Landmark Productions ROSS O’CARROLL-KELLY Postcards from the Ledge Broadcast live from Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray Saturday 15 May, 2021 1 On-Demand 16–23 May, 2021 Contents Landmark Productions 4 The Hook, Lyon and Sinker Guide to Estate Agent Jargon 6 Paul Howard 8 Ross O’Carroll-Kelly 10 Rory Nolan 11 The Ledge Writ Lorge 12 Jimmy Fay 14 Grace Smart 15 POST-SHOW TALK Credits 16 with Paul Howard and Rory Nolan Paul Keogan 18 Denis Clohessy 19 in conversation with Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: The Stage Years 20 Irish Times columnist Róisín Ingle Thanks 22 As part of Live Broadcast and available on-demand Join The Conversation 24 BOOK WITH YOUR SHOW TICKET OR BUY SEPARATELY HERE 2 3 Landmark Productions Producer Landmark Productions ROSS O’CARROLL-KELLY Postcards from the Landmark Productions is one of Ireland’s It produces a wide range of ambitious leading theatre producers. It produces work – plays, operas and musicals – in wide-ranging work in Ireland, and shares theatres ranging from the 66-seat New that work with international audiences. Theatre to the 1,254-seat Olympia. It Ledge co-produces regularly with a number of Earlier this year it launched Landmark partners, including, most significantly, Live, a new online streaming platform Galway International Arts Festival and Irish by Paul Howard to enable the company to bring the National Opera. Its 18 world premieres thrill of live theatre to audiences around include new plays by major Irish writers Director the world. Postcards from the Ledge is such as Enda Walsh and Mark O’Rowe, the third production to be streamed to featuring a roll-call of Ireland’s finest Jimmy Fay date. In June, Landmark will present the actors, directors and designers. world premiere of a new play by Deirdre Set and Costume Designer Kinahan, The Saviour, broadcast live from Numerous awards include the Judges’ Grace Smart the Everyman Theatre. Louise Lowe will Special Award at The Irish Times Irish direct Marie Mullen and Brian Gleeson in Theatre Awards, in recognition of Lighting Designer this blistering new play, presented as part ‘sustained excellence in programming and of Cork Midsummer Festival 2021. for developing imaginative partnerships Paul Keogan to bring quality theatre to the Irish and Led by Anne Clarke since the company’s international stage’; and a Special Tribute Sound Designer foundation in 2003, Landmark’s Award for Anne Clarke, for her work as Denis Clohessy productions have received multiple ‘a producer of world-class theatre in the awards and have been seen in leading independent sector in Ireland’. theatres in London, New York and beyond. www.landmarkproductions.ie Broadcast live from Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray Saturday 15 May, 2021 JOIN THE LANDMARK MAILING LIST HERE On-Demand 16–23 May, 2021 to find out about future Ross O’Carroll-Kelly shows and other upcoming events. 4 5 The Hook, Lyon and Sinker Original character, retains much South Killiney: of its: We couldn’t get all of the Definitely Ballybrack. blood out of the living room carpet. Guide to Estate Agent Jargon Stunning: Okayish. Period: Old. Subject to planning permission: Architect-designed interior: First-time buyer, would ideally Plumbed for a washing There is no planning permission. A madman laid it out. suit: It’s fine if it’s all you can afford. machine: There is no washing machine. Sylvan setting: Bijou: Foxrock: Probably Cornelscourt. There are trees nearby. There isn’t room for two people to Renewed buyer interest, an area break wind at the same time. Fully fitted: The previous owners of: People are so desperate to get on Style: Used as a suffix by estate left the bath, the toilet and the sink. the property ladder that they’ll even agents. This also means “not” - as in Blank canvas: Derelict. consider moving here. an “Adam-style fireplace” is not an Galley kitchen: Half a kitchen. Adam fireplace. Carpets and curtains included: Restaurant quarter, close to a You’ll have to throw them out Good-neighbourhood-adjacent: lively: Opposite a chipper. Tasteful: It’s a subjective thing. yourself. It’s in a bad neighbourhood. Rustic: Ramshackle. Terenure: Cash buyer, would ideally suit: Glenageary: Probably Sallynoggin. Templeogue. No question. No bank would lend you the money Sea views: to buy it. Highly motivated seller: If you stand on the toilet bowl in the Transport links, conveniently Can’t wait to be rid of it. upstairs bathroom and crane your close to all: The people on the Characterful: The toilet is outside. neck to the left, you can sometimes upper deck of the bus can see in your Imaginative use of space: see water, provided the tide is in. window. Charming: Ugly. Even smaller