Write Here Write Now

Draíocht worked in partnership with Fishamble: The New Play Company, to find new talent and encourage Fingal writers to produce new plays for the arts centre.

This project saw the successful participants have access to workshop sessions to develop their own work and the opportunity to meet with established playwrights to learn from their experiences as they carved out their own careers. The project also included attendance at a number of professional productions at Draíocht, starting with Little Gem (Civic Theatre/Guna Nua) in March 2010.

With almost 40 participants on the long-list, the final 6 participants on shortlist had a rehearsed reading of their new play, by professional actors directed by a professional director in Draíocht in Autumn 2010.


Actors who performed rehearsed readings:
Aoibhinn McGinnety, Mark Lambert, Eamonn Hunt, Barry Ward, Marion O’Dwyer, Phelim Drew

Writers & their works:
Emily Gore Grimes / Respectable Expectations
Emily Aoibheann / You’re Our Narcissus
Marianne Hartigan / Helpline
Helen Langford / Adam and the Gurglewink
Rob Buchanan / Beds
Joe Smith / Crossword