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Jammie Dodgers by Ciara Gillan is a workplace comedy set in Berlin about a group of office temps from various countries (Ireland, France, Germany, Australia, the U.S.) who are determined to do as little work as possible, outsmart their manipulative boss, delay adult responsibility and not sleep with each other. They fail on all counts. Jammie Dodgers is a show that explores that time in your early...

Jammie Dodgers by Ciara Gillan is a workplace comedy set in Berlin about a group of office temps from various countries (Ireland, France, Germany, Australia, the U.S.) who are determined to do as little work as possible, outsmart their manipulative boss, delay adult responsibility and not sleep with each other. They fail on all counts. Jammie Dodgers is a show that explores that time in your early...

Written by Eamon Somers, produced and directed by Berni Dwan, with audio production by Declan McGlade,  A Quarter of Broken Biscuits  captures a snapshot of life in Dublin’s Liberties in the 1960s. With the main action emanating from a local grocery shop, the characters grapple with two main issues – the age-old housing crisis, and the nascent realization that homosexuality does indeed exist. The...

All The Way to Mars and Back  by Eddie Naughton Directed by Anna Nugent ALL THE WAY TO MARS AND BACK is about day in the life of a community where the endemic drug problem has become a way of life. It begins with the funeral of a drug addict and ends with yet more deaths. In between, the play points up the sinister elements that has the community in a vice like grip; the unscrupulous drug bar...

Still We Sing  by Martina Collender Directed by Anna Nugent Ghent, 1956, autumn. The play opens to find a small group of actors in rehearsals for Romeo and Juliet. We discover these play-actors are being led Nickolas Locke and they are rehearsing the play in brutal conditions, against all odds. We discover this group of people have been torn from their homes, their lives, the livelihood, the ident...

To The Bone  by David Donavan Directed by Anna Nugent To The Bone is a rural drama exploring the relationship between generations and changing attitudes. Jack is helping his father Bob on the family farm but longs for something more. He faces a crossroad as decisions need to be made and friendships are tested in his journey of self-discovery. Laurence Lowry as Bob Paul Nugent as Jack Aoife Commons...

Class of 2025  by Diandra Xavier Directed by Anna Nugent Anisa Kapoor is on the brink of adulthood, juggling school pressure, family expectations, and the endless chatter of her virtual assistant. When she’s asked to give a graduation speech, she must choose between perfection and honesty. Vivian Birungi as Anisa Brigid Leahy as Alexa Brian Robinson as Barista Rebecca Rose Flynn as Eimear Shr...

Tenterhooks  by John Morton Directed by Sarah Baxter Tenterhooks is a darkly comic drama about two strangers, adrift in their lives who keep meeting in various suicide black spots over the course of a summer. Brid is a self-styled damsel in distress looking for a knight in shining armour to rescue her. She lives alone in a big house in the country and is searching for someone to take an inter...

Home by Carol RooneyDirected by Anna Nugent ‘Home’ is a monologue play following three generations of a Dublin family during the first half of 2020. Eileen a Clontarf native is enjoying every moment of retirement and all the social activity she can, her niece Niamh is heading into her 50’s and feels overwhelmed with her familial and work commitments and is concerned with her son Adam’s disinterest...

Young men, think twice before whipping out your spray paints after dark, hoping to have some fun at the expense of the defenseless dead in that old local cemetery near you. Dead Platoon  a new radio drama, written and produced by Berni Dwan, directed by Bairbre Ní Chaoimh, with sound tech by Declan McGlade, will convince you that this anti-social behaviour is not a good idea, so go kick a foo...

Written and produced by Berni Dwan and directed by Cian O’Náraigh, The Moth Hour is a dramatic case of female personality, resilience, strength of character and adaptability kicking in when the safety of daylight is replaced by something darker than dark. All told by one character at three key stages of her life – before, during and after the horror, The Moth Hour will make you think twice about v...

Growing Up in the Big Smoke, Unrhymed and Acapella  is a memoir of growing up in Dublin as a child of the nineteen-sixties, a teenager of the nineteen-seventies, and a young woman of the nineteen-eighties, a memoir that captures the prevailing social and cultural norms of those decades. You remember – First Confession, First Holy Communion, Confirmation, National School, scary nuns, discos, the Le...

Jammie Dodgers by Ciara Gillan is a workplace comedy set in Berlin about a group of office temps from various countries (Ireland, France, Germany, Australia, the U.S.) who are determined to do as little work as possible, outsmart their manipulative boss, delay adult responsibility and not sleep with each other. They fail on all counts. Jammie Dodgers is a show that explores that time in your early...

