The Rabbit's Riot Theatre Company

'One of the Lads' written by Treasa Nealon and performed and edited by Chris Slattery. It was performed at Galway Theatre Festival in 2018 at the The Mick Lally Theatre. Please enjoy this 10 minute snippet! ‘I curse, I spit, I scream, I distract from the stinging in my eyes and I smash a bottle over his head.’ ​Seamie would rather down a litre of paint-stripper then do yoga or talk about his feelings. But then the new Senior Men's coach Kev returns home from Down Under (with a shite tan and a bird from Carlow). Before long Kev is adding mindfulness alongside lunges to the Senior Men’s training sessions and suddenly Seamie’s binge-drinking & fist-fighting methods of communication are put to the test… Exploring the concept of toxic masculinity in rural Ireland, One of the Lads is a humorous and thought-provoking story about escaping the expectations society places on us.

3400 written and performed by Treasa Nealon There are 1,700 souls in Ballyford, Leitrim, and each one is as nosey as the last. Aisling is pretty sure her grandmother can sniff sin off of a dead cat and that she'll be ostracised from Leitrim if it was discovered that she had premarital sex, let alone the 'A' word that must not be named.

Uniform by Hazel Doolan What is it to be a woman? Is it what you wear? Your vocation? Are you not a woman because you don’t wear heels or a skirt? Are you not professional because you like to dress in pink? This thought provoking one woman play written and starring award winning playwright Hazel Doolan explores self-identity, coming of age and loss of agency. Eva's Echo Theatre Company is a Galway based theatre company producing new creative works expressing the modern soul of Ireland, aiming to give a voice to the voiceless and highlight the challenges in Irish culture today through theatre. The company strive to support up and coming artists and won the Galway Fringe Best Emerging Artists award for their first production Match. Support Eva's Echo here >> https://evasecho.com/become-a-friend/

Plus Fours and No Breakfast by Wayne Denniston, a two-hander black comedy set in Newtownforbes, Co Longford. The play is set in a smoking area in a pub in Newtownforbes where we meet Pius and Pajo. Pius is a down on his luck painter/decorator who's recently lost his driving licence due to drink driving. Pajo is an OAP harbouring a secret from his past. The pub doors shut as a Traveller's funeral passes through the village resulting in both men having a life altering afternoon..... The piece is read by Conor Lambert, reading a monologue from Pius. Conor is an actor of notable works including The Tudors, Vikings, Ripper Street, Fair City, as well as big screen work in Intermission. He is also an acclaimed puppeteer and son of Eugene Lambert. Wayne is a playwright living in Leitrim, who began writing for radio with the PPI Award winning comedy The Auld Disgust, a tale of boy racers, cigarettes and rural pub life. Previous stage works include Oul Hornie and, when normality resumes, He'll be directing his one man show, The Arignaramus, a story of a lonely bachelor talking to his dead chicken, Aer Lingus, in Arigna as he awaits a taxi to drop him into Carrick-On-Shannon for his usual Friday night pints, and to perv on the barmaid.

‘After I buried the body, I realised I had dropped my phone in the grave.’ 'After', written by Treasa Nealon & performed by Galway actor and artistic director of NoRopes Theatre Company Mairéad Folan, is about Sara Keller, a young woman with a penchant for murdering people who irritate her. Edited by Sonia Norris. Song source by Bryan Devaney. The performance is free but if you like what we do, you can help us fund this project here >> https://www.therabbitsriottheatrecompany.com/donate Treasa Nealon co-founded The Rabbit’s Riot Theatre Company in 2016. Since their conception they have produced over 20 shows and the first LGBT+ Theatre Festival in the North-West Where We Are Now. They won an award for our contribution to the LGBT+ Theatre at the 2017 Galway Fringe Festival and an award for their Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Leitrim from Creative Frame. She has had several plays produced in Ireland, the UK and US. Her play A Dream of Dying was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2016 by the Fake Escape Theatre Company. Two of her short plays I Confess and Maybe, Baby were chosen in 2014 and in 2016 to be produced as part of Cork Arts Theatre 10x10 event. She was a resident of the Hawks Well Theatre in Sligo as part of their Time at the Well residency where she worked on Fever Fields, a script about the outbreak of cholera in Sligo in the 1800’s. Mairéad Folan is Artistic Director of Galway-based NoRopes Theatre Company which she founded in 2015. She has been a bilingual freelance theatre practitioner since 2005. She has received a MA in Drama and Theatre Studies from National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland and an Acting Diploma from London College of Music. Mairéad has trained with the Garvey School of Speech and Drama, Galway Youth Theatre and Core Theatre College. In 2017 she was the recipient of the Mentoring Award supported by the Arts Council’s Arts and Disability Connect Scheme managed by Arts and Disability Ireland. She was awarded a New Work award supported by the Arts Council’s Arts and Disability Connect Scheme managed by Arts and Disability Ireland and was one of the artists in residence on Druid’s FUEL programme in 2018. Mairéad is a founding member of Galway-based theatre collective, Theatre57 and a board member of An Taibhdhearc. Credits as Actor: Meet Luke (NoRopes Theatre Company/Croke Park -Beyond Limits 19), Meet Luke (NoRopes Theatre Company/Galway -Dublin Tour), Meet Luke – a rehearsed reading (NoRopes Theatre Company/ Notions Festival), Pléasc (Fíbín Teo.), The Vagina Monologues ( NUIG Feminist Soc), Gun Metal Grey – rehearsed reading (Truman Town Theatre), This Means War!, Under Milkwood, Talking to Terrorists (Galway Youth Theatre/ Cúirt International Festival of Literature), Heads (Galway Youth Theatre) and Cocktails (Labyrinth Players/Project ’06). She is currently further developing the Meet Luke script with Little John Nee as dramaturge.

