Details
Mon, Jun 16 - Wed, Jun 18, 2025
Contact
Box Office
888-616-0274
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Phone hours:
10am-6pm, Monday-Friday
In person:
Opens 60 minutes before the performance on show days
Overview
Scéal Nua (New Story), founded by Sarah Street in collaboration with Origin Theatre Company and Irish Arts Center, is a community of playwrights within the Irish diaspora that meets weekly to develop and share new work. Our inaugural Scéal Nua New Play Festival will showcase full-length play readings and excerpts from seven up-and-coming members of this year’s cohort: Molly Babos, Barbara Cassidy, Don Creedon, Leo McGann, Nicola Murphy, Colm Summers, and Ciara Van Buren. Join us!
MONDAY, JUNE 16 // 6PM
MARIA
By Nicola Murphy
(approx. 20 mins)
Maria follows a group of young girls in their final year of secondary school as they navigate relationships, drinking, friendships and an unexpected surprise.
THE EDIT
By Molly Babos
(approx. 75 mins)
Ivy, a wayward recent college graduate, gets more than she bargained for when she strikes up an unlikely friendship with the professor whose child she babysits.
MONDAY, JUNE 16 // 8:15PM
FALLS
By Colm Summers
(approx. 80 mins)
A coming-of-age comedy about Parkinson’s disease, queerness and caregiving.
TUESDAY, JUNE 17 // 7PM
THEIR OWN THING
By Ciara Van Buren
(approx. 20 mins)
A young woman with Down syndrome spends her day in a program for adults with disabilities, making plans and counting down the seconds until her life begins.
COLLARED
By Don Creedon
(approx. 65 mins)
A woman with a colorful past visits her ex-boyfriend, now a priest, to confess all her sins. But she’s got more than salvation on her mind.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18 // 3PM
A QUESTION OF LOVELINESS
By Barbara Cassidy
(approx. 75 mins)
Sometime in the near future, something terrible has happened...
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18 // 7PM
OFF THE BOOKS
By Leo McGann
(approx. 1 hour 50mins)
When Padraig, an Irish bartender in New York, encounters corruption, he’s faced with a decision: break the rules to secure his future or lose everything.
Every ticket purchased goes towards festival costs and platforming the playwrights' work. Thank you!