In 2017 we embarked on an exciting project with artist in residence, choreographer and dancer Catherine Young entitled Welcoming the Stranger.
Past Projects

Utopia
Nov 2016
An ensemble of performers from St Christopher’s Services, Longford and The Visual Theatre Programme in Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray devised a theatre production under the direction of Gemma Gallagher of Shadowbox Theatre Company who created work that challenges expectations and perceptions about disability.

Castle Rackrent
In Nov 2018 Backstage Theatre and Creative Ireland Longford in association with Captain Moonlight Theatre Company will be staging a new musical adaptation of Castle Rackrent Maria Edgeworth’s legendary comic masterpiece to celebrate the 250th anniversary of her birth.

DNA
Sep 2017
A group of teenagers are messing in the woods when things go wrong. They do something bad, really bad…

A Coming of Age
In an alternate Ireland of 2016, a group of armed students called ‘The Right Fight’ occupy Longford Court House. They are protesting the Government’s new ‘Non-Irish’ laws which mean that only people born in Ireland are entitled to be Irish citizens.

Frank Pig Says Hello
Sep 2015
Frank Pig Says Hello is the stage adaptation of Pat McCabe’s award-winning novel The Butcher Boy.