Introducing the next Self-Isolation Tape - If Nidge Lived in Leitrim by Treasa Nealon & performed by Galway based actor and Eva's Echo Theatre Company co-founder Rena Bryson. After Paula’s grandfather is arrested for assaulting a judge, she realizes that the packages delivered to his house at ungodly hours don’t contain parts for his vintage cars, she becomes a reluctant drug dealer. The performance will be free but if you like what we do, you can help us fund this project here >> https://www.therabbitsriottheatrecompany.com/donate Rena Bryson is a Galway based theatre maker. After graduating from Performing Arts at IT Sligo Rena worked as an actor in the West of Ireland in productions including Bob Kelly’s The Big Wall, Dark Daughter Productions & Costume Hire’s Mother Loss, The Rabbit’s Riot Theatre Company’s Welcome to Wonderland and NoRopes Theatre Company’s Flash Theatre. She has worked with The Rabbit’s Riot Theatre Company as an actor, playwright and director over the years. Now based in Galway she is the co-founder of Eva’s Echo Theatre Company and completed a master’s degree in Theatre and Drama at NUI Galway last year. Rena assistant directed and performed in the company’s first production the award winning Match. With the company she played various comedic characters in Dayshift, Louise in Jungle Door her first full length play to be produced and Mia in Vlogger her second. As a playwright and producer Rena enjoys creating multimedia work mainly through the use of projections. She has appeared on screen acting and singing in Human Child featured on Leitrim Matters and as an extra in Hardy Bucks, True Crime and the film Halal Daddy, as well as having performed in many short films. Her most recent stage performance was in Tea Cosy Theatre’s production of The Vagina Monologues.

Before by Treasa Nealon and starring GemmaMarie Boyle. Mary is used to living in self-imposed self-isolation and remembers back to a time when her life was filled with more then just empty days and loud silences. GemmaMarie Boyle is a Donegal based actor who will be graduating with a BA (Hons.) from IT Sligo's Performing Arts programme this Autumn. She has worked on productions such as A Streetcar Named Desire, Top Girls, Odd Couple and Ubu Rex. She has also worked with The Rabbits Riot Theatre Company previously in their production #BraveNewWorld2019. If you like the work we do you can send a donation here >> https://www.therabbitsriottheatrecompany.com/donate

Introducing our next Self-Isolation Tape! #Viral by Treasa Nealon and starring Rebecca Duggan. Dara livestreams an apology to her ex-best friend after a video she took of them goes accidentally viral and uphends both their lives. If you like the work we do you can send a donation here >> https://www.therabbitsriottheatrecompany.com/donate Rebecca Duggan is a 23 year old performing arts student in IT Sligo (soon to be graduate!) She comes from the town of Westport just off the coast of Mayo. She has performed from the age of 8 and since then she has enjoyed being in the spotlight! The world of theatre and performance is something that means a lot to her for many reasons. She loves performing, she loves watching others perform, she loves being a part of a show whether that means creating it , performing in it or just experiencing it as an audience member.

Introducing our next Self-Isolation Tape! God Damn Wow by Treasa Nealon and starring Claire Ahearne. What better way to practise your proposal speech to your girlfriend then to the bathroom mirror? If you like the work we do you can send a donation here >> https://www.therabbitsriottheatrecompan… Claire is a Galwegian and have been acting locally with wonderful groups like The Theatre Room Galway, Project Spatula, Calamity Theatre, and The Little Cinema Galway to name a few. She is a graduate of Drama Theatre and Performance in NUIG and recently finished an internship with The Galway Community Circus! Always working on her craft, she was very excited to make a video for Rabbits Riot Theatre Company and hopes you enjoy it, as she thinks we all need a bit of romance right now