Newtowncashel Drama 2000 - 2026
Sive - 2026
John B. Keane
Sive (1959) is a powerful Irish folk-drama by John B. Keane set in rural 1950s Kerry, focusing on the dark consequences of greed, poverty, and arranged marriage. It follows a young orphan girl, Sive, sold by her weak uncle and greedy aunt to an elderly farmer for money,
defying her desire for a younger man, Liam Scuab.
Producer
Thomasheen Seán Rua
Pats Bocock
Corthalawn
Dermot Healy
Syl Healy
James Skelly
Senan Dermody
Liam Scuab
Seán Dota
Brian Kelly
Tony Tiernan
Larry Gallagher
Lucy Flynn
Eabha Healy
Barbara Martin
Marie Fallon
Tom Conlon
Sive
Nanna Glavin
Mena Glavin
Mike Glavin
Unforgiven - 2025
John McDwyer
Bachelor brothers P.J. and Seamie await their sick father’s death for different reasons.
Meanwhile, neighbour Mary is nursing her ill mother towards death under the watchful eye of P.J., who has big plans for the aftermath of the deaths.
When the brothers’ father dies, another brother, Eamonn, comes back from America for the funeral. Will his arrival wreck P.J.’s plans, and why did he leave in the first place?
Unforgiven is the third play in John McDwyer’s Leitrim Trilogy (with Lovely Leitrim and Callaghan’s Place), and is described by the author as "a mad play about mad people who live content in their own madness".
Whereas the previous plays were serious with funny moments, Unforgiven is "an all-out comedy with a few serious moments".
Leitrim language tumbles off the pages towards a final denouement which will leave the audience hooting with delight.
Dermot Healy
Tom Conlon
Brian Kelly
Barbara Martin
James Skelly
Producer
PJ
Seamus
Mary
Eamon
A Skull in Connemara - 2024
Martin McDonagh
A Skull in Connemara is a dark comedy by Martin McDonagh about Mick Dowd,
a gravedigger in rural Ireland tasked with disinterring bodies to make room in a crowded cemetery.
Rumours surround the death of his wife, Oona, who died years prior in a car crash.
When he is forced to exhume her remains, local gossip turns into accusation.
Dermot Healy, Sean Farrell
Tom Conlon
Barbara Martin
Brian Kelly
Sylvester Healy
Producers
Mick Dowd
Mary-johnny Rafferty
Mairtin Hanlon
Thomas Hanlon
No Production - 2023
Cat Among Pidgeons - 2022
Cat Among the Pigeons is a classic farce play adapted from Georges Feydeau's 1907 French comedy Le Dindon.
It revolves around wealthy heiresses, a flamboyant Spanish general, and treacherous lovers thrown into a whirlwind of greed, lies, and farcical situations.
Jack Pidgeon (Jack G)
Priest
Jack Pidgeon (Jack)
Florence English
Sylvester Healy
Diarmuid Walsh
Brian Kelly
Carmel Kelly
Jack Pidgeon (Jack S)
Girl
Dr. Owen Kilroy (O.K.)
Joshua Healy
Eabha Healy
Ronan Muldoon
Dermot Healy, Sean Farrell
Tony Tiernan
Orla O’Brien
Barbara Martin
Producers
Justin Howard
Connie English
Wendy Dawe
Cat Among Pidgeons - 2020
Cat Among the Pigeons is a classic farce play adapted from Georges Feydeau's 1907 French comedy Le Dindon.
It revolves around wealthy heiresses, a flamboyant Spanish general, and treacherous lovers thrown into a whirlwind of greed, lies, and farcical situations.
Producers
Maisie McGarry
Betty McGarry
Hughie Mc Garry
Sean Farrell, Dermot Healy
Barbara Martin
Carolyn Egan
Ronan Muldoon
Joe Duggan
Dermot Delaney
Bernie Burns
Garda Niamh Ryan
Lorraine McGarry
Dermot Healy
Diarmuid Walsh
Sorcha Hanlon
Martina Mulvihill
Carmel Kelly
Mammy’s Boy - 2019
Hughie McGarry is the apple of his mother Maisie’s eye.
He returns after a two-year absence with plenty of debts, a dog-grooming girlfriend in tow and his sights set on the family home.
But Hughie’s sister Betty and Maisie’s friend Joe see through him and try to spoil his schemes.
Joe Duggan
Dermot Delaney
Bernie Burns
Garda Niamh Ryan
Lorraine McGarry
Dermot Healy
Diarmuid Walsh
Sorcha Hanlon
Martina Mulvihill
Carmel Kelly
Sean Farrell, Dermot Healy
Barbara Martin
Carolyn Egan
Ronan Muldoon
Producers
Maisie McGarry
Betty McGarry
Hughie Mc Garry
The Beauty Queen of Leenane - 2018
The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag, her manipulative ageing mother.
