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Our Productions
Aisling Ghear have been producing shows since 1996. Below you will find a list of our productions.
'The Poor Mouth'
This is a first for Aisling Ghéar Theatre Company – an adaptation from a novel to a script for the stage. And boy are we excited!! More Info >>
'Stones in his Pockets'
Synopsis: This is the story of what happens in a small, rural town in County Kerry, when an American film crew arrives to make a film. More Info >>
Gruagairí
Synopsis: Gruagairí is set in a hairdressing salon and is the story of two best friends, Fiona and Josie, who go into business together. When a spending spree is discovered and some other awkward secrets come to light the real state of the business becomes clear and it's time to make some big choices. Added to the line-up is a lusty landlord who has the hots for Fiona's Mum and a boyfriend who is so completely besotted with hurling, he has given up everything, including his girlfriend Josie, to live his dream of making the Antrim Senior Team!! "All is not lost - a surprise disclosure in the landlords plush apartment might provide the means for Fiona's Mum to help out the business but the real victory will be in the age old 'points advantage' between lust, love and money. More Info >>
An Triail
Synopsis : Ní Ghráda's groundbreaking play explores the hypocracies inherent in Catholic sixties Ireland. Her heroine Máire becomes pregnant by a married man and then attempts to do the impossible and keep her baby. More Info >>
Small City
Synopsis: A romantic comedy about a young woman working in a solicitor's office who dreams of a more exciting life. More Info >>
Bailegangaire
Synopsis: A senile and bedridden old woman and her two daughters gather to tell stories, swap grudges, reveal secrets and open old wounds - as only families can. More Info >>
Anraith Neantóige
Synopsis: This is the author's second play in Irish. Set in a future where warfare has become endemic and everyday, two women survive on the edges of the fight zone although both are in denial of the realities of their existence. More Info >>
Lá Fhéile Mhíchíl
Synopsis: Set in a convent during the Civil War that followed the War of Independence, Ó Tuairisc's tense drama centers on how this war divided brother from brother and indeed Sister from Sister. More Info >>
Aladdin
Synopsis: 'A mushroom! Well really! If they're going to start growing in the dining room' - a dark brooding comedy from the Rumanian Master, full of mystery and lurking secrets. More Info >>
Endgame
Synopsis: Hamm & Clov are trapped in a co-dependant existence in a post apocalyptic world, Nag and Nell (Hamm's parents) are legless and live in 2 trashcans. All 3 are dependent on Clov to provide for them. He is constantly threatening to leave but somehow we know he never will More Info >>
Mandragola
Synopsis: Callimaco, a handsome young devil has his heart set on a night of passion with Lucrezia, the wife of a stupid wealthy and impotent Florentine merchant - Nicia. Callimaco employs Liqurio, the manipulative move-puller, who sets about his task with cunning single-mindedness, calling on the services of the beautiful but frustrated wife's mother, priest and husband in order to achieve the adulterous aim. More Info >>
Jack agus Gas Pónaire
Synopsis: The classic fairy tale of a young boy, who plants magical beans, outwits a giant ogre, wins the golden harp and the golden eggs and marries a Princess!! More Info >>
Translations
Synopsis: The British Army have just arrived in a Gaeltacht area with the purpose of mapping the area. The play focuses on the erosion of Irish Culture along with the eradication of the Irish Language and Irish place names by the British administration of the time. The developing romance between a local girl and a British Solider proves that love only knows one language. More Info >>
Úr Te Bruite
Synopsis: Set in post ceasefire Belfast this is a Macchievelian piece about political shenanigans and duplicity in the world of media and politics. More Info >>
Pádraig i dTír na nÍontaís
Synopsis: The adventures of St Patrick in an Irish wonderland More Info >>
Damhsa ag Lúghnasa by Brian Friel
Synopsis: Set in Donegal in 1936, during Ireland's change from an agrarian to a more industrial economy, Brian Friel's haunting ensemble drama of five sisters and their priest brother reveals the economic, social, and religious pressures in the rural community of Ballybeg on the eve of the harvest festival of Lughnasa More Info >>
