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Landmark Productions

ROSS O’CARROLL-KELLY
Postcards
from the
           Ledge

                    Broadcast live from
                    Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray
                    Saturday 15 May, 2021
                1   On-Demand 16–23 May, 2021
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Contents
                                                       Landmark Productions                    4

                                                       The Hook, Lyon and Sinker
                                                       Guide to Estate Agent Jargon            6

                                                       Paul Howard                             8

                                                       Ross O’Carroll-Kelly                    10

                                                       Rory Nolan                              11

                                                       The Ledge Writ Lorge                    12

                                                       Jimmy Fay                               14

                                                       Grace Smart                             15

  POST-SHOW TALK                                       Credits
                                                       Paul Keogan
                                                                                               16

                                                                                               18
with Paul Howard and Rory Nolan
                                                       Denis Clohessy                          19
        in conversation with                           Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: The Stage Years   20
Irish Times columnist Róisín Ingle                     Thanks                                  22
   As part of Live Broadcast and available on-demand   Join The Conversation                   24

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Landmark Productions Producer                                                                               Landmark Productions

                                                                                                 ROSS O’CARROLL-KELLY
                                                                                                 Postcards
Landmark Productions is one of Ireland’s
leading theatre producers. It produces
wide-ranging work in Ireland, and shares
that work with international audiences.
                                                  It produces a wide range of ambitious
                                                  work – plays, operas and musicals – in
                                                  theatres ranging from the 66-seat New
                                                  Theatre to the 1,254-seat Olympia. It
                                                  co-produces regularly with a number of
                                                                                                 from the
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Earlier this year it launched Landmark
Live, a new online streaming platform
to enable the company to bring the
                                                  partners, including, most significantly,
                                                  Galway International Arts Festival and Irish
                                                  National Opera. Its 18 world premieres
                                                                                                              by   Paul Howard
thrill of live theatre to audiences around        include new plays by major Irish writers
                                                                                                              Director
the world. Postcards from the Ledge is            such as Enda Walsh and Mark O’Rowe,
the third production to be streamed to            featuring a roll-call of Ireland’s finest                   Jimmy Fay
date. In June, Landmark will present the          actors, directors and designers.
world premiere of a new play by Deirdre                                                                       Set and Costume Designer
Kinahan, The Saviour, broadcast live from         Numerous awards include the Judges’                         Grace Smart
the Everyman Theatre. Louise Lowe will            Special Award at The Irish Times Irish
direct Marie Mullen and Brian Gleeson in          Theatre Awards, in recognition of                           Lighting Designer
this blistering new play, presented as part       ‘sustained excellence in programming and
of Cork Midsummer Festival 2021.                  for developing imaginative partnerships                     Paul Keogan
                                                  to bring quality theatre to the Irish and
Led by Anne Clarke since the company’s            international stage’; and a Special Tribute                 Sound Designer
foundation in 2003, Landmark’s                    Award for Anne Clarke, for her work as                      Denis Clohessy
productions have received multiple                ‘a producer of world-class theatre in the
awards and have been seen in leading              independent sector in Ireland’.
theatres in London, New York and beyond.          www.landmarkproductions.ie                                  Broadcast live from
                                                                                                              Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray
                                                                                                              Saturday 15 May, 2021
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The Hook, Lyon and Sinker                                                               Original character, retains much
                                                                                        of its: We couldn’t get all of the
                                                                                                                                 South Killiney:
                                                                                                                                 Definitely Ballybrack.

