Shooting Gallery

Shooting Gallery

Written by Des Bishop & Arthur Riordan (World premiere)

Directed by Jimmy Fay

Cast: Arthur Riordan, Tadhg Murphy, Susan Fitzgerald, Simone Kirby, Mal Whyte

Susan Fitzgerald was nominated as Best Supporting Actress at the 2006 Irish Theatre Awards.

Designed by Ferdia Murphy Lighting Design by Sinead McKenna Sound Design by Vincent Doherty & Ivan Birthistle

What the press said…

“Delightfully funny…Susan Fitzgerald is especially amusing as the loyalist neighbour Mrs Synott.” – Fintan O’Toole, Irish Times

“Republican history has always been inflected with a touch of the ridiculous, but never more so than in this production.” – In Dublin

“A mocking cocktail aimed at intoxicating every nationalist sensibility with the howling drunkenness of outrage.” – Emer O’Kelly, Sunday Independent

Blurb

It’s 1916, and if Irish eyes are smiling, it’s probably because they’ve got access to secret military stocks of intravenous morphine. A Highly irreverent perspective on the events of the Easter Rising, as witnesses by two opium-addicted dreamers in Rathmines. You say you want revolution? We’d love to hear the plan…