Jingle Bang Jangle
Synopsis: A bawdy comedy musical in which an unfortunate Blacksmith is being cuckolded by his much smarter neighbour - the Miller. More Info >>
Dialann Ocrais/Diary of a Hunger Strike
Synopsis: 25 years later Sheridan's dramatic retelling of of the 1981 hunger strike is as powerful and shocking as ever. Sheridan's play brings the audience through the events that shaped the course of the next twenty years of Irish history. More Info >>
Shirley Valentine
Synopsis: A monologue by a housewife before and after a transforming holiday in Greece. Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chips 'n' egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in her current life with what she used to be like and feels she's stagnated and in a rut. But when her best friend wins an all-expenses-paid vacation to Greece for two, she leaves the drudgery of cooking dinner for her husband, packs her bags and heads for the sun. The note on the kitchen table reads "Gone to Greece back in two weeks." Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light. More Info >>
Shadow of a Gunman
Synopsis: When Minnie Powell, a resident of a Dublin tenement speaks to Donal Davoren, who is visiting his friend Seumas Shields, she assumes that this poet-visitor is an IRA gunman, in hiding. It is 1920, and the Irish battle for independence has begun. Minnie, Seumas, and the other residents of the tenement all side with the rebels, and while Donal never says that he is with the IRA, neither does he work very hard to convince the residents otherwise.Seamas, on the other hand, is actively involved with the rebels, using his work as a peddler of second-hand goods to make connections and carry information. Gunfire is constant at night, bombs go off, innocent citizens are killed, and the police raid neighborhood houses. During a disturbance that night, Minnie takes a bag of bombs, left under the bed by one of Seamus's friends, into her own room to protect Donal, to whom she is attracted, only to face the police in a raid. More Info >>
Cathal Buí
Synopsis: A new play based on the historical 17th Century poet, Cathal Buí - a rakish character, this play is set in an amateur drama club whose leading actor is 'devoted to the grape' and too fond of losing money on the horses and his Director who is despairing of ever having a complete rehearsal with a full cast before the Opening Night.. in two days time!! More Info >>
In Ainm an Rí
Synopsis: A young bored housewife whose only escape from the dullness of life on her sprawling, soulless West Belfast housing estate is to fantasise about the King and a fortnight of bliss in Memphis Tennessee. If only her husband could win the great Elvis Impersonation Contest!! More Info >>
Mise, Subhó agus Maccó
Synopsis: This play explores the lives of three eccentric characters who live on the fringes of society. The play is a critique of the divisions within the Celtic Tiger economy, which is seen as having created massive social and economic inequalities in Ireland. More Info >>
Happy Days
Synopsis: Winne, the main character is buried up to her waist in a mound of earth yet, amazingly maintains a cheery disposition which is coupled with an unnerving ability to put her time in busily. However Winnie has her husband Willie to contend with. More Info >>
Amédée
Synopsis: 'A mushroom! Well really! If they're going to start growing in the dining room' - a dark brooding comedy from the Rumanian Master, full of mystery and lurking secrets.More Info >>
O Rajerum
Synopsis: A black comedy - an actor sells his soul to the Devil to get into the business More Info >>
Faith Healer
Synopsis: The Story of Frank Hardy - the Faith Healer of the title, and his wife Grace and their travels around Britain in a ramshackle caravan bringing to the sick and the lame the prospect of a miracle cure. More Info >>
Accidental death of an Anarchist
Synopsis: Inspired by the death of an anarchist held in Police custody, this play opens with a character called 'Maniac' being brought into a Police Station. What follows is an expertly woven piece that's as much an outrageous comedy as it is a thought provoking piece about the big question-what is the true story. Fo's satiric wit explores police brutality as well as relationships among the police, the media and the political establishment. More Info >>