Guide to Estate Agent Jargon                                                            blood out of the living room carpet.
                                                                                                                                 Stunning: Okayish.
                                                                                        Period: Old.
                                                                                                                                 Subject to planning permission:
Architect-designed interior:              First-time buyer, would ideally               Plumbed for a washing                    There is no planning permission.
A madman laid it out.                     suit: It’s fine if it’s all you can afford.   machine:
                                                                                        There is no washing machine.             Sylvan setting:
Bijou:                                    Foxrock: Probably Cornelscourt.                                                        There are trees nearby.
There isn’t room for two people to                                                      Renewed buyer interest, an area
break wind at the same time.              Fully fitted: The previous owners             of: People are so desperate to get on    Style: Used as a suffix by estate
                                          left the bath, the toilet and the sink.       the property ladder that they’ll even    agents. This also means “not” - as in
Blank canvas: Derelict.                                                                 consider moving here.                    an “Adam-style fireplace” is not an
                                          Galley kitchen: Half a kitchen.                                                        Adam fireplace.
Carpets and curtains included:                                                          Restaurant quarter, close to a
You’ll have to throw them out             Good-neighbourhood-adjacent:                  lively: Opposite a chipper.              Tasteful: It’s a subjective thing.
yourself.                                 It’s in a bad neighbourhood.
                                                                                        Rustic: Ramshackle.                      Terenure:
Cash buyer, would ideally suit:           Glenageary: Probably Sallynoggin.                                                      Templeogue. No question.
No bank would lend you the money                                                        Sea views:
to buy it.                                Highly motivated seller:                      If you stand on the toilet bowl in the   Transport links, conveniently
                                          Can’t wait to be rid of it.                   upstairs bathroom and crane your         close to all: The people on the
Characterful: The toilet is outside.                                                    neck to the left, you can sometimes      upper deck of the bus can see in your
                                          Imaginative use of space:                     see water, provided the tide is in.      window.
Charming: Ugly.                           Even smaller than it appears.
                                                                                        Secluded:                                Up-and-coming:
Colourful history, a house with a:        Investor, represents an ideal                 No one will hear you scream.             Many of the local criminals are
Drugs were sold from here.                opportunity for an:                                                                    considered Ones to Watch in the
                                          No one who buys it would ever                 Self contained:                          future.
Commutable distance from                  dream of living in it.                        Includes four walls and a ceiling.
Dublin: It’s in the Midlands.                                                                                                    Vibrant: Neighbours from hell.
                                          Low-maintenance garden:                       Shabby-chic: It was last decorated
Compact: You’ll have to sit in the        A paved over garden, possibly                 when the Beatles were all still mates.
next room to watch TV.                    concealing a dead body.
                                                                                        Situated close to all the
Cosy: You’ll have to sit outside to       Mock-Tudor: Not Tudor.                        conveniences of modern living:
watch TV.                                                                               Opposite a convenience store that
                                          Open-plan: It’s one room.                     sells drink.
DIY enthusiast, scope for                                                               Smart: Empty.
improvement, especially for               On-street parking:
the: Structurally unsound. Requires       There is no parking.                          South-facing rear-garden:
plumbing and rewiring.                                                                  You’d better enjoy the sight of your
                                          Opportunity: Headache.                        neighbours semi-naked.

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Paul Howard Author
                 Paul Howard is a multi-award-winning           In 2012, he wrote the book and lyrics           among Irish athletes and an interview
                 journalist, author, playwright and             for Anglo: The Musical, a puppet-based,         with the disgraced former sprinter, Ben
                 comedy writer. He has been described           comedy musical about the collapse               Johnson. He was also shortlisted for the
                 by The Irish Times as ‘Ireland’s pre-          of Ireland’s banks. In 2018, his second         award in 2002, 2003, and 2004.
                 eminent satirist’ and by the Irish             musical comedy, Copperface Jacks:               In October 2016, his biography of Tara
                 Independent as ‘one of the world’s             The Musical was the sell-out hit of the         Browne, the Irish-born Guinness heir
                 funniest writers’. He is best known as the     summer. His satirical football memoir,          immortalised in The Beatles’ song ‘A Day
                 creator of Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, a fictional   Triggs – The Autobiography of Roy Keane’s       in the Life’, was published by Picador.
                 rugby jock whose exploits have been            Dog, was a number one bestseller in             It won the Best Non-Fiction award at
                 the subject of twenty novels, which            2012 and was shortlisted for an Irish           the 2016 Irish Book Awards and has
                 have collectively sold more than 1.5           Book Award.                                     been optioned for a movie by a major
                 million copies in Ireland alone.                                                               production studio.
                                                                He has written comedy for radio and
                 He is also the author of three previous        television and was one of the main
                 Ross O’Carroll-Kelly plays, The Last           sketch writers on the twice IFTA-
                 Days of the Celtic Tiger in 2007, Between      nominated satirical TV show Irish
                 Foxrock and a Hard Place in 2010 and           Pictorial Weekly, in which he appeared
                 Breaking Dad in 2014, all of which             as David Drumm and Peter Darragh
                 enjoyed long sell-out runs and revivals        Quinn. He has also written sketches for
                 in Dublin, Cork and Limerick.                  The Mario Rosenstock Show. In 2014,
                                                                he was commissioned by US network E!
                 He is a four-time Irish Book Award             to write a pilot for a sitcom he devised
                 winner, collecting the Best Popular            called The Cliterati.
                 Fiction prize for Should Have Got Off at
                 Sydney Parade in 2007, The Oh My God           Before he embarked on a career as a
                 Delusion in 2010, and Downturn Abbey           comedy writer, he was one of Ireland’s
                 in 2013.                                       most respected sports journalists,
                                                                working mostly for The Sunday Tribune,
                 In 2013, he was named Columnist of the         covering World Cups, Olympic Games
                 Year for his weekly satirical column in        and numerous other major sporting
                 The Irish Times.                               events. He was named Irish Sports
                                                                Journalist of the Year in 1998 for an
                                                                investigation into eating disorders

