Donal OKelly - Little Thing, Big Thing

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ISBN: PB: 978-1-4725-8288-1 ePub: 978-1-4725-8287-4 ePDF: 978-1-4725-8286-7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Visit www.bloomsbury.com to find out more about our authors and their books. You will find extracts, author interviews, author events and you can sign up for newsletters to be the first to hear about our latest releases and special offers. ContentspresentsLittle Thing, Big Thing by Donal OKellyFishamble is funded by the Arts Council, Dublin City Council and Culture Ireland. The premiere production of this play wassupported by RT Supporting the Arts. Little Thing, Big Thing by Donal OKelly was first produced by Fishamble: The New Play Company in March 2014 with the following cast and production team.

It was co-commissioned by Fishamble in partnership with the STROLLERS Touring Network. CAST

Martha	Sorcha Fox
Larry	Donal OKelly

PRODUCTION TEAM

Director	Jim Culleton
Producer	Marketa Dowling
Set & Lighting Designer	John Comiskey
Costume Designer	Maria Tapper
Sound Designer	Carl Kennedy
Graphic Designer	Gareth Jones
Dramaturg	Gavin Kostick
Production Manager	Tom Dowling
Stage Manager	Paula Tierney
Relighter	Adam Fitzsimons
PR	Sinead ODoherty at Gerry
Lundberg PR
Stills Photographer	Pat Redmond
Video Promotion	Evan Flynn
Production Assistant	Andrea Cleary
Assistant Director	Colette Cullen

Placement as part of Fishambles theatre company-in-association status at UCD About Fishamble: The New Play Company Fishamble is an award-winning, internationally acclaimed Irish theatre company, dedicated to the discovery, development and production of new work. So far, it has produced 134 new plays, including 45 stand alone plays and 89 short plays as part of longer works, by first time and established playwrights. Fishamble is committed to touring its work to audiences throughout Ireland and internationally and typically presents over 200 performances of its plays in approximately 80 venues per year. Fishamble has brought its productions to audiences throughout Ireland as well as to England, Scotland, Wales, France, Germany, Iceland, Croatia, Belgium, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, USA, Canada and Australia. Awards for Fishamble productions include Fringe First Awards, Herald Angel Awards, Argus Angel Awards, Irish Times Theatre Awards, MAMCA Awards, 1st Irish Awards and, for many of its first time playwrights, Stewart Parker Trust Awards.

During 2013, to celebrate the companys 25th birthday, Fishamble donated its living archive to the National Library of Ireland. Fishamble is at the heart of new writing for theatre in Ireland, not just through its productions, but through its extensive programme of Training, Development and Mentoring schemes. Each year, Fishamble supports 60% of the writers of all new plays produced on the island of Ireland, approximately 50 plays per year. This happens in a variety of ways; for example, Fishamble supports: the public through an ongoing range of playwriting courses in Dublin and off-site for literary and arts festivals nationwide playwrights and theatre companies through The New Play Clinic, which develops new plays planned for production by theatre artists and companies, and the annual Fishamble New Writing Award at Dublin Fringe actors through its Show in a Bag programme, which creates and showcases new plays for actors, in association with the Irish Theatre Institute and Dublin Fringe students through work in association with TCD, NUIG, NUIM, IES, DIT, and as Theatre Company in Association at UCD Drama Studies Centre emerging artists through Mentoring Schemes in association with venues and local authorities, for playwrights and directors. Fishamble puts electricity in the National Grid of dreams. Brian Friel Fishamble: The New Play Company Shamrock Chambers 1/2 Eustace Street Dublin 2 Ireland Tel: +353-1-670 4018, fax: +353-1-670 4019 E-mail: www.fishamble.com www.facebook.com/fishamble www.twitter.com/fishamble Previous Fishamble World Premiere Productions 2013 The Bruising of Clouds by Sean McLoughlin (now Sean P Hutchins) Guaranteed! by Colin Murphy Tiny Plays for Ireland 2 by 25 writers Silent by Pat Kinevane (revival) The Great Goat Bubble by Julian Gough (revival) The Wheelchair on My Face by Sonya Kelly (revival) Forgotten by Pat Kinevane (revival) 2012 Tiny Plays for Ireland by 25 writers Silent by Pat Kinevane (revival) The Great Goat Bubble by Julian Gough The Wheelchair on My Face by Sonya Kelly Forgotten by Pat Kinevane (revival) 2011