Flying Turtle Productions

at the Abbey School of Drama, Dublin

PERFORMANCE: “When It Rains…” Monday March 9th & Tuesday 10th 2026

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Come see our work in the world premiere performances of WHEN IT RAINS…!
An orginal devised performance with 7 actors playing 14 characters exploring 24 hours of Dublin life in a quirky, funny and moving story.

This experienced level Theatre Performance Creation course brings together seven different actors in this collaboratively created production. Using the creative writing skills and character-based ideas from the actors, we weave together a series of situations taking place over one day. Inspired by the saying, “when it rains… it pours”, these quirky, colourful and moving characters will give you a glimpse into how they respond when plans fall apart.

Performances:

7:30pm Monday, March 9th, 2026

7:30pm Tuesday, March 10th, 2026

Running time approximately 90 minutes.
At the Pearce Centre Theatre, 27 Pearse Street, D02K037

TICKET LINK HERE: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/when-it-rains-tickets-1984292006808?aff=oddtdtcreator

FEATURED ACTORS:

Emanuael Choppin, Roberta D’Antone, Annie Tobin Dunne, Tanja Karita,

Ruchi Hemani Kashiwala, Michael Keegan and Eithne Ní Dhubhghaill

Directed by Kathleen Warner Yeates

Lighting Design and Op by Cathy O’ Carroll

Front of House and Box Office by Ells Mooney

Performance of Adult Scene Study: Scenes and Improv Dec 10th!

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Join us for a dynamic evening of selected scenes from plays as well as a series of improvisation sequences directed by Kathleen Warner Yeates. This is the culmination of our 10-week Adult Scene Study beginner level performance course, which combines script work as well as spontaneous collaboration in character. It will be an evening of powerful performances and loads of laughs as well!

LOCATION: Pearse Centre Theatre, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin D02K037

FEATURED PERFORMERS:Roberta D’Antone, Gillian Duffy, Ruchi Hemani Kashiwala and Annie Tobin-Dunne. Special thanks to Sinead Moore! 

DIRECTOR/FACILITATOR: Kathleen Warner Yeates
LIGHTING: Cathy O’Carroll
BOX OFFICE/FRONT OF HOUSE: Ells Mooney

Eventbrite direct TICKET booking link:  (€10 per ticket online purchase, can pay cash at the door, but can’t guarantee a seat )

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/performance-of-adult-scene-study-scenes-and-improvisation-december-10th-tickets-1976618625518?aff=oddtdtcreator

See more about our upcoming performance courses in 2026!

Adult Scene Study  (beginner/returner)

Theatre Performance Creation  (returner/experienced)

Improv Performance  (returner/experienced)

See our MANY TESTIMONIALS!!

CONNECTED Performances March 10th & 11th, 2025

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Come see our work in the world premiere performances of CONNECTED!

This experienced level Theatre Performance Creation course brings together eight different actors in this collaboratively created production. Using the creative writing skills and character based ideas of the actors, we then weave together a series of situations taking place over one day. These quirky, colourful and moving characters will give you a glimpse into the often random interconnectedness of people.

Performances:
7:30pm Monday, March 10th, 2025
7:30pm Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
Running time approximately 80 minutes.
At the Pearse Centre Theatre, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin D02K037

EVENT BRITE TICKET LINK: HERE

FEATURED ACTORS:

Vince Breheny
Denis Clarke
Alex Kelly
Orla Gildea
Tara McCarthy
Alexandra Monedero
Fiona Mulhern
Dorothea Schulz

Directed by Kathleen Warner Yeates
Lighting Design and Op by Cathy O’ Carroll
Front of House and Box Office by Ells Mooney

EMERGENCE an Original Devised Theatre Performance Nov 13th & 14th

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Join us for a moving and humorous performance, collaboratively created to explore the challenges of eight interlinked and struggling characters in Dublin.

What forces oppress us, internal or external, and how to we emerge through all of the challenges? Developed in our Theatre Performance Creation course, we observed various random humans to begin the exploration of what would become our story. Through improvisation, collaboration, writing and singing, we created a fully staged original peformance with music. Each actor performs two physically contrasting characters in this funny and poerful play about what we do to survive.

