One Act Drama Festival 2025

Set in a bustling village hair salon, where gossip, secrets, and scissors all fly in equal measure. As clients come and go, the stylists find themselves tangled in more than just hair, with revelations, rivalries, and laughter bubbling beneath the surface. This play offers a light-hearted yet revealing glimpse into small-town life and the ties that bind a community together.

Set over the course of one unexpected evening, From Eden brings together two strangers who find themselves sharing the same small bathroom. As the night unfolds, fragments of their pasts and hopes for the future begin to surface. Blending humour, heart, and humanity, this is a tender exploration of loneliness, connection, and the search for redemption in the most unlikely of places.

Ever wish that little voice in your head would just shut up?   Norm Foster’s charming comedy invites us to peek into the private thoughts we usually keep hidden. As two lonely hearts stumble through the trials of dating, their inner narrators provide a running (often unhelpful) commentary, revealing hopes, fears, and insecurities we all recognize. Hilarious, heartfelt, and delightfully relatable, My Narrator reminds us that love often begins when we quiet the voices of doubt and truly listen, both to ourselves and to each other. 

A seemingly, unlikely group gather to rehearse a play written by the larger-than-life Cynthia Lydia Mulligan.

As rehearsals progress, they face numerous challenges, including unwilling actors, forgotten lines, misplaced props, and last-minute cast changes.

Despite all this chaos, will they manage to pull off the performance..?

Set in the aftermath of a party, Normal explores what it really means to be “normal”. When two women find themselves tidying up the mess left behind, their polite conversation quickly unravels into something deeper, exposing love, fear, and the fragile boundaries between care and control.

When a burglar breaks into what seems like just another house, he quickly finds that things are far from ordinary. In Nancy Friday, the unexpected encounter with a mysterious woman leads him into a world where reality and fantasy blur. Secrets and symbols, handcuffs, chains, whispered regrets, mark the space, and what began as a simple crime becomes a game of power, fear, and survival. A theatrical cat-and-mouse match that asks: do our pasts trap us, or can we truly break free?

Two elderly farmers, Eamon and Nashee, meet at a gate on a remote hillside. These men are old friends, old rivals, old neighbours. They are men of heart, of humour, of hardness. Their conversation is a throwback to a gentler time, when silence was as telling as declaration, and meaning was more often found between the lines than on them. But there’s nothing gentle about today’s conversation. In facing the bitter reality of their remote defiance, they have grown fearful and desperate. Now they are forced to confront each other with some heartbreaking truths that test their friendship to its limit.

Willow is a poignant one-act play set over the course of a single day in a quiet seaside town in the west of Ireland. Through subtle and emotionally charged interactions, it explores the themes of love, loss, and the fragile nature of memory and truth. As the characters navigate personal revelations and unspoken grief, the play gently challenges the audience to consider how subjective truth can shape relationships and define the paths we choose.

When an ambitious reporter enters a maximum-security prison to interview a powerful drug lord, he expects to expose corruption and crime from a safe moral distance. Instead, the conversation twists into a confrontation, as the prisoner gradually reveals that the reporter himself is a customer of the very cartel he seeks to condemn. What begins as an exposé becomes a dangerous unmasking, where privilege, hypocrisy, and society’s double standards collide. The play holds a mirror up to both journalist and audience, asking: who truly sustains the world we claim to oppose?