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Ross O’Carroll-Kelly                                             Rory Nolan
                   Ross O’Carroll-Kelly is the great Nearly                                                            A Whistle in the Dark and Famine as part of
                   Man of Irish rugby – and he doesn’t mean                                                            DruidMurphy, and The Colleen Bawn for the
                   that in a big-headed way.                                                                           company.

                   After leading Castlerock College to victory                                                         Rory graduated from the Gaiety School of
                   in the Leinster Schools Senior Cup final                                                            Acting in 2003, making his post-graduate
                   of 1999, great things were predicted for                                                            debut in The Drunkard, a new adaptation
                   the man generally regarded as the most                                                              by Tom Murphy (B*spoke Theatre Company
                   handsome out-half of his generation.                                                                and GIAF). Since then Rory has appeared in
                   However, he failed to deliver on his                                                                Chekhov’s First Play (Dead Centre); Northern
                   promise for a number of reasons, none of                                                            Star, The Importance of Being Earnest
                   which he wants to get into now – mainly                                                             opposite Stockard Channing, The Critic, Is
                   because he wouldn’t give Warren Gatland                                                             This About Sex, Don Carlos, Attempts on Her
                   the satisfaction of mentioning his name.                                                            Life, Improbable Frequency, The Taming of
                                                                 Rory first slipped into Ross O’Carroll-Kelly’s        the Shrew and Peer Gynt (Rough Magic);
                   In recent years, Ross has concentrated        Dubes fourteen years ago in The Last Days of          Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in
                   his efforts on becoming one of Ireland’s      the Celtic Tiger. Since then he has appeared          Paris, Death of a Salesman, The Importance
                   most promising middle-aged coaches.           as Ross in sold out runs of the highly                of Being Earnest and A Christmas Carol (Gate
                   Determined to give something back – and       successful Between Foxrock and a Hard Place           Theatre); Roddy Doyle’s adaptation of The
                   encouraged, no doubt, by the generous         and Breaking Dad (Landmark Productions).              Playboy of the Western World, Macbeth,
                   remuneration package on offer – he                                                                  Big Love, Comedy of Errors, The Last Days
                   recently inspired his old school to victory   He appeared in Woyzeck in Winter (Landmark            of a Reluctant Tyrant, The Rivals, Arrah-na-
                   in the 2029 Leinster Schools Junior Cup.      Productions / Galway International Arts               Pogue, Translations, She Stoops To Conquer,
                   His triplet boys were in the starting XV,     Festival), which premiered in Galway in 2017          Aristocrats, The Government Inspector (Best
                   although obviously on merit, and he           and subsequently played at the Barbican,              Supporting Actor nomination Irish Times
                   resents the insinuation that it was any       London and at the Gaiety (DTF).                       Awards); Heavenly Bodies (Abbey Theatre);
                   other way.                                                                                          Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Corn Exchange);
                                                                 Rory has appeared in the Druid production             Woyzeck (Corcadorca) and Observe the
                   When he’s not inspiring the next              of The Cherry Orchard at The Town Hall                Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
                   generation of Irish players, Ross is          Theatre, Galway and has been seen as                  (Livin’ Dred).
                   working as an estate agent for Hook, Lyon     Pozzo in Druid’s acclaimed production of
                   and Sinker, doing his bit to create the       Waiting for Godot directed by Garry Hynes,            Screen credits include A Thousand Times
                   economic miracle that is Ireland’s latest     for which he was awarded Best Supporting              Goodnight with Juliette Binoche; FitzJohn
                   property bubble. He is still, unbelievably,   Actor at the Irish Times Irish Theatre                in the feature film WILD; the role of Charlie
                   married to Sorcha. Less unbelievably, he      Awards 2017. He is a member of the Druid              McCreevy in Charlie (Touchpaper Films/
                   still does alright on the side.               Company ensemble and has also appeared                RTÉ); Max Clayton in Fair City and most
                                                                 as Falstaff in DruidShakespeare (Best                 recently Morrice O’Hanlon in Acceptable
                                                                 Supporting Actor nomination Irish Times               Risk (RTÉ).
                                                                 Awards), Conversations on a Homecoming,
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                                                                                                    plot around them, then write jokes to                 director, Jimmy Fay, who is still teaching
                                                                                                    grout all the pieces together. But it’s actors        this old dog new tricks.
                                                                                                    who bring the comedy to life. And since

