Irish Playwright
[Courtesy (unknown), September 18th 2005]
A large crowd gathered at the St. Joseph’s Parish Hall on Thursday evening for the performance of ‘Respect Works Both Ways’.
The play was a collaborative effort between the ‘Off the Streets’ initiative and the Galliagh Women’s Group. The drama was the result of discussions and workshops between young and old people. [...]
[Courtesy Derry Journal, May 11th 2007]
Irene Melaugh’s new play, ‘Flick’, will premiere at The Millennium Forum on Wednesday, May 23 and run until Saturday the 26 (2007). This is the third play from the pen of the Derry playwright, and like her first two it delves into the lives of ordinary people who find themselves [...]
[Courtesy Derry News, 14th March 2004]
By Joanne McCool
With a team like Carmel McCafferty and Irene Melaugh, you can hardly go far wrong, as their previous production of Me Da’s Suit readily proved.
But I was still pleasantly surprised at just how enjoyable the duo’s latest project was when I sat in on the premiere of the [...]
[Courtesy Derry Journal, 19th March, 2004]
Another success for Derry playwright
BEFORE NOVEMBER 2003 Irene Melaugh never had a play of her own staged locally. It was only earlier that year that she took the chance and presented her first full length script to the Playhouse for consideration.
As Derry audiences know, that play, ‘Me Da’s Suit’, was a [...]
[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 [...]