SPRINGBOARD: Two One Act Plays
St. Patrick’s Gateway, March 25th, 27th and 28th 2026
2025 saw our sold out and exceptionally well received production of Big Maggie in April launching our 90th birthday year.
We celebrated in November with a very enjoyable party Downes’s to end 2025. Denise Quinn and Luke Corcoran (from the Big Maggie cast) collaborated in a new play in December in Downes’s written and directed by Luke.
We also offer congratulations to cast members Steven Walsh who won the Ted and Mary O’Regan Bursary to develop his work; also to Kassie O’Mahony, who has won a place on University of Galway’s M.A Drama and Theatre Studies programme when she completes her primary degree in SETU.
To round off our successful production year we are thrilled to present a short season of 2 one Act plays in St Patrick’s Gateway in late March; Wednesday 25th, Friday 27th and Saturday 28th.
NB No performance on Thursday 26th:
We have a new play written and directed by our own Catherine Bradley, ‘Views From A Lamp Post’ and a new director Martina Kavanagh with Liz O’Hanlon’s ‘Smile Handsome’
Catherine has cast Denise Quinn and Paul Barry.
‘Views from a Lamp Post’
“We’ve solved many a conundrum sittin’ on this bench”
Since they met in secondary school, Mary has been Kevin’s best friend and confidante for his entire life. As we eavesdrop on a particular moment in time, this witty and touching snapshot, reveals an unconventional relationship that highlights themes of eternal friendship and how love can prevail.
‘Smile Handsome’, by Baileborough playwright, Liz O’Hanlon
The play tells the story of three women brought together in the confines of a women’s prison. Though each has her own distinctive background and unique story to tell, all three are bound together through common threads of motherhood, grief and loss. Experience moments of menace, heart- warming friendship and the threat of tragedy, which hangs constantly in the air.
Martina has cast Vivienne Coughlan, Lindsey Kirby and Clare O’Sullivan
This play contains strong language
Booking Options: Luca Records, 23. Michael St.- In person. (€10 cash only) /Online on Luca Records website gig booking page: Scan the QR code on the poster (a booking fee applies)/On the door €10 cash only. Limited availability on door.