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                                                                                                    Anne Clarke of Landmark first suggested               Seeing Rory bring Ross to life has truly

         writ
                                                                                                    bringing the Rossmeister to a theatre                 been a thrill for me. And I’m delighted
                                                                                                    audience, I’ve been fortunate enough to               that, for once at least, he has the stage all
                                                                                                    work with some of the very best.                      to himself.

                                                                                                    I have so many highlights from the last               PAUL HOWARD
                                                                                                    fourteen years. The late Susan FitzGerald’s
                                                                                                    portrayal of Ross’s unscrupulous, yummy-
                                                                                                    mummy old dear, using her feminine
                                                                                                    wiles to disarm a tiger kidnapper in
                                                                                                    Between Foxrock and a Hard Place. Philip
                                                                                                    O’Sullivan’s nefarious yet lovable Charles,
What? Could it really be fourteen years since Rory Nolan first brought                              bringing Bertie Ahern back from the
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly to life on a Dublin theatre stage? It doesn’t seem                             political wilderness, then persuading
anything close to that long ago. But then I know that it was in the                                 Ross’s wife to join them on the Dark Side
                                                                                                    in Breaking Dad. Lisa Lambe’s pitch-perfect
summer of 2007 that I first met Rory in Maureen’s Bar at the back of                                Sorcha stepping onto the stage holding
the Olympia Theatre. With his shoulders pinned back, and his chin                                   a stolen masterpiece, The Taking of Christ,
raised forty-five degrees higher than seemed possible, he launched                                  in the final scene of Last Days, and, with
                                                                                                    impeccable comic timing, announcing,
into a monologue in a South Dublin accent that convinced me that I                                  “Oh my God, I love Caravaggio!”
was looking at the living, breathing incarnation of the character who’d
inhabited my head for the best part of a decade.                                                    And two equally brilliant Ronans. Rory
                                                                                                    Keenan’s award-winning take on the
The first Ross O’Carroll-Kelly play was             Since then, he has come to own the              eight-year-old Dublin gangster manqué,
called The Last Days of the Celtic Tiger. It        character, to the extent that, now, when        riding around on his faithful two-wheel
was meant to be an ironic title, since we           I’m writing the next book, or the weekly        steed. And Laurence Kinlan’s older, hands-
were still very much in the middle of it at         column in Irish Times, his version of Ross      down-the-front-of-his-trousers version,
the time, still enjoying this new mealtime          is my physical and aural reference point.       whose belief in crime was so rocked by
we’d all discovered called brunch, still            Rory’s Ross is my go-to impression of the       the professional incompetence of Gary
selling houses to each other for about              entitled, overly confident, far-thicker-than-   Cooke’s neurotic tiger kidnapper that he
three times more than they were actually            he-looks former schools rugby star, who         began to direct the operation himself.
worth. Even those Cassandras who                    beneath it all is vulnerable and ever so
foretold the end of Ireland’s decade of             slightly kind and easy to hurt.                 My involvement in bringing Ross to a
decadence spoke of a soft landing. There                                                            live theatre audience has been one of
was a brash stupidity about those times             The job of the comedy writer, from what         the great joys of my life as a writer. And it
and Rory captured it expertly from his very         I’ve learned so far, is to come up with         has been my great fortune to work with
first outing as Ross.                               amusing scenarios, build some kind of           the best in the business, especially the

