Echoes from a Room
Summer Production 2026
6th - 11th July
An Nuadha Players are delighted to announce that our Summer Production for 2026 is Echoes from a Room written by Terry Nealon, directed by Síomha Glynn.
10 years on since Echoes from a Room was first performed by An Nuadha Players, we are thrilled to bring it back to the stage to mark its anniversary.
This play is based on Terry's experience of working as a Junior Manager in a gas lighter company in Dublin City Centre during the mid sixties. It is set during the Christmas/New Years period and tells the story of the group of women who worked under Terry in this factory. The women, from inner city Dublin, each had their own story to tell. The characters in this story are based on real people or an amalgamation of different women that Terry came across during his time working there. From within the four walls of the factory room comes the echoes of their conversations, their laughter, their arguments, their stories.
Come along and join us from 6th to 11th July 2026.
If you're interested in being involved in the show off-stage on our Front of House or Stage Crew teams, please read and complete the form at the link below to let us know your availability, and ensure you click "Submit". You will receive a copy of your response by email once you've registered.
Tickets will be on sale online only on 1st June.
A limited number of tickets will be available to purchase in person at the Picnic in the Park on 21st June.
Doors: 7pm
Show: 7:30pm
Tickets:
Adult - €15
Concession (Child/Student/OAP) - €12
*Note: A booking fee of €1 applies for each ticket*
BOOK EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT!
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If you have any accessibility requirements please email us at annuadhaplayers@gmail.com.
The Cast of Echoes from a Room
Bernie O’Connor - Kelly Gamble
Maura Munch - Patricia O’Malley
Elisabeth Belton - Rebecca Wright
Joan Smith - Alisha Shiels
Mary Matthews - Laura Brady Keevans
Floss Byrne - Ann Kelly
Phyllis Malone - Marianne Bradley
Connie McNamara - Patricia Hanlon
Jimmy Buckley - John McCormack
Hans Jürgen - Finbarr Coghlan
Tony Nolan Jnr. - Aidan O’Donohoe
Tony Nolan Snr. - John Bean
Theresa Carty - Calina Cunningham
Terry Nealon
Scriptwriter
Terry Nealon was born in Drimnagh, Dublin in 1946. He was involved in music and drama for most of his life. His love of drama was kindled by Finbarr Howard in The Bosco Boys Club in Drimnagh and he was a member of a variety of drama groups over the years, including membership of An Nuadha Players in Maynooth and Insight Theatre in Celbridge. Terry also played with several music groups including 'Renaissance - Music for sophisticates' (Ireland's most talented undiscovered boy band - Terry's own description!) and The Christy Driscoll Trio. He regularly played in the Embankment in Tallaght in its heyday.
'Echoes from a Room' was Terry's first full length play and reflects his experience as a supervisor in a city centre workplace in the mid-sixties - the scars of which he still bore at the time he wrote this play by his own account! The play was a labour of love and is a testament to a group of women who were very much the product of their time and place but who found their own way of overcoming the odds.
Show location: Maynooth Community College
Enter through the main doors to the school