Green Curtain Theatre encourages new writing. We have staged twelve new plays on a variety of topics since we were established. All of these plays have been written by members of the Irish Diaspora.
Legacy of Loss- 2024
It is 1957 and Irish republican Muriel MacSwiney, now in her sixties and living in England looks back on her journey during the turbulent years of 1915 -1923 as she eschewed her wealthy background in favour of the cause of Irish freedom.
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The Power and The People- 2023
If the land on which Battersea Power Station was built could speak, what stories would it tell? That was the question posed in our production of the ‘Power and The People’ which was performed as part of the Wandsworth Arts Fringe Festival 2023.
Click here to read more about the production.
Mosely Must Fall’- 2018
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The conflict that occurred in an Irish family, living in the East End of London as Oswald Mosely and his fascists prepare to march through the Jewish and Irish ghettos.
Click here to read about the rise of Fascism in the East End of London in the 1930s.
‘What’s the Story?’- 2018
The story of Mary Fleming and Aileen Turner, two Irish nurses who ran into a blazing building to save the lives of their patients after their ward was hit by a German bomb.
Click here to read about Irish Nurses in World War II
And here to read more about Molly Fleming one of the nurses who was awarded the George Medal as told by her nephew Liam Treacy.
‘A Tragic Carmody’- 2018
The story of how internationally recognised artist Brian Whelan tried to organise an exhibition with fellow Irish London artist Danny Carmody, an Irish builder.
Click here to read artist Brian Whelan’s personal memoir of Danny Carmody.
‘Body and Blood’ 2016
‘Crows by Day, Jackals by Night’- 2016
The lives of those who joined the British Forces to fight in the Second World War. 2016
Click here to read Maureen Alcorn’s account of why her Donegal father, like many others enlisted in the British Army.
‘The Importance of Being’ 2016
The sadness of a, Irish woman whose child was taken from her for adoption by the State.
Click here to read an article by Anne Curtis, the writer of the play.
‘Traitors, Cads and Cowards’ 2016
An interchange between an Irish freedom fighter with his two cell mates in Wandsworth Prison following the Easter Rising in 1916.
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‘Women’s Work’ 2016
How diaspora, identity and dementia affected the lives of three women living in London as the centenary of the Easter Rising approached.
Click here to read about how dementia and issues of identity affect the Irish community.
‘Just Above Dogs’. Performed in 2011, 2012, 2016 and 2018
Exploitation of Irish labourers working on the sites in England.
Click here to read more the Irish men who came to Great Britain to work on the sites.
Craic in the Crypt
Two Italian workmen arrive from Rome to do the electrics. A housekeeper from nowhere offers her services for free. A bishop insists that he evacuates his North London Church. All that before the public health inspector announces an infestation of ‘silent bees’.
A hapless Father O’Flaherty is struggling to cope. Who wants him out of the way? What does it have to do with the hidden cache in the Holy Cavity? How does the legend of the Holy Key fit in? And why are the nuns and those Italian workmen never in the same room at the same time?
Performed at the Harrow Arts Centre and the Omnibus Arts Theatre, London SW4 in March 2014
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