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Jimmy Fay                                                                                        Grace Smart
Director                                                                                         Designer
                                                 Theatre, having also spent time there                              Grace was the overall winner of the 2015
                                                 as Staff Director, Associate Director and                          Linbury Prize for her design for Saint Joan
                                                 Literary Director. Directing work at the                           at The Lyric, Belfast.
                                                 Abbey includes the acclaimed production
                                                 of Owen McCafferty’s Quietly (also toured                          Her designs for theatre and opera
                                                 to Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013 and                              include: Herding Cats (Soho Theatre);
                                                 the Irish Rep, New York 2016), The Risen                           Susanna (Linbury Studio, ROH); Henry VI,
                                                 People, The Government Inspector, Curse of                         Richard III (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse,
                                                 the Starving Class, Macbeth, The Playboy of                        Shakespeare’s Globe); Crocodile Fever
                                                 the Western World, Ages of the Moon, The                           (Traverse, Edinburgh); The End of History…
                                                 Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The Seafarer,                        (Royal Court); God of Chaos (Theatre
                                                 Saved, The School for Scandal, Howie the                           Royal Plymouth); One Night in Miami…
                                                 Rookie, True West, Henry IV, The Muesli Belt,                      (Nottingham Playhouse/Bristol Old Vic/
                                                 At Swim-Two-Birds, Melonfarmer and The                             HOME, Manchester); Good Vibrations,
                                                 Papar. In New York he directed the world                           The Colleen Bawn, Here Comes the Night
For Landmark, Jimmy has directed Greener         premiere production of Sam Shepard’s                               (Lyric, Belfast); Killer Joe ( Trafalgar
by Fiona Looney, and all the previous            play Ages of the Moon starring Stephen Rea                         Studios); Postcards from the Ledge (Gaiety,
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly plays: Breaking Dad,        at the Atlantic Theater. Jimmy was the first                       Dublin); The World’s Wife (WNO); Shebeen
Between Foxrock and a Hard Place and             Director of the Dublin Fringe Festival and                         (Nottingham Playhouse); Mighty Atoms
The Last Days of the Celtic Tiger, all by        Artistic Director of Bedrock Productions.                          (Hull Truck); Normal, Blasted (STYX); East
Paul Howard.                                     Directing credits there include the Irish                          is East (Northern Stage/Nottingham
                                                 premieres of This Is Our Youth, Roberto                            Playhouse); Shopping and Fucking (Lyric
Jimmy is the Executive Producer of the           Zucco, Blasted, Night Just Before The Forest,                      Hammersmith); A Midsummer Night’s
Lyric Theatre, Belfast, where he has             Quay West and Faraway. In 2007 he was                              Dream (Guildhall); Here Lie the Remains
directed Double Cross by Tom Kilroy (co-         invited to curate the theatre programme                            of Mercy (Theatre Deli); Wonderland (UK
production with The Abbey), Fire Below           for the prestigious Kilkenny Arts Festival.                        Tour); Bar Mitzvah Boy (Gatehouse); A
(a war of words) by Owen McCafferty                                                                                 Doll’s House (The Space); Object Love
(co-production with The Abbey), The                                                                                 (VAULT Festival); The Pier (Studio, Oxford
Ladykillers by Graham Linehan, St. Joan                                                                             Playhouse); The Picture of Dorian Gray and
by Bernard Shaw, Here Comes the Night by                                                                            3 Sisters on Hope Street (LIPA).
Rosemary Jenkinson, Pentecost by Stewart
Parker, Mixed Marriage by St John Ervine
and True West by Sam Shepard. He has
been an Associate Artist of the Abbey