Jammie Dodgers by Ciara Gillan is a workplace comedy set in Berlin about a group of office temps from various countries (Ireland, France, Germany, Australia, the U.S.) who are determined to do as little work as possible, outsmart their manipulative boss, delay adult responsibility and not sleep with each other. They fail on all counts. Jammie Dodgers is a show that explores that time in your early...

Don’t B 2 Keen Mr. Matchmaker by Conrad JB Ethan, a young Dublin gay man, disillusioned with his prospects of ever owning a house in the capital, sets off to deep rural Ireland in search of a Sugar Daddy. Written as a reaction to John B Keane’s ‘The Matchmaker’, Don’t B 2 Keen Mister Matchmaker explores the transactional feeling of modern day Grindr culture and how that can interact with rural iso...

Konstantin by Ultan Pringle [powerpress] Konstantin follows the entwined lives of lifelong partners Nina and Allie. Beginning when they’re 18 and setting out to explore the world and finishing when they’re in their late 80s and preparing to leave it, Konstantin is a story of two lives lived and loved side by side. The play jumps through the span of 60 years to explore the relationship and romantic...

A new audio drama by Colette Cullen. Two very different couples meet in the waiting room of a fertility clinic – Adam and Sera for their fifth IVF cycle, Jess and Jessica for their first. As they pass the time chit chatting there are some surprising revelations. Cast: Emma Dargan-Reid as Jessica Siobhan Callaghan as Jess Lesley Conroy as Sera Jed Murray as Adam Directed by Colette Cullen Made with...

‘Togetherness’ tells the story of the narcissistic Dervla who on her agony aunt style podcast ‘Wagon Wheel’ with her long suffering co-host Fidelma recounts the onesided story of a recent breakup with girlfriend Megan while a confused call in listener tries to make sense of the meandering tale. Written and Directed by Jonathan Hughes Dervla – Sorcha Curley Fidelma – Andrea Kelly Megan – Juliette C...

Awakenings  is a five-act play about tolerance, making the effort to understand other points of views when recognised in context, and strengthening rather than weakening ties when differences have been acknowledged. In  Awakenings , the conflicting views around religion, popular culture, and traditional culture are played out in a care home between three generations. While there are obvi...

Mairead (50s) is thinking of applying for promotion whenever her manager Helen retires. She asks for Helen’s opinion on the matter, confiding in her boss that she’s autistic. Mairead is taken aback when Helen calls her ‘brave’ and ponders why disclosing her neurology should be seen that way. Through Mairead’s story, our author Maura Campbell explores “why it might be seen as ‘brave’ to apply a wor...

Near FM presents new audio drama ‘Heartburn’, written by Caitlin Magnall-Kearns; directed by Anna Nugent. Heartburn is a modern take on the rom-com that looks at fatness and friendship. Set over one night in Belfast it follows Chris, a writer, and Lou, a “dinner-lady man” by day and pint puller at night. The two met at university and quickly became friends with benefits. Chris moved ba...

Want your Shakespeare battered or filleted? Listen to  A Fishy Tail   of Sound and Fury , a new radio drama written and produced by Berni Dwan, and directed by Brendan Laird. What’s on the menu? Food snobbery and copy culture served up with lashings of lovely Shakespeare, infused with socialist ideology, and a palette cleanser, no less, of poetic justice. A Fishy Tail of Sound and Fury W...

New audio drama High Spirits by Méabh de Brún – 6pm June 8th 2023 Three siblings and one in-law gather after a patriarch’s burial to honour a very unusual letter of wishes. Their late father wants to be contacted in the afterlife, and so begins a dark comedy full of suspect séances, family secrets and the undeniable bond of siblinghood. Directed by Anna Nugent Caoimhe Mulcahy as Rachael Méabh de B...

New audio drama broadcasting at 6pm on Thursday the 1st June 2023. The Whale and the Swan by Fiona Browne Marie is pregnant at a young age and finds herself in the care of the nuns. Her daily reality is stark and brutal. In order to survive she creates her own world among the hanging sheets of the laundry, and regularly escapes into ‘Suchatime’ Directed by Anna Nugent Cast: Noreen – Fiona Browne S...

A young woman decides to end her life on high point by jumping off a building before her happiness can turn sour. However just as she is about to jump, she is stopped by a man calling himself the Angel of Death, and it seems he rather she stay alive. Directed by Anna Nugent Eva – Rachel Walshe Jamie – Paul Nugent Joy – Jessie Doyle Mona – Jade Jordan Made with the support of the Broadcasting Autho...