Productions
Upcoming Productions
Cleaner
"this sweet little piece of work is, above everything else, a play about the magic of theatre [...] this charming play has serious comment to make both on the place of theatre within our society,
and – when a drama is well-achieved – on the potential wonder of the art form itself."
Irish Theatre Magazine
"...delightfully clever..."
Irish Times
Winner: Best Female Performance, Limerick Unfringed Festival 2010
An alternative adult fairytale about a woman who falls in love with her sweeping brush.
Using a combination of puppetry, dance and domestic cleaning products, Martha relives loves lost, loves dreamed and loves endured….
Directed by Donal Gallagher
Performed by Medb Lambert, one of the new generation of Ireland’s best-known puppeteers - the family behind the Lambert National Puppet Theatre and the International Puppet Festival.
Where: Tiesan Café, Filmbase, Curved St., Temple Bar (upstairs from the Fringe box office)
When: 11th – 18th September 3 & 5 pm daily.
Tickets: €10 / €8 concession
Cleaner is also available for a limited number of private performance in your own home.
Email info@asylumtheatre.com for details.
Past Productions
The Bulman
By Donal Hayes
The sell-out hit of the 2009 Kinsale Arts Week
It is 1860, and the trade routes between Cork and Italy are worked hard by a tall ship called the Bulman. One night, off the French coast, she hits a storm of epic proportions.
Death and redemption battle through the night, but when the dawn comes and the fog lifts things will never be the same...
Red Lola
Red Lola just left grandma’s house and strayed right off the path.
Little Red Riding Hood meets Lolita via Freud & Southpark; Red Lola is a tale of seduction, power, puberty, love, lust and lollipops.
Incorruptible
By Jody O'Neill
A public rehearsed reading at Project Arts Centre on Fri 27th March 2009
Brenda; a twenty-something South Dublin suburbanite receives a Skype call from the Virgin Mary...
Six By Sundown
By Ciaran Ruby
A magical journey through the past, present and future of the Callan Workhouse, re-imagined through the eyes of a child…
What happens to childhood in a place where survival itself is a struggle?
A site-specific performance, presented as part of National Heritage Week.
MEAT
By Neil O'Sullivan
A spine chilling, gothic tale of sex and death (though not necessarily in that order).
Co produced with Granary Theatre Premier – Cork Midsummer Festival, June 2007.
Cleaner
by Medb Lambert & Donal Gallagher
An adult fairytale about a cleaning lady who falls in love with her sweeping brush, told through the medium of dance, puppetry and domestic cleaning products.
Premier - Kilkenny Arts Festival, 2006.
Cork Midsummer Festival, 2008 - kitchen of the Uniterian Church, Princes Street.
"...delightfully clever..." The Irish Times.
If you have a suitable kitchen, Cleaner is now available to tour!
Pondlife Angels
by Enda Walsh
A comedy, a horror story, a murder mystery, a soap opera, a supernatural thriller; - all taking place in the split second between life and death.
Co – produced with Cork Midsummer Festival and European Capital of Culture 2005.
World Premier – Granary Theatre, 2005.
...touched...
by Ursula Rani Sarma
Dec 31st 1999… a typical Dublin street crime is unpacked and traced back, through the lives of the desperate down-country brother and sister who commit it.
Co-produced with Cork Midsummer Festival - National Tour, 2004.
Bedbound
by Enda Walsh
In a filthy bed in a cramped room, a father and daughter battle for head space as the walls close in…
Co-produced with Cork Midsummer Festival - National Tour, 2003.
Parrots Voices
by Andreas Marber
An author has written a play for an actor. The name of the play: A Piece of Shit. The title role: A Piece of Shit, The actor seizes his chance: A Piece of Shit in a piece called A Piece of Shit; that is like Hamlet in Hamlet. Parrots' Lies is a humorous expose of employees in the creative industry, constantly with knives on the backs of others, in a desperate attempt to regain their lost reputations.
Co-produced with Granary Theatre. Irish Premier - Granary, 2002.
The Bald Prima Donna
by Eugene Ionesco
Adapted & Performed by: Donal Gallagher & Gerrie O'Grady
Co-produced with Granary Theatre. Irish Premier - Granary, 1999.
Everyman Palace & national tour, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Cologne, Exit Theatre, San Francisco, 2000/'01.
Wanderings
by Ursula Rani Sarma
Three short plays about love…
Co produced with Granary, in association with Djinn. Premier, 2000.
Bar & Ger
by Geraldine Aron
Co production with Granary 1999.