Season 2026-2027

Doubt (A Parable) John Patrick Shanley.  Irish Classical Theatre Company

EMMA

By KATE HAMIll based on the novel by Jane Austen

September 18 – October 4, 2026

A sparkling and spirited re-imagining of Austen’s classic novel, where a confident matchmaker’s meddling spirals into comic chaos. Friendship, folly and the messy business of love.

Emma Woodhouse is clever, educated, energetic… and in imminent danger of going mad with idleness. In a time when respectable ladies are expected to sit quietly at home, she desperately needs a project—and prides herself on matchmaking, much to the chagrin of her friend Mr. Knightley. But where Emma aims her attention, tangled hearts and screwball comedy follows… A fresh feminist take on a treasured classic, this Emma breaks down convention, expectation, and even the fourth wall with vibrant comic flair—leading audiences “forward, onward, and upward!”

The Mai. Marina Carr.  Irish Classical Theatre Company

SPRING AWAKENING

By FRANK WEDEKIND in a new adaptation by Anya Reiss

April 16 – May 2, 2027

Budding consciousness, innocence, inexperience and rebellion ignite in this darkly electrifying adaptation of Spring Awakening. When no one speaks, youth pay the price. Searching for light, but kept in the dark.

Unnerving, entertaining, funny and dark, Wedekind’s definitive play about youth caused riots when it exploded onto the stage in 1906 and has lost none of its provocative power. Powerfully updated by award-winning playwright Anya Reiss, this new version examines the exuberance, intensity and confusion of teenage life today. Spring Awakening shatters the silence about how young people are shaped for their future by a generation that doesn’t understand them.

Great Expectations. Charles Dickens.  Irish Classical Theatre Company

A SHERLOCK CAROL

By MARK SHANAHAN

November 27 – December 13, 2026

When a grown-up Tiny Tim asks Holmes to investigate the mysterious death of Ebenezer Scrooge, Sherlock must use his gifts to solve a Dickens of a Christmas mystery! A classic holiday mystery with a spirited twist.

Moriarty is dead, to begin with, and Sherlock Holmes is a haunted man. But when a grown-up Tiny Tim asks Holmes to investigate the death of Ebenezer Scrooge, the Great Detective must use his gifts to solve a Dickens of a Christmas mystery! A witty, suspenseful, and heartwarming adventure filled with twists, laughs, and holiday cheer. Perfect for mystery lovers and Christmas traditionalists alike, this theatrical treat will leave you guessing—and glowing—all season long.

The Tempest. William Shakespeare.  Irish Classical Theatre Company

DENOUEMENT

By JOHN MORTON

June 4 – 20, 2027

As the world approaches its final hour, a couple married for nearly four decades must confront the truths and lies of a lifetime together. What’s left to say at the end?

Set in Ireland in 2048, Denouement by John Morton unfolds in the final hour before the world ends. Edel and Liam have been married for 37 years and now live alone in a remote farmhouse at the foot of a mountain. With their children long gone and time running out, they spend their last moments saying goodbye to old friends, former lovers, and to the lives they once imagined. As memories surface and old grievances return, love, resentment, humor, and tenderness collide in a darkly funny, deeply human portrait of a marriage facing its ultimate ending.

Great Expectations. Charles Dickens.  Irish Classical Theatre Company

GHOSTS

By THOMAS KILROY

February 26 – March 14, 2027

A house full of secrets, and an inescapable legacy. Ibsen’s Ghosts returns in a fierce, contemporary adaptation about truth, inheritance, and the cost of silence, set in 1980s Ireland. Every family has ghosts.

In this powerful adaptation of Ghosts (1881), Thomas Kilroy reimagines Henrik Ibsen’s groundbreaking drama as a haunting excavation of family, legacy, and the devastating cost of silence. As a widow prepares to consecrate the memory of her late husband, their carefully constructed story of a respectable life begins to fracture. Long-buried truths surface, revealing how a father’s struggles are visited upon his children in a family terrified of the ghosts that surround them. In this searing portrait of moral reckoning, the forces of past and present collide, probing the fragile boundary between private truth and public reputation, between the authority of religion and the realities of human desire.