Mag's interference in her daughter's first and possibly final chance of a loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that lead inexorably towards the play's inevitable dénouement.
Dermot Healy
Barbara Martin
Orla O’Brien
Sean Farrell
Sylvester Healy
Producer
Mag
Maureen
Pato
Ray
Moll - 2017
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Producer
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The Field - 2016
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Producer
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Too Close to Home - 2015
James Ryan is an aspiring playwright, who is trying to write a three-act play. With inspiration at a low ebb, James decides to write about something he knows.
He discovers that Trish’s parents, Kevin and Netta are going through a rough patch in their marriage and decides that this would make a good plot for his play.
And since they all despise his playwriting, he presumes they will never see it.
Dermot Healy
David Hanley
Orla O’Brien
Keith Carberry
Producer
James Ryan
Trish Ryan
Declan Ryan
Barbara Martin
John Kenny
Katie Kenny
Laura Healy
Netta Mitchell
Kevin Mitchell
Biddy Hunt
Rosaleen Flavin
Gda Patrick Doyle
Justin Tweedy
Patrick Farrell
Diarmuid Walsh
Philadelphia Here I Come - 2014
Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and his humiliating job at his father's grocery shop, with his frustrated love for Kathy Doogan who married a richer, more successful young man and with the total absence of prospect and opportunity in his life at home, Gareth O'Donnell has accepted his aunt's invitation to come to Philadelphia. On the eve of his departure, despite the fantasies Gar entertains of life in America, all it take to stop him leaving would be one word of affection from his father or Kathy, or a word of genuine understanding from his friends.
Producer
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Callaghan’s Place - 2013
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Producer
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Stella By Starlight - 2012
A wry and compassionate look at a couple coming to terms with shattered dreams, the internet and life in the Wicklow hills.
Liam Finnegan
Dermot Healy
Orla O’Brien
Sile Delaney
Producer
Dermot Hudson
Stella Hudson
Tara Hudson
Barbara Martin
Austin Healy
Keith Carberry
Geraldine
Paul
Tony
Canaries - 2011
The hit two-act farce follows a group of eccentric Irish holidaymakers on a package trip to the Canary Islands
whose seemingly relaxing getaways quickly unravel into chaos, affairs, and hilarious secrets.
Producer
Contessa
Carlos
Marie
Liam Finnegan
Olive McCormack
Conan Casey
Laura Dermody
Samantha
Gunter
Erica
Fergus
Madaline
Una Mulvihill
Thomas Dennigan
Sile Delaney
Austin Healy
Gillian Brogan
Brian Mulvihill
Liam Finnegan
Orla O’Brien
Dermot Healy
Tommy
Dad
Jane
Richard
The Rale McCoy - 2010
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Producer
Amen
Robbie John McCoy
Rose Ann McCoy
Billy McCandles
R.U.C. Sergent Brown
Maggie Robinson
Major Aubrey Bartner
Liam Finnegan
Orla O’Brien
Brian Mulvihill
Gillian Brogan
Dermot Healy
Austin Healy
Grainne Gallagher
Conan Casey
Many Young Men of Twenty - 2009
A musical play which deals with emigration and the lack of jobs at home that forced people to leave their native Ireland for England.
Producer
Peg Finnerty
Tom Hannigan
Seelie Hannigan
Aloysius
Frankie
Liam Finnegan
Orla O’Brien
Sylvester Healy
Fiona Farrell
Jack Farrell
Dermot Healy
Danger Mulally
Dawheen Timmineen Din
Maynan
Kevin
Dinny
Maurice Browne
Brian Mulvihill
Francis Killian
Kathleen Mc Gann
Keith Carberry
Austin Healy
John Bawle
Dot
Kitty Curley
Davy
J.J. Houlihan
Bridget Houlihan
Micky
Mary
Gillian Brogan
Laura Hanley
Tom Fagan
Richard Farrell
Lauren Farrell
Diarmuid Walsh
Una Mulvihill
The well of the Saints - 2008
Set in 19th Century rural Ireland with two blind beggars Martin Doul and his wife Mary as central characters,
when their sight is restored by the Saint, the effect on them and their neighbours has radical consequences.
Producer
Martin Doul
Mary Doul
Timmy
Liam Finnegan
David Hanley
Orla O’Brien
Keith Carberry
Molly Byrne
Bridie
Mat Simon
Patch Ruadh
Gillian Brogan
Una Mulvihill
Diarmuid Walsh
Richard Farrell
Dermot Healy
Sean Farrell
Brian Mulvihill
Grainne Gallagher
The Saint
Crowd
The Down Express - 2007
Set in a station masters office in rural Ireland, the plot revolves around a young love-struck couple who are planning to elope on the ‘Down Express.’
