroline Fitzgerald and Colette Proctor.
Looking Deadly	Niamh McGrath Keith Singleton
Lovely Betty	Devised by Karen Egan and the company.
Mangan's Last Gasp	Gerard Lee
Mary Motorhead	Mark O'Halloran
Missing Football	Peter McKenna
My Left Nut	Oisín Kearney Michael Patrick
Nuts and Bolts	Fiona Looney
Payback!	Maria McDermottroe Marion O'Dwyer
Peep	Jodi Gray
Pickled	Jeananne Crowley Drina Kinsley
Pocket Music	Gavin Kostick
Raccoon	Tom Hall
Rebecca's Robin	Deirdre Kinahan
Rebel Rebel	Robbie O'Connor Aisling O'Mara
Romantic Friction	Michelle Read
Ruby Tuesday	Rose Henderson
Sequin Dreams	Michelle Moran
Setanta Murphy Part One	Garrett Keogh
Small Plastic Wars	Pat McGrath
So Long, Sleeping Beauty	Isobel Mahon
Sure Thing	Jed Murray Eric O'Brien
Swing	Steve Blount Peter Daly Gavin Kostick Janet Moran
Take Off Your Cornflakes	Rose Henderson Pat Nolan (3)
That Look	Iris Park
The Auld Fella	Michael Glenn Murphy
The Centre of the Universe	John Doran
The Head of Red O'Brien	Mark O'Halloran
The Hole	John Sheehy
The Humours of Bandon	Margaret McAuliffe
The Importance of Being Honest	Billie Traynor
The Lost Letters of a Victorian Lady	Michelle Read
The Matador	Shane O'Reilly
The Quiet Land	Malachy McKenna
The Sit	Gavin Kostick
The Tower	Joe Joyce
The Wheelchair On My Face	Sonya Kelly
The Wickedness of Oz	Kate Gilmore
Those Sick And Indigent	Alan O'Regan
Tic	Elizabeth Moynihan
Tick My Box	Devised and written by Inis Theatre Company
To Hell in a Handbag	Helen Norton Jonathan White
Too Much of Nothing	Mark O'Halloran David Wilmot
Twinkletoes	Jennifer Johnston
Typhoid Mary	Eithne McGuinness
Waiting for IKEA	Georgina McKevitt Jacinta Sheerin
Walk For Me	Kate Stanley Brennan Also known as MissKate (songwriting credits).
Whatever Happened to Joe Magill?	Lorcan Roche

ADAPTATIONS/TRANSLATIONS

Play Title	Playwright
47 Roses	Peter Sheridan Peter Sheridan Adapted by Peter Sheridan from his memoir of the same name.
Flat in Ringsend	Jim Culleton Maeve Binchy Adapted by Jim Culleton from the original short story by Maeve Binchy.
Oscar and the Sphinx	Glynis Casson Michael James Ford Ada Leverson Adapted from the works of Ada Leverson.
The Birthday of the Infanta	Bairbre Ní Chaoimh Oscar Wilde
The Bother With The Brother	Val O'Donnell Flann O'Brien
The Man with the Flower in his Mouth	Frank McGuinness Luigi Pirandello A version by Frank McGuinness of the original play by Pirandello.
The Party	Sophie Motley Caitríona Ní Mhurchú Anton Chekhov
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Alice Coghlan Oscar Wilde A new adaptation of Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel.
The Poe Show	Michael James Ford Edgar Allan Poe
The Remarkable Rocket	Michael James Ford Oscar Wilde Adapted from the original story by Oscar Wilde
The Star Trap	Michael James Ford Bram Stoker Adapted from the original story by Bram Stoker.
The Stronger	Frank McGuinness August Strindberg A version of the original play by August Strinberg.