CUCKOO TIME

“No-one should leave this world unloved.

That’s the worst thing that can happen.

Worse than death?

Much worse…”

Two oddballs – her a volatile Swedish jazz singer, who has burnt her bridges with both her daughter and the local Irish community that rejects her, him a bird-loving older widower lost in time – are washed up together on a farm on the edge of the Atlantic. Fuelled by birdsong and brandy they try and live out the love story each of them has secretly longed for and been denied. But the world has no time for this scandalous – and explosive – pairing and takes action to burst their bubble. Separated in time and space, something of their odd misshapen love survives and is witnessed even if only by the birds…

“Whatever is wrong with you is just right for me.”


A new play by Carmel Winters written for the Glass Mask Theatre Stage.

"Superb Performances"

The Irish Independent

"We are in very safe hands with these actors. Conroy is superb in the role. His embodiment of Michael, (like his father “and his father before him, only not dead yet”) is replete and utterly convincing. Griehsel’s flamboyantly expressive style and excellent comic timing creates a larger than life persona which contrasts perfectly with Conroy’s restrained but funny, bewildered but introspective denotation of someone struggling with grief and memory loss."

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'Persians' at The Peacock

THEATRE WORK

Brendan’s work at the Abbey Theatre includes The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant, The Playboy of the Western World (US and national tour), The Field (Russian tour), Translations (US and European tour), Cúirt an Mheán Oíche (Gaeltacht tour), A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant, The Hostage, At-Swim-Two Birds, A Little Like Paradise, Mandragola and Calvary.

Other theatre work includes Dracula, Famine, The Beggar’s Opera (Druid), The Bachelor of Kilkish (Bottom Dog), Dreamland (Garter Lane Tour), Mrs Joyce is Leaving Paris (Backloft Theatre), Guerilla Days in Ireland (Everyman Cork, Olympia Theatre and tour), The Field (Olympia Theatre), Translations (Ouroborus), Namhaid don Phobal (Taibhdhearc), End of the Beginning, The Well of the Saints (Big Telly), The Tempest and The Big Yum Yum (Corcadorca), Silas Marner, Oedipus Rex (Storytellers), Juno and the Paycock (Northern Stage), Romeo and Juliet(Pavilion Theatre), What the Butler Saw, Talbot’s Box, Kings of the Kilburn High Road, Bent, Translations and  Moonshine. Brendan directed The Price and The Guernica Hotel (Red Kettle). He had great success  playing Bird in The Field to Brian Dennehy’s Bull directed by Joe Dowling. 

"Not a whit, we defy augury. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all..."

Hamlet

Playboy of the Western World

The ABBEY &
The PEACOCK

HEARTBREAK HOUSE
THE LAST DAYS OF A RELUCTANT TYRANT
PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD (US and national tour)
TRANSLATIONS
THE FIELD
A CRUCIAL WEEK IN THE LIFE OF A GROCER’S ASSISTANT
MANDRAGOLA
CALVARY
A LITTLE LIKE PARADISE
THE HOSTAGE
AT SWIM WITH TWO BIRDS
CUIRT an MHEAN OICHE
TRANSLATIONS

 

The Well of the Saints

THEATRE

24 HOURS FROM TULSK, The Viking Theatre
THE CHASTITUTE, Gaiety Theatre
SACRIFICE AT EASTER, Corcadroca
GULLIVER, Big Telly Theatre Co
DREAMLAND, Garter Lane Tour
MR JOYCE IS LEAVING PARIS, Backloft Theatre
GUERILLA DAYS IN IRELAND, Everyman Theatre Cork, Tour and Olympia Theatre Dublin
THE FIELD, Olympia Theatre
BOICINI BOTHAR KILBURN, Taibhearc na Gaillime
NAMHAID don PHOBAL, Taibhearc na Gaillime
END OF THE BEGINNING / WELL OF THE SAINTS, Big Telly Theatre Co
TRANSLATIONS, Ouraboras
INTEMPERANCE, Liverpool Everyman
THE TEMPEST, Corcadorca
SILAS MARINER, Storytellers
OEDIPUS REX, Storytellers
JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK, Northern Stage
ROMEO AND JULIET, Pavillion Theatre

The Field

RED KETTLE

KINGS OF THE KILBURN HIGH ROAD
WHAT THE BUTLER SAW
TALBOT’S BOX
MOONSHINE
TRANSLATIONS
BENT

DRUID

DRACULA
FAMINE
THE BEGGARS OPERA