📻From 4.30 Matt Cooper 🟡Rail review recommends new routes and faster services Eamon Ryan 🔵New law would protect access to cash Jack Chambers TD 🟡Latest from #Olympics2024 🔵Riots in Southport as far-right crash vigil Nick Ferrari 🟡Culture Club Lynne Parker Rough Magic

🎭Improbably, we staged the Irish premiere of 1675's The Country Wife in 1986, in Project for DTF🎭 youtu.be/NgnxPpBAadw Lascivious and laugh-out-loud funny, with an unforgettable cameo by Enda Oates, and a beautiful cut-out programme designed by Charlie O’Neill. #rm40 #tbt

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Freefalling at DTF is now on sale! 9 – 12 October 📍Draíocht Blanchardstown dublintheatrefestival.ie/event/freefall… Funded by the Arts Council of Ireland, co-produced by Rough Magic and Lime Tree | Belltable in association with Fidget Feet Aerial Dance #DTF2024

✨We co-produced The Tempest with Kilkenny Arts Festival in 2022, with an iconic performance by Eleanor Methven as Prospero. Magic indeed✨ youtu.be/zi_L1d4Dn7o Did you see this production? Tell us about it in the comments! #rm40 #irishtheatre #kilkennyartsfestival

⭐Announcing another Rough Ideas: Open Call! We’re looking for playwrights, dramatists, scribblers, wordsmiths, rough magicians⭐ Send us in your scripts by 4th October – info here: roughmagic.ie/compass/rough-… #rm40 #irishnewwriting #irishtheatre #opencall #roughideas

🚂Look who’s ended up in the train driver’s seat! Designer Zia Bergin-Holly is on her way to Kilkenny with Rough Magic for the work in progress showing of Peter Hanly’s What Are You Afraid Of? – full steam ahead🚂 kilkennyarts.ie/programme/pete… #kilkennyartsfestival #peterhanly

Peter Hanly: What Are You Afraid Of? 🗓 14 August 🕟 5.30pm 🎟 €15 / €12 This in-development showing of work in progress will be followed by a conversation with the writer/performer, director, and members of the creative team. KilkennyArtsFestival Rough Magic Visit Kilkenny

🔎It’s the Improbability Archive, and we’re visiting 1990 today, with Declan Hughes’ first play, I Can’t Get Started. Declan Hughes won the Stewart Parker Trust Award for this “hard-boiled noir fantasy”. 🔎 youtu.be/C7MM4qCRRp0 #rm40 #tbt #irishtheatre

Rough Magic salutes the life of Ronan Smith, the loveliest of men and a major figure in Irish theatre. He was much loved and is greatly missed.

Rough Magic mourns and pays tribute to the great Nell McCafferty, who tilted the world on its axis. We had the privilege of knowing her during our production of The Train in @projectartscentre and @abbeytheatredublin. Rest in peace Nell, we all owe you. #nellmccafferty #IWLM

🎭The Improbability Archive visits 2019: the world premiere of Marina Carr’s Hecuba, later filmed during the 2020 pandemic 🎬 youtu.be/XVo3y1h2284 Did you see Hecuba, either on stage or screen? Tell us about it in the comments! #rm40 #tbt #improbabilityarchive #marinacarr

Great article about Peter Hanly's work in progress showing of What Are You Afraid Of? by Deirdre Falvey in The Irish Times. We can’t wait to bring this to full production next year with Kilkenny Arts Festival 🌟 irishtimes.com/culture/stage/…? #kilkennyartsfestival #roughmagictheatre

🌟 Week 24, and 1996 with Rough Magic’s production of Stewart Parker’s Pentecost, set in Belfast in 1974 during the Ulster Worker’s Council strike, it won Best Production in DTF before touring 🌟 youtu.be/_4BuizJedqk #rm40 #irishtheatre #stewartparker #irishplaywright #tbt

“THIS is how it feels to be living. What the hell have I been doing up to now?” Get your tickets now for Freefalling! Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick, 26-27 September Draíocht Blanchardstown, Dublin Theatre Festival, 9-12 October draiocht.ie/whats-on/freef…

As we prepare for lift-off, meet the team behind Freefalling! ⭐First up is our brilliant set designer, Emma Fisher-Owen⭐ Get your tickets for Freefalling now! 📅 26–27 Sept; 9–12 Oct 📍 Lime Tree Theatre Limerick; Draíocht, Blanchardstown 🎟️ €18-€22

🔥 Another week of the Improbability Archive, another production of Declan Hughes’ Digging for Fire🔥 Hailed by critics as “searingly relevant”, the play was as much a hit in 2013 as it was when it was first performed in 1991. youtu.be/56YkU5uSg28 #rm40 #irishtheatre ¢tbt

📢 Rough Magic is delighted to partner with Draíocht to offer 40 FOR 40. In celebration of our 40th Birthday we, in partnership with Draiocht, will give 40 pairs of free tickets to young audiences in the Dublin 15 area for FREEFALLING! 🌟 draiocht.ie/take-part/proj…

🎇 Next up our fabulous lighting designer, Zia! Zia is an award-winning designer of lighting and sets for theatre, dance, opera and live music events. 🎇 📅 26–27 Sept; 9–12 Oct 📍 Lime Tree Theatre Limerick; Draíocht, Blanchardstown 🎟️ €18-€22 🔎 linktr.ee/roughmagic

Ever wondered how aerialists stay suspended? Yes, us too! ⚖️Meet our wonderful aerial counterweight, José Portillo ⚖️ Have you got your tickets for Freefalling yet? 📅 26–27 Sept; 9–12 Oct 📍 Lime Tree Theatre; Draíocht, Blanchardstown 🎟️ €18-€22 🔎 linktr.ee/roughmagic