Irish Playwright
[Extract courtesy of "Your Local Sunday", May 29th 2005]
I had no idea where the suit was until one of the characters came into the story wearing it.
“I ended up marrying the man who asked me for directions. We got married in the Long Tower Chapel and I moved to America with him. I didn’t stop [...]
[Courtesy Derry News, May 17th 2007]
Hot on the heels of two smash hits, local playwright Irene Melaugh brings her third drama based in a Derry hairdressers to the stage this weekend.
Flick brings together a hilarious cast of characters and like Me Da’s Suit and The Dumped Divorcee Support Group – it taps into a rich [...]
[Courtesy Derry Journal, 7th November, 2006]
DERRY PLAYWRIGHT Irene Melaugh is set to turn heads with her new play, ‘Fick’ a comedy set in a very Derry hairdressers.
Irene is hoping to bring ‘Flick’ to the stage of the Millennium Forum in May of next year – but she needs a cast of willing Derry actors to help her [...]
[Courtesy of UFORIA, University of Ulster Students' Union Magazine, March 2004]
When I was waiting in the Union on a Monday morning to meet Irene Melaugh I began to panic suddenly. I had been to see her play ‘Me Da’s suit’ a few weeks earlier in The Playhouse, a small theatre just inside the walls in [...]