Running time approximately 70 minutes.   Tickets €10 plus handling

FEATURED PERFORMERS:  Kevin Maher, Greg Marks, Emily McAlinden and James Ronan.
Conceived and directed by Kathleen Warner Yeates
Lights by Cathy O’Carroll

TICKET LINK TO PURCHASE: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/emergence-tickets-742222977907?aff=oddtdtcreator

YOUTUBE PREVIEW INTERVIEWS: 

Actors  Kevin Maher, Greg Marks, Emily McAlinden and James Ronan.

Showdown at Hickory Gulch Sept 23rd & 24th 2022! Culture Night and Saturday Night

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On Friday Sept 23rd Culture Night 2022! (SORRY CULTURE NIGHT BOOKED OUT)
+ SATURDAY OPTION   Saturday Sept 24th – SOME LIMITED SPACE FOR SATURDAY PERFORMANCES AT A SMALL TICKET PRICE. SEE LINK BELOW.

We hope you will join us for our CULTURE NIGHT event!   Back after a sold out production last year.
Our site-specific live 35-minute outdoor performance with music, will take you back to the world of the wild, wild west! Welcome to the world of cowboys and cattlerustlers, Sheriffs and Deputies, outlaws and ladies of ill repute. If you think it could all end in a gunfight, you can be darn tootin’ sure it will!

Please read full details below before booking.

LOCATION: OUTDOORS at Flying Turtle Productions, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin D02K037 in the Ireland Institute.

Building on our previous years of presenting genre styled performance (Culture Night Noir, Midsummer Night’s Dream Escapes!), we now celebrate the classic westerns. The audience will pass briefly through a building corrider then will view the performance from an outside atrium area which has an overhead shelter. Some limited seating will be available for those in need.  See you there, partner!

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED – SEE BOOKING LINK BELOW. There will be some limited folding chairs available for those unable to stand for the length of the performance.   This is a “MOST WEATHER” performance, so we will go on if there is mild rain. Umbrellas available for temporary use!

CULTURE NIGHT  FREE TICKETED EVENT FRIDAY Evening September 23rd– (SORRY BOOKED OUT )  Performance times for this FREE Culture Night event performing promptly at 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:30, 9:30:

WE HAVE A BONUS PERFORMANCE night on SATURDAY Evening, September 24th – RESERVING NOW for a small ticket price of €10 per person (plus transaction charge) and must be purchased in advance through the link. This can be purchased NOW and selling fast. Performances start promptly at 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:30, 9:30. All proceeds go to the performers and creative team.

CLICK THE TICKET LINK BELOW, SELECT A PERFORMANCE DATE AND TIME, AND RESERVE FOR YOUR FREE (Friday) OR PAID (Saturday) PERFORMANCES TIMES:  

BOOKING LINK :
Eventbrite Showdown At Hickory Gulch

NOTE: Performances will begin promptly as scheduled and this event is fills quickly. A place will be held for you in the performance time that you select, but YOU MUST BE IN LINE IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING 5 MINUTES BEFORE PERFORMANCE OR YOUR PLACE WILL BE GIVEN AWAY TO THE WAIT LIST PEOPLE. NO LATE ADMISSION.

IF you are experiencing any symptoms of COVID-19 or have had contact with anyone known to have COVID-19 please do not attend this performance. A reminder of this will be sent prior to the performance.

Ability to climb 5 steps is required, and it is recommended for adults or young people age 10 and older. There will be some limited folding chairs available for those who cannot stand for the performance length of approximately 35 minutes.

SEE OUR YOUTUBE TESTIMONIALS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS FILM NOIR PERFORMANCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bOjm9M0ZEM&t=6s

FEATURED CHARACTERS AND ACTORS:  

SHERIFF JOSEPH OBADIAH HICKMAN (Michael Keegan)

JIMMY-JOE JOHNSON (Simon Cunningham)

REVEREN SAMUEL CARTER (Alan Buckley)

DOC CARAWAY (Stephen Kelly)

JESSIE STEED (Ella Mooney)

RUBY SADLER (Julie Dean)

LILY MARTIN (Kate O’Donnell)

ROSEBUD EUSTICE CARTWRIGHT (Sophia Cadogan)

MISS MARY JONES (Phoebe Moore)

JANE WILDER (Louise O’Toole)

DAVY SAWYER (Richard Sweetman)

WILD BILL MacGINLEY (Bill Paton)

TWO-GUN TOMMY AUSTIN (Philip Dillon)

JOHNNY LEVI (Simon Mombrun O’Neill)

DAISY DILLINGTON (Deirdre Grant)

Conceived and directed by Kathleen Warner Yeates.

