Tongues
The Nuremberg Trials were the proof of concept for the kind of simultaneous interpretation used at the EU and UN today. This play is about the language staff at Nuremberg.
Developed on attachment at the NT Studio.
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A Taiwanese Irish man hasn’t talked to his mother in years. Then she has a stroke.
A monologue for two people.
Everything That Never Happens
A mother and daughter over fifty five years. The daughter likes numbers, so she knows that fifty five can be arranged into all kinds of patterns. It’s five elevens, eleven fives, or ten plus nine plus eight plus you get it. This last one is the shape of the play - we begin in 1990 with a ten year old imagining being nineteen, and we go from there. Is it a failure of her imagination that her mother is always there, or is that just Dublin housing?
Commissioned by Fishamble: The New Play Company.
Never / Once // Always / Again
A play about content moderation and fucked up families. Is queer a slur? Is putting a snake in your son’s bed child abuse? Does this photo of an armadillo count as porn if I caption it zaddy? These are real questions by the way, and if you don’t answer you’re fired. Too slow, you’re fired anyway.
Only If Asked
Medical student has nervous breakdown, then meets pathological liar. This is phrased like the meet cute from a 2007 romcom, but arguably you have yet to meet someone if everything they’ve told you about themselves is false. This is a bad thing to realise after you have moved in together.
HARM
I live in Rialto. I’m conducting interviews about the local anti-drugs movement in the 80s/90s. If you saw my play about adoption, Absent The Wrong, then the way the first act was staged gives you a good sense of what this piece’s eventual tone/logic will be like.