SIGNATORIES (2016).  This play is composed of eight monologues (by myself, Thomas Kilroy, Frank McGuinness, Marina Carr, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Hugo Hamilton, Rachel Fehily and Joseph O'Connor) about the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916.  My monologue is in the voice of Nurse Elizabeth O'Farrell, who delivered the surrender.

Cast (my monologue only): one woman.

Watch the trailer here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRt1XwEtnlc

 

PUBLICATION

Signatories (Dublin: UCD Press, 2016), http://www.ucdpress.ie/display.asp?isbn=9781910820100&

PRODUCTIONS

Signatories, directed by Patrick Mason, premiered in various Dublin locations in April/May 2016, and returned to the Olympia Theatre in October 2016.

REVIEWS

'An ambitious and significant project... melded into a theatrical whole, confidently and movingly' - Irish Times

'Magical.' - Irish Independent http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/theatre-arts/review-emotional-stories-neatly-rendered-34658772.html

'A perfection and a privilege - theatre, not history' - Sunday Independent

'A defining piece of theatre... Donoghue... tells a wonderfully nuanced tale of an ordinary woman caught up in extraordinary events.' - Irish Examiner 

'Donoghue's monologue... is the most crystal of the collection.' - Broadway World http://www.broadwayworld.com/ireland/article/BWW-Review-SIGNATORIES-Kilmainham-Gaol-Apr-2016-20160425#