(Please note, the following has nothing to do with Northern Ireland, playwriting, or anything for which this class exists.  It is purely silliness for silliness’s sake and both a jibe at and a tribute to a good friend.  Abandon all deep thought, ye who enter here.) So how does one out-meta Chris Warman?  This is […]

We did it.  We performed today. We gathered with an audience of about fifty people in a little box of a theatre (thank God it was one of the only air-conditioned rooms in Armagh) and sat all in a row, staring back at the risers where our compatriots and our critics perched.  Our scripts were […]

A writer of books once asked, “Teacher, what must I do to sell my work?” “What do the self-help books say?” the Teacher asked.  “How do you interpret them?” “Thou shalt love what you write with heart and soul, and thou shalt keep thy audience in mind as you write,” he answered. “You have spoken […]

As part of our ieiMedia curriculum, we the playwriting students have had to read five plays by Irish authors: Shadow of a Gunman by Sean O’Casey (and for some reason whenever I hear that name my mental jukebox starts playing “Smooth Criminal”) The Playboy of the Western World by J. M. Synge (and no, that […]