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 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 [...]
[Courtesy Derry News, May 5th 2005]
By Alan Healy
A Derry play which broke all box office records during its debut run at the Playhouse returns to the city later this month for a highly anticipated run at the Millennium Forum, where writer, director, producer and yes, star Irene Melaugh hopes her work will see similar success.
The [...]
[Courtesy Derry News, 14th Nov 2003]
IRENE MELAUGH’S new play “Me Da’s Suit” broke all opening night records at Derry’s Playhouse when it premiered on Wednesday night.
Just before the cast took to the stage for the opening of the play, two additional rows of seating had to be installed to accommodate the crowds.
Despite this more than [...]
[Courtesy Derry Journal, Tuesday 2nd December, 2003]
A scene from “Me Da’s Suit” which has opened to rave reviews in the Derry Playhouse.
‘Me Da’s Suit’ opened to ‘house full’ notices in Derry’s Playhouse on November 12th and closed each of its four evening run there with standing ovations. So positive has been the word on the [...]
[Courtesy Millennium Forum Programme of Events, May-August 2005]
Me Da’s Suit, written by Irene Melaugh
Thursday 19th – Sat 21st May
“It’s funny, damn funny with a humour not for the faint hearted.” – Derry Journal
This is Ireland, pre ‘Credit Union’ days. A time when the pawn shop was the only place ordinary people could get a ‘len’ to [...]
[Courtesy Derry Journal, Tuesday 2nd December, 2003]
THE PLAYHOUSE, Daredevil Theatre Group
Me Da’s Suit
The smash hit comedy returns by popular demand! Set in Derry in the early 70’s Me Da’s Suit is the story of the McLaughlins – their’ domestic ‘blitz’, debt, pawn shops and what happens when Tommy Barr’s pawn is blown up.