Adrift
ADRIFT
Presented by
Nomad Theatre Network in association with Once Off Productions
Written by Deirdre Kinahan
Directed by Marc Atkinson Borrull
There was a time when I knew every face on main street.
Yes, and you couldn’t stand half of them!
A birthday celebration turns febrile when a rural Irish family address their sister’s relationship with a refugee. Fierce, funny and immediate, ADRIFT is a contemporary family drama exploring the psychology of fear and Ireland’s complex relationship with emigration.
Previous loved plays include OUTRAGE, The Saviour, An Old Song Half Forgotten, TEMPESTA, The Unmanageable Sisters, Rathmines Road, Moment, Halcyon Days.
You can’t even have the conversation!
Well, what better place than theatre? In ADRIFT, Kinahan explores the ironic rise of Irish anti-immigrant sentiment with her celebrated humour and humanity, taking the arguments that seem to set fire to hearts and buildings right into the Irish kitchen.
Joined by a stellar cast and acclaimed Director Marc Atkinson Borrull (An Ideal Husband, Gate Theatre; Three Sisters, Dublin Theatre Festival; Tempesta also by Deirdre Kinahan, Cork Midsummer & Glassmask Theatre) ADRIFT promises a wonderfully honest, empathetic and unsettling night at the Theatre.
*****
Critical acclaim for Deirdre Kinahan…
“Deirdre Kinahan is one of Ireland’s major contemporary playwrights. She writes about issues that affect modern Ireland as well as the issues that have clouded its past. She is a masterful, poetic writer, with a way with a phrase that just dazzles”
-The Slotkin Letter, Canada
*****
Cast:
Bríd Ní Neachtain
(Banshees of Inisheerin & Ros Na Rún)
John Olohan
(An Cailin Cuin, That They May Face The Rising Sun)
Catherine Byrne
(That They May Face The Rising Sun, Love/Hate, The Tudors)
Darragh Feehely
(The Body Is Water, Groundless)
Janet Moran
(The Dry, The Last Rifleman, Breakfast On Pluto)
*****
Click below for Adrift Autumn Tour 2026 dates:
6 – 7 November
Backstage Theatre, Longford
11 November
Townhall Arts Centre, Cavan
13 – 14 November
Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda
18 November
An Grianán Theatre, Letterkenny
21 November
Roscommon Arts Centre
24 November
Hawkswell Theatre, Sligo
26 – 27 November
Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire
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