Henrik Ibsen

Thomas Kilroy

In this newly revised, freely adapted version of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts, Kilroy bravely examines ways in which the sins of a father are visited on children in a family frightened by ghosts. Forces of the past and present collide in this biopsy of the interactions between private and public lives, between Church and secular values, and of the characters' prospects as they try to make up for lost time where there's no space left for the truth.

After Ibsen

Ghosts

Published to coincide with the Abbey Theatre, Dublin's, world premiere, a searing indictment of the extortionate price but on childhood by church and state.

After Wedekind's Spring Awakening

Christ Deliver Us

A free adaptation of the Chekhov classic now set in the West of Ireland in the late nineteenth century.

After Chekhov

The Seagull

Kilroy's play tells the story of Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, struggling to reclaim his own identity after being linked to Wilde and the trials that led to his imprisonment.

My Scandalous Life

A luminous drama about Wilde's wife's struggle for redemption. The play traces the hidden life of Constance Wilde. Her story explores the gender and sexuality of people who "belonged to the future," and untangles the shifting lines in the complex relationship between her, her husband, and his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. Through a drama of magical transformations and mysterious, masked figures, set against the back-ground of one of the most notorious cases in British legal history, Kilroy divines the cost of the characters' conduct, Oscar's plea for salvation in Constance's eyes, and her heroic exertion to reclaim a state of grace.

The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde

Kilroy shows, as through a prism, episodes in the lives of Brendan Bracken and William Joyce, including their relationship with Ireland and their conceptions of Britain and Germany in World War II. How these antagonists, given a choice by history, distorted their personalities to re-invent themselves becomes a spellbinding examination of the riddle of nationalism.

Thomas Kilroy

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