SPECIAL THANKS TO THE IRELAND INSTITUTE.

@culturenightdublin @culturenight

Flying Turtle Productions provides part-time evening courses in Drama, Screenwriting and Public Speaking, as well as film and theatre production and corporate training. Please see more details on our website for full details at www.flyingturtleproductions.com.

For any additional inquireys contact info@flyingturtleproductions.com or 086 824 4826

#CultureNight #LOVECulture @CultureNight @CulturenightDub

Performing June 2022 – Our Actor Training and Adult Scene Study Courses!

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We are so excited to share the work from our performance courses performing this week at The New Theatre, Temple Bar!
Our Advanced Actor Training production will be showing contemporary scenes and an adaptation of Midsummer Night’s Dream!

Tues & Wed 7:00pm June 22 & 22, 2022
Performers Sam Coll, Tony Cosgrave, Lauren Hyde, Kieran McCague, Eva McCartney, Maggie Murphy, Richard Sweetman and Laura Whelan. Directed by Kathleen Warner Yeates
Then on Thursday June 23rd, 7:00pm, our Adult Scene Study class performs contemporary scenes and improvisation:
Sofia Sabbatini, Sinead Comerford, Linda Kane, Robert Heffernan, Roisín Laffan, Deirdre Thompson, Sarah Ratliff and Kelly O’Neill. As directed by the brilliant Ann Russell!
They will be fantastic evenings of theatre!

“They Dream” Our Original Devised Performance March 7th & 8th, 2022

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We hope that you will join us for our orginal devised theatre performance of “THEY DREAM” involving 5 actors playing 10 characters. Under the direction of Kathleen Warner Yeates, the performance is one of the productions created in the Advanced 6-Month Part-time Actor Training course with Flying Turtle Productions in 2022.

In this performance we will explore one day in the life of these varied and struggling characters as they pursue their hopes and dreams.

FEATURING: Sam Coll, Tony Cosgrave, Eva McCartney, Maggie Murphy and Joe Stalford.

Conceived and directed by Kathleen Warner Yeates

Lighting design and operation by Al Bellamy

Monday, March 7th 7:30pm

Tuesday, March 8th 7:30pm

Performance will have a running time approximately 70 minutes with no interval. Starts 7:30pm SHARP! SORRY NO LATE ENTRANCE DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE THEATRE BUILDING.

LOCATION: The Pearse Centre Theatre, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin D02K037.

ADMISSION:  €10
BOOKING HERE:  https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/they-dream-tickets-281983178277

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at 0868244826 or email info@flyingturtleproductions.com

CULTURE NIGHT 2021: Showdown at Hickory Gulch!

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COMPLETELY SOLD OUT FOR ALL 10 PERFORMANCES!
THANK YOU FOR COMING!

Was performed as a CULTURE NIGHT AND WEEKEND EVENT 2021…. Some production images below and on Facebook here:  Flying Turtle Productions

FEATURED ACTORS: Michael Keegan, Simon Cunningham, Alan Buckley, Ciarán ó Murchú, Ella Mooney, Julie Dean, Kate O’Donnell, Rachel Walshe, Phoebe Moore, Louise O’Toole, Richard Sweetman, Deirdre Grant, Bill Paton, Gordon Delap and Simon Mombrun O’Neill. 

Conceived and directed by Kathleen Warner Yeates.

        

Was performed 2021… old info…

On Friday Sept 17th (Booking Starts 10:00am Sept 15th!)
+ SATURDAY OPTION  Saturday Sept 18th (Paid event reserveNOW!)

We hope you will join us for our CULTURE NIGHT event!
Our site-specific live 40-minute outdoor performance will take you back to the world of the wild, wild west! Welcome to the world of cowboys and cattlerustlers, Sheriffs and Deputies, outlaws and ladies of ill repute. If you think it could all end in a gunfight, you can be darn tootin’ sure it will! Please read full details below before booking.

