Sam Dowling

Shakespeare's HAMLET Prince of Denmark in a SMALL-CAST VERSION suited to seven or more actors

...powerful blend of amused insight, warmth and gripping drama. Antonia Denford, CITY LIMITS...inherently dramatic, (his) understanding, not only of the Anglo-Irish conflict, but also of the human dimmension to the conflict makes this play transcend rhetoric to become a compelling piece of theatre. Samantha Beere, TIME OUT.

Bubble bubble joy and trouble ! Shakespeare, Coward and the mad English out in the mid-day sun. Private Lives swap public faces; the famous duck in and of work. The fair Ophelia...Vivien Leigh...Juliet. Is this Olivier I see before me ? Could this be Coward, the handbag towards my hand ?

Chekhov's classic, re-set in modern Ireland, in a new version for nine actors

Small-cast [eight actors] version of Shakespeare's classic.

French poets Rimbaud and Verlaine on the rampage in nineteenth century Paris

Small-cast version of Ibsen's classic symbolist drama [suitable for a cast of four or five.]

Ireland's great love story: poet W.B.Yeats and revolutionary Maud Gonne McBride torn between the carnal and the idealistic. This play breathes life into their turbulent passion. "A work of unusual creativity." IRISH TIMES

Two men two women in life-changing encounters on a sacred mountain...fast-moving, constantly shifting symbolism explored with wit and delicacy in this abstract social comedy

Abuse in the Irish Industrial Schools. Brother Joseph and Sister Mary face survivors in a Truth And Reconciliation forum. Is it enough? What kind of forgiveness is possible ?

Moving story of Walter Greaves, Thames boatman, naif artist, devoted pupil of Whistler; his meteoric rise and fall in the greedy London art scene of 1911 " A joy from start to finish !" TIME OUT

Gothic, poetic drama in a trimmed, small-cast version for five actors.

Birth of a nation illuminated through its impact on two towering figures of the Irish pantheon, and their enigmatic partnership. O'Casey clawing his way out of poverty in the slum tenements to fame and relative fortune on the strength of his great trilogy of plays. Markievicz heading in an opposite direction has turned her back on the vast family estates in County Sligo to embrace the cause of Dublin's poor. Comrades in the Gaelic League, Larkin and Connolly's Transport Union, the great 1913 lock-out, and the Citizen Army; they have a serious falling out over co-operation with the nationalist Irish Volunteers approaching the rising of 1916, from which O'Casey earns his spurs as a writer while Markievicz earns a death sentence