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Writer                       Paul Howard
       Landmark Productions
                                                                 Director                     Jimmy Fay

ROSS O’CARROLL-KELLY
                                                                 Set and Costume Designer     Grace Smart
                                                                 Lighting Designer            Paul Keogan

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                                                                 Sound Designer               Denis Clohessy

                                                                 Production Manager           Eamonn Fox
                                                                 Stage Director               Sophie Flynn

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                                                                 Stage Manager                Dylan Farrell
from the                                                         Costume Supervisor
                                                                 Hair and Make-Up
                                                                                              Ciara Fleming
                                                                                              Val Sherlock
                                                                 Mic Technician               Niall Woods

                                                                 Set Construction     TPS
           Cast
                                                                 Scenic Artists       Sandra Butler, Jason McCaffrey
           Ross		 Rory Nolan

           by   Paul Howard
           Featuring the voices of
                                                                 Producer
                                                                 Digital Producer
                                                                                      Anne Clarke
                                                                                      Hugh Farrell
           Ronan		           Laurence Kinlan                     Marketing            Sinead McPhillips
           Charles		         Philip O’Sullivan                   Social Media Comms   Doireann Gillan
                                                                 Publicity            Sabrina Sheehan | Mission PR
           Lucy		            Kate Gilmore
                                                                 Box Office Assistant Annie Duffy McMahon
           Sorcha		          Lisa Lambe
                                                                 Photography          Patrick Redmond
           Honor		           Caoimhe O’Malley
                                                                 Illustration         Alan Clarke
                                                                 Graphic Design       Gareth Jones
           Time – May 2029
           Place – 22 Glenageary Crescent, Sallynoggin, Dublin   Join the conversation online @RossOCK #PostcardsfromtheLedge
           The performance runs for approximately 2 hours,
           including an interval of 15 minutes.                  BROADCAST STREAMING | SEISMIC
                                                                 Director                  Noel Vaughan
                                                                 Camera Operators          Martin Cavanagh
                                                                                           Katie Hughes
                                                                 Audio Engineer            Karl McGovern
                                                                 Streaming Directors       Willie Van Velzen
                                                                                              Matt Herlihy
                                                                 Executive Producer           Jessica Fuller
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Paul Keogan                                                          Denis Clohessy
Lighting Designer                                                    Sound Designer
                    Paul studied Drama at Trinity College                                  Denis has worked with numerous
                    Dublin and Glasgow University.                                         dance and theatre companies including
                                                                                           The Abbey Theatre, The Gate Theatre,
                    Recent theatre credits include Breaking                                Fishamble, Rough Magic, Junk Ensemble,
                    Dad, Between Foxrock and a Hard Place,                                 Brokentalkers, CoisCéim, Corn Exchange,
                    The Walworth Farce (Landmark                                           The Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Northlight
                    Productions); Katie Roche, Cyprus Avenue,                              Theatre, Chicago and Beijing Children’s
                    The Plough and the Stars, Our Few and Evil                             Theatre. He won the Irish Times Theatre
                    Days, The Risen People and Drum Belly                                  Award for Best Design Sound in 2019 and
                    (Abbey Theatre); The Caretaker (Bristol Old                            2010 and was a nominee in 2015. Denis
                    Vic); A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian                         was an associate artist with the Abbey
                    and The Gaul (Hull Truck); Tribes, Blasted,                            in 2008 and was a participant on Rough
                    Afterplay and Blue/Orange (Crucible,                                   Magic’s ADVANCE programme in 2012. In
                    Sheffield); Sinners, Here Comes The Night                              2016 Pat Kinevane’s play Silent (Fishamble)
                    (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); A Streetcar Named                            won an Olivier Award, for which Denis
                    Desire (Liverpool Playhouse); Molly                                    composed the music.
                    Sweeney (Gate Theatre); Before it Rains
                    (Sherman Cymru/Bristol Old Vic); The                                   His work in film includes composing music
                    Hudsucker Proxy (Nuffield, Southampton);                               for the feature films Under The Clock and
                    Far Away (Corcadora Theatre Company);                                  Older than Ireland (Snack box Films), The
                    and Big Maggie (Druid).                                                Irish Pub (Atom Films), His and Hers (Venom
                                                                                           Film), The Land of the Enlightened (Savage
                    Recent opera credits include Falstaff                                  Film), In View (Underground Cinema) and
                    (Vienna State Opera); Dialogues des                                    The Reluctant Revolutionary (Underground
                    Carmelites (Grange Park Opera); Wake                                   Films). His television work includes
                    (Nationale Reisopera, Netherlands);                                    Abbeyfeale Good and The Confessors (Atom
                    The Makropulos Case (Opera Zuid,                                       Films), The Bailout (John Kelleher Media)
                    Netherlands); and Dead Man Walking                                     and the TV series The Limits of Liberty
                    (Opera Ireland) .                                                      (South Wind Blows) performed by the RTÉ
                                                                                           Concert Orchestra.
                    Recent dance credits include Giselle (Ballet
                    Ireland); Cassandra and Hansel and Gretel
                    (Royal Ballet); and No Man’s Land (English
                    National Ballet/Queensland Ballet).

