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Samuel Beckett's play, "Happy Days", translated for the first time into Irish by Micheal O Conghaile. Premiering at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2021 in a production by Sarah Jane Scaife for Company SJ.
This contemporary play is set in a rural agricultural community in the west of Ireland. The main character, May, contemplates her life and the constraints laid upon her as a young woman and a cattle dealer who lives by her own terms, and loves her cows, and her family.
Features "Cinderella", "Beauty and the Beast", and "Sleeping Beauty", adapted for the stage as family drama. This work is suitable for schools, colleges, and youth theatres.
'Bano's tale of London Muslims looking for love is ... superb. Reza says he resents being asked to choose between Britishness and being a Muslim. Such sentiments have been expressed before, but rarely with the propulsive plotting, inspiring intelligence and light touch of this hugely enjoyable play.' The Times
This full-length play, in both English and Irish, is a fantasy, set in a timeless place - it could be the past or the future - which intentionally melds some present day aspects within a classical or mythical atmosphere (a mix that is consciously mirrored in the language).
Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck, Viola disguises herself as a boy to serve the Duke of Illyria. Wooing a countess on his behalf, she is stunned to find herself the object of his beloved's affections.
The stage version of Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust - La Belle Sauvage, which is set twelve years before the epic His Dark Materials trilogy. Two young people and their daemons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt.