The Pride of Parnell Street
Award-winning Irish theatre company Fishamble's acclaimed production of Sebastian Barry's stage play comes to radio. An intimate, heroic tale of life on the streets of Dublin.
Sebastian Barry's intimate, heroic tale of ordinary and extraordinary life on the streets of Dublin. Irish theatre company Fishamble has taken the stage production to London and New York, as well as venues across Ireland and Europe. Through interconnecting monologues, an estranged couple, Janet and Joe, chart the intimacies of their love and the rupturing of their relationship, as well as their enduring love affair with the city itself.
Janet ..... Mary Murray
Joe ..... Aidan Kelly
Music composed by Denis Clohessy
Directed by Jim Culleton
Produced by Toby Swift at 91热爆 Audio
Mary Murray won the Best Actress award in the 2023 91热爆 Audio Drama Awards for her performance as Janet in The Pride of Parnell Street.
Fishamble discovers, develops and produces new plays of national importance with a global reach. It has toured its productions to audiences throughout Ireland, and to 19 other countries. Fishamble champions the role of the playwright, typically supporting over 50% of the writers of all new plays produced on the island of Ireland each year. 鈥婽he company has received many awards in Ireland and internationally, including an Olivier Award.
Jim Culleton is the Artistic Director and CEO of Fishamble.
Sebastian Barry was the second Irish Laureate (2019-2021). His novels have won, among other awards, the Costa Book of the Year award twice, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Best Novel, The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction (again twice) and has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He is also a multiple prize-winning playwright, works including the acclaimed The Steward of Christendom (Royal Court/Broadway).
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