The New Theatre's New Writing Week returns in 2027 with five new plays presented as readings by their writers in the Fiona Hurley Auditorium in Temple Bar, Dublin: The Loss of You by Colm Maher on Tuesday 5 January, The Bad One by Aisling Flynn and The Only Car With Wings by Cáit Moloney on Thursday 28 January, The Administered Death of Mister Yermen Spenstick by Pádraig O’Connor on Wednesday 3 February and Bury The Wren by Rachel Mae Brady on Thursday 4 February. Every reading starts at 7.30pm (doors 7pm), admission is free with no booking fee, and places are booked on TakeYourSeats.ie.
Seating at The New Theatre is unreserved, so the venue suggests arriving at least 20 minutes before the start. Digital tickets can be scanned from your phone and printed tickets are welcome too; the theatre is wheelchair accessible and can take a single wheelchair at the rear of the auditorium – contact the venue ahead if you need it. Food and drink are not permitted in the auditorium. This guide lists all five readings in date order.
New Writing Week 2027 – free, booking required
The Loss of You by Colm Maher
The New Theatre, 43 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 · Tuesday 5 January 2027 · 7.30pm (doors 7pm) · Free, booking required · Unreserved seating
Two people meet, the attraction is instant, and both are married. They begin an affair with one rule – never talk about their personal lives – but as it deepens, so do their suspicions of each other, and neither can give the other up even once it turns dangerous.
Read our full preview: The Loss of You by Colm Maher at The New Theatre, Dublin – 5 January 2027
The Bad One by Aisling Flynn
The New Theatre, 43 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 · Thursday 28 January 2027 · 7.30pm (doors 7pm) · Free, booking required · Unreserved seating
A black supernatural comedy-drama that unfolds over an increasingly unhinged dinner party. Adrian is waiting on the call confirming his promotion to school principal, but the phone brings only strange voices and relics from the past; his estranged sister Chloe, who he believes has supernatural powers, arrives to a cold welcome, and as the night goes on comedy twists into dread.
Read our full preview: The Bad One by Aisling Flynn at The New Theatre, Dublin – 28 January 2027
The Only Car With Wings by Cáit Moloney
The New Theatre, 43 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 · Thursday 28 January 2027 · 7.30pm (doors 7pm) · Free, booking required · Unreserved seating
An exploration of fallible memory, its ever-changing presence between siblings, and the collective sin that bleeds from grief. Non-linear and, in the writer's words, resembling drunken recall – and also a comedy, of sorts.
The Administered Death of Mister Yermen Spenstick by Pádraig O'Connor
The New Theatre, 43 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 · Wednesday 3 February 2027 · 7.30pm (doors 7pm) · Free, booking required · Unreserved seating
An allegorical drama set in a warped hospital where two friends are held against their will. It asks how fear, bureaucracy and language erode freedom under the guise of care – the cost of safety, the seduction of compliance, and the quiet violence of systems that insist they know best.
Bury The Wren by Rachel Mae Brady
The New Theatre, 43 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 · Thursday 4 February 2027 · 7.30pm (doors 7pm) · Free, booking required · Unreserved seating
Ana, an epigeneticist studying at Oxford, returns to Dublin for the anniversary of her mother's death. When her English fiancé arrives unannounced, time fractures, past visions and possible futures collide, and Ana must decide whether to break the pattern of familial silence or inherit a life that isn't hers.
Planning your visit
All five readings start at 7.30pm in the Fiona Hurley Auditorium. The two on Thursday 28 January – The Bad One and The Only Car With Wings – are listed separately on TakeYourSeats.ie and each needs its own booking. The New Theatre is at 43 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 (D02 XH96).
Browse everything on at The New Theatre and book at takeyourseats.ie/readme.