This is a play where polar opposites collide – love and reason, regulations and chaos, young and old.
Producer
Michael Crowley
Thady Brady
Mrs. Tobin
Liam Finnegan
Dermot Healy
David Hanley
Orla O’Brien
Donal Oge
Patricia Maud
Peter O’Sullivan
Henry Kearns
Keith Carberry
Deirdre Mulvihill
Brian Mulvihill
Sean Farrell
Jude Ryan
Voice off stage
Laura Hanley
Jack Bannon
Professor Tim - 2006
Classic Irish romantic comedy play written by playwright George Shiels in 1925. It follows the story of a self-styled "Professor" who returns to his hometown in rural Ireland after 20 years abroad, hiding the fact that he has recently inherited a large fortune.
Producer
Mrs. Scallly
John Scally
Peggy Scally
Liam Finnegan
Laura Hanley
John Bawle
Orla O’Brien
Professor Tim
Hugh O’Cahan
James Kilroy
Mrs. Kilroy
Dermot Healy
Brian Mulvihill
Francis Killian
Fiona Farrell
David Hanley
Marie Fallon
Jack Bannon
Sean Farrell
Joseph Kilroy
Moll Flannagan
Paddy Kinney
Mr. Allison
All The Kings Horses - 2005
A will, family disharmony, political and religious divides are the central themes to this engaging and powerful comedy.
Producer
Kate Houlihan
Julia Finnegan
Mr. Applebloom
Liam Finnegan
Fiona Farrell
Orla O’Brien
Brian Mulvihill
Michael Maloney
William McStay
Father Kelly
Gerry O’Neill
Francis Killian
Brendan Hanley
John Bannon
Dermot Healy
Laura Hanley
Sean Farrell
Dermot Nolan
Mary Mac Millan
Sergeant O’Reilly
Radio Announcer
Dancing at Lughnasa - 2004
A story of five unmarried sisters living in the hearth of Donegal, trapped in their domestic situation.
Their lives are thrown into conflict as first their missionary brother, Jack and then Michael’s wayward, passionate father returns to throw the delicate poised balance of the house off kilter.
Sean Farrell
Kathleen McGann
Orla O’Brien
Fiona Farrell
Producer
Maggie
Kate
Agnes
Laura Hanley
Martha Mc Gann
Dermot Healy
Jack Bannon
Richard Farrell
Chris
Rose
Michael
Fr. Jack
Gerry Evans
Mother Knows Best - 2003
The tale revolves around the McDermot family, Tess, her hen-picked husband Harry and their independent minded daughter Suzanne.
The path of true love rarely runs smoothly, and in this instance roguery, deceit, seduction and gossip blend into a hilarious comedy.
Producer
Nick Cassidy
Suzanne Mc Dermot
Tess Mc Dermot
Sean Farrell
John Bawle
Martina Casey
Kathleen Mc Gann
Harry Mc Dermot
Joe Galligan
Dolly Cassidy
Sadie Jessup
Richard Farrell
John Bannon
Carmel Kelly
Laura Hanley
Adrian Bird
Dinah Dolan
Dulcie Cotter
Dermot Healy
Orla O’Brien
Fiona Farrell
The Maiden Aunt - 2002
Gertie O’Grady retired school teacher and spinster, comes to stay with her niece, Mary Murphy, after a period in hospital. Mary tries to persuade her aunt to make a will and is secretly hoping for a large bequest. The plot unfolds with hilarious consequences.
John Paul Murphy
Jarlath Mc Kenna
Francie Gilhooley
Caroline Quinn
Paula Moore
John Bawle
Dermot Healy
John Bannon
Fiona Farrell
Orla O’Brien
Sean Farrell
Kathleen Mc Gann
Martina Casey
Sean Michael Healy
Producer
Gertie O’Grady
Mary Murphy
Dan Murphy
The Whiteheaded Boy - 2000
The Whiteheaded Boy is a light hearted satire on small town life. It opens with the expected return from Veterinary College in Dublin of Mrs. Geoghan’s favourite son, Denis, her Whiteheaded Boy. A crisis develops when it is discovered that Denis’ studies are not progressing as expected.
Kate Geoghan
Jane Geoghan
Baby Geoghan
Denis Geoghan
Niamh Murray
Deirdre Hopkins
Caoilfhionn Casey
Sylvester Healy
Marie Fallon
Mary Connor
Sean Farrell
Sean Michael Healy
Producer
Mrs. Geoghan
George Geoghan
Peter Geoghan
Kathleen Mc Gann
Jack Flanagan
John Bannon
Sheila Healy
Maureen Nester
Aunt Ellen
Donough Bronson
John Duffy
Delia Duffy
Hannah