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The Stage Years

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Thank You
Landmark Productions would like to thank
Manus Agnew, Maurice Cassidy, Eamonn Ceannt, Alan Clarke, Tom Clinch, Richard
Cook, Joan Costello, Sara Cregan, Moya Doherty, Druid Theatre Company, Dubarry of
Ireland, Dubray Books, Julian Erskine, Paul Fahy, John Finn, Jackie Gallagher, Brendan
Galvin, Basil Geoghegan, Michael Gleeson, Pádraig Heneghan, Sile Heneghan, Paul
Joyce, Julie Kelleher and all at Mermaid Arts Centre, Eoin Kilkenny, Cliona Lewis, Sheena
Masterson, John McBratney, Noelle McCarthy, John McColgan, Sinead McGrath, Michael
McLoughlin, Tracey McLoughlin, Gerard McNaughton, Aaron Monaghan, Pat Moylan,
Faith O’Grady, Maura O’Keeffe, Stephen O’Neill, Gavin O’Sullivan, Patricia Reilly, Jonathan
Rothwell, Renata Fitzpatrick Sheridan, Jonathan Shankey, Cally Shine, Tom Slattery,
Eleanor White, Emily White and Jonathan White.

Virtual Tour Partners
Postcards from the Ledge is broadcast live by Landmark Productions from the stage of                                             LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS
Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, and is presented as part of a nationwide virtual tour to the
following venues:

UCH Limerick; Cork Opera House; Pavilion, Dún Laoghaire; Town Hall Theatre, Galway; An
Grianán, Letterkenny; Backstage Theatre, Longford; Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise; glór,
Ennis; Siamsa Tíre, Tralee; The Courthouse Arts Centre, Wicklow and Wexford Arts Centre.

Thank you to all our partners.

Paul Howard would like to thank
Anne Clarke and her brilliant Landmark team, who have made the last fourteen years so              BY     DEIRDRE KINAHAN
                                                                                              DIRECTED BY LOUISE LOWE
memorable and so rewarding, especially Sara Cregan, Sophie Flynn and Jonathan White.
With Landmark, you always get to work with the very best of people. On this show, it has
                                                                                                 STARRING MARIE MULLEN
been my pleasure to work with Paul Keogan, Eamonn Fox, Carl Kennedy, Denis Clohessy,
Grace Smart and Val Sherlock. Thank you to the cast, seen and unseen: Lisa Lambe, Philip
O’Sullivan, Laurence Kinlan and Caoimhe O’Malley. And fond thoughts going out to                      AND BRIAN GLEESON
the late Susan Fitzgerald. Thanks to my agent, Faith O’Grady. Thanks to my wife, Mary
McCarthy. And massive, massive thanks to the two men without whom I would never                         Live Broadcast from Everyman Theatre, Cork
have pulled any of this off: director Jimmy Fay, my Phil Spector (without the threats of                as part of Cork Midsummer Festival
gun violence); and the great Rory Nolan, a legend in his own Dubes
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