John Morton

Concepta Bloom

July 21, 2019

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“Look at us, dotes to a woman” Here’s an introduction to the next of The Roaring Banshees. Concepta Bloom is a former captive of the nuns. A canny accountant who cooks the books better than anyone. Prone to bouts of religious ecstacy, hysteria and garroting. The Loose Cannon. Laura Brady is making her Devious Theatre […]

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Siona ni gCopaleen aka The Morrigan

July 19, 2019

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“Hands for killing” Here’s the first full introduction to one of The Roaring Banshees of our upcoming gangster yarn. Siona ni gCopaleen aka The Morrigan is a deadpan, chain smoking executioner, feared throughout the land as the harbinger of death. Trigger happy and takes every slight personally and with a smile. The Assassin. Siona is […]

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The Great Big Devious Table Game Of General Knowledge Show

July 13, 2019

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We’re continuing our fundraising drive for The Roaring Banshees with a table quiz this coming Sunday night. We’ve asked controversial comedian (twice banned from Twitter) Liam Nugent to put together a table quiz for us and here it is, the sixth edition of the Great Big Devious Table Game Of General Knowledge Show. It will […]

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Trigger Happy Harpies

June 26, 2019

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Cover your ears, The Roaring Banshees are about to howl… Here’s the first full look at the cast of our upcoming gangster yarn from Peter McGann & John Morton. A gun slinging, barn burning, bootlegging, coddle cooking, tan slaying, bullet riddling, body burying, bloodcurdling squadron of trigger happy harpies have just landed in the Windy […]

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Ladies And Gentlemen, The Banshees!

June 8, 2019

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We are over the moon to introduce the cast of our new production The Roaring Banshees. Laura Brady, Amy Dunne, Ali Fox, Nessa Matthews, Clodagh Mooney Duggan, Aine Ni Laoghaire, Aoife Spratt. We’re very excited to see these fantastic actors bring the trigger happy harpies to life when our new gangster yarn hits stages in […]

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Injected

May 21, 2019

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Thanks a tonne to everyone who came down to Cleere’s Theatre over the weekend to see Pulp Injection. It was a pleasure to put Peter McGann’s pulpy radio plays onto a hometown stage and we were thrilled with the response over the two performances. Thanks to the wonderful cast of Amy Dunne, Ciaran Dunphy, Hazel […]

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Pulp Injection

April 30, 2019

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We’re returning to our regular stomping ground of Cleere’s Theatre for our first run out of the year. And we’re getting to dust down our radio chops while we’re at it. We’re delighted to present Pulp Injection, old-school pulpy radio plays written and directed by Peter McGann. Pulp Injection has played at The Workman’s Club […]

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A New List

April 20, 2019

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We made a new list. Our new poster for The Roaring Banshees reveals the names of the seven women who make up Cumann na mBan’s most feared unit. Chicago, 1923. After a failed assassination attempt on Eamon de Valera, a rogue Cumann na mBán unit flee across the Atlantic to escape the law. With Prohibition […]

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The Roaring Banshees

February 6, 2019

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We’re kicking off 2019 with a bang by announcing our brand new show. And there’s a lot of bangs in this one! The Roaring Banshees by Peter McGann and John Morton is a rip roaring gangster saga that takes us into the world of Irish immigrants in 1920’s Chicago at the height of Prohibition. The […]

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We’re Moving!

November 29, 2018

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Friends! After a most wonderful, joyous and insanely fun 7 year run of making, developing and cooking plays, we will be departing Devious HQ in The Maltings (aka The Bunker) early in the new year. We are jettisoning most of what we own in the process. We’ve built up a huge stock of costumes in […]

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