than it appears. Secluded: Up-and-coming: Colourful history, a house with a: Investor, represents an ideal No one will hear you scream. Many of the local criminals are Drugs were sold from here. opportunity for an: considered Ones to Watch in the No one who buys it would ever Self contained: future. Commutable distance from dream of living in it. Includes four walls and a ceiling. Dublin: It’s in the Midlands. Vibrant: Neighbours from hell. Low-maintenance garden: Shabby-chic: It was last decorated Compact: You’ll have to sit in the A paved over garden, possibly when the Beatles were all still mates. next room to watch TV. concealing a dead body. Situated close to all the Cosy: You’ll have to sit outside to Mock-Tudor: Not Tudor. conveniences of modern living: watch TV. Opposite a convenience store that Open-plan: It’s one room. sells drink. DIY enthusiast, scope for Smart: Empty. improvement, especially for On-street parking: the: Structurally unsound. Requires There is no parking. South-facing rear-garden: plumbing and rewiring. You’d better enjoy the sight of your Opportunity: Headache. neighbours semi-naked. 6 7 Paul Howard Author Paul Howard is a multi-award-winning In 2012, he wrote the book and lyrics among Irish athletes and an interview journalist, author, playwright and for Anglo: The Musical, a puppet-based, with the disgraced former sprinter, Ben comedy writer. He has been described comedy musical about the collapse Johnson. He was also shortlisted for the by The Irish Times as ‘Ireland’s pre- of Ireland’s banks. In 2018, his second award in 2002, 2003, and 2004. eminent satirist’ and by the Irish musical comedy, Copperface Jacks: In October 2016, his biography of Tara Independent as ‘one of the world’s The Musical was the sell-out hit of the Browne, the Irish-born Guinness heir funniest writers’. He is best known as the summer. His satirical football memoir, immortalised in The Beatles’ song ‘A Day creator of Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, a fictional Triggs – The Autobiography of Roy Keane’s in the Life’, was published by Picador. rugby jock whose exploits have been Dog, was a number one bestseller in It won the Best Non-Fiction award at the subject of twenty novels, which 2012 and was shortlisted for an Irish the 2016 Irish Book Awards and has have collectively sold more than 1.5 Book Award. been optioned for a movie by a major million copies in Ireland alone. production studio. He has written comedy for radio and He is also the author of three previous television and was one of the main Ross O’Carroll-Kelly plays, The Last sketch writers on the twice IFTA- Days of the Celtic Tiger in 2007, Between nominated satirical TV show Irish Foxrock and a Hard Place in 2010 and Pictorial Weekly, in which he appeared Breaking Dad in 2014, all of which as David Drumm and Peter Darragh enjoyed long sell-out runs and revivals Quinn. He has also written sketches for in Dublin, Cork and Limerick. The Mario Rosenstock Show. In 2014, he was commissioned by US network E! He is a four-time Irish Book Award to write a pilot for a sitcom he devised winner, collecting the Best Popular called The Cliterati. Fiction prize for Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade in 2007, The Oh My God Before he embarked on a career as a Delusion in 2010, and Downturn Abbey comedy writer, he was one of Ireland’s in 2013. most respected sports journalists, working mostly for The Sunday Tribune, In 2013, he was named Columnist of the covering World Cups, Olympic Games Year for his weekly satirical column in and numerous other major sporting The Irish Times. events. He was named Irish Sports Journalist of the Year in 1998 for an investigation into eating disorders 8 9 Ross O’Carroll-Kelly Rory Nolan Ross O’Carroll-Kelly is the great Nearly A Whistle in the Dark and Famine as part of Man of Irish rugby – and he doesn’t mean DruidMurphy, and The Colleen Bawn for the that in a big-headed way. company. After leading Castlerock College to victory Rory graduated from the Gaiety School of in the Leinster Schools Senior Cup final Acting in 2003, making his post-graduate of 1999, great things were predicted for debut in The Drunkard, a new adaptation the man generally regarded as the most by Tom Murphy (B*spoke Theatre Company handsome out-half of his generation. and GIAF). Since then Rory has appeared in However, he failed to deliver on his Chekhov’s First Play (Dead Centre); Northern promise for a number of reasons, none of Star, The Importance of Being Earnest which he wants to get into now – mainly opposite Stockard Channing, The Critic, Is because he wouldn’t give Warren Gatland This About Sex, Don Carlos, Attempts on Her the satisfaction of mentioning his name.