LOCATION: Outdoors at Flying Turtle Productions, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin D02K037 in the Ireland Institute.

Building on our previous years of presenting genre styled performance (Culture Night Noir, Midsummer Night’s Dream Escapes!), we now celebrate the classic westerns. The audience will pass briefly through a building corrider then will view the performance from an outside atrium area which has an overhead shelter.  See you there, partner!

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED and must be booked in “Pods” of 2 to 6 people who must be arriving together an audience group, with social distancing between pods. COVID-19 health and safety procedures will be in place including mask wearing, sanitizing and contact tracing via booking system. There will be some limited folding chairs available for those unable to stand for the length of the performance. 

This is a “MOST WEATHER” performance, so we will go on if there is mild rain.

BOOKING for CULTURE NIGHT  FREE TICKETED EVENT on FRIDAY Evening September 17th – Bookings will begin on Wednesday Sept 15th at 10:00am at this link or through our website. (IN PREVIOUS YEARS OUR EVENTS HAVE BOOKED OUT IN ONE HOUR! Additional seats may be released after pods are assigned.)  Performance timesfor this FREE Culture Night event performing promptly at 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:30, 9:30:

WE HAVE A BONUS PERFORMANCE night on SATURDAY Evening, September 18th for a small ticket price of €10 per person (plus transaction charge) and must be purchased in advance through the link. This can be purchased NOW and selling fast. Performances start promptly at 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:30, 9:30. All proceeds go to the performers and creative team.

CLICK THE TICKET LINK BELOW, SELECT A PERFORMANCE DATE AND TIME, AND RESERVE FOR YOUR FREE (Friday) OR PAID (Saturday) PERFORMANCES TIMES:  

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/167632414063

NOTE: Performances will begin promptly as scheduled and this event is fills quickly. A place will be held for you in the performance time that you select, but YOU MUST BE IN LINE IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING 5 MINUTES BEFORE PERFORMANCE OR YOUR PLACE WILL BE GIVEN AWAY TO THE WAIT LIST PEOPLE. NO LATE ADMISSION.

IF you are experiencing any symptoms of COVID-19 or have had contact with anyone known to have COVID-19 please do not attend this performance. A reminder of this will be sent prior to the performance.

Ability to climb 5 steps is required, and it is recommended for adults or young people age 10 and older. There will be some limited folding chairs available for those who cannot stand for the performance length of approximately 40 minutes.

SEE OUR YOUTUBE TESTIMONIALS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bOjm9M0ZEM&t=6s

FEATURED ACTORS: Michael Keegan, Simon Cunningham, Alan Buckley, Ciarán ó Murchú, Ella Mooney, Julie Dean, Kate O’Donnell, Rachel Walshe, Phoebe Moore, Louise O’Toole, Richard Sweetman, Deirdre Grant, Bill Paton, Gordon Delap and Simon Mombrun O’Neill. 

Conceived and directed by Kathleen Warner Yeates.

SPECIAL THANKS TO THE IRELAND INSTITUTE.

Flying Turtle Productions provides part-time evening courses in Drama, Screenwriting and Public Speaking, as well as film and theatre production and corporate training. Please see more details on our website for full details at www.flyingturtleproductions.com.

For any additional inquireys contact info@flyingturtleproductions.com or 086 824 4826

#CultureNight #LOVECulture @CultureNight @CulturenightDub

Culture Night Sept 18th 2020: Midsummer Night’s Dream Escapes!

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This year Culture Night is on Friday September 18th, and in the year of COVID-19 restrictions, we have been pushed to “evolve” to a different kind of event!

Watch our performance event online, a one-hour version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with eight actors. Previously filmed live in St Anne’s Park. See options for home activities below!  Viewable here on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8gzRG7nUiM&t=1s

Our advanced actor training course could not perform on stage due to COVID-19, so we re-imagined the performance. We escaped from the theatre to film the actors in the park, running through fields, over castle bridges and into the lush forest where fairy magic and madness takes over.  This edited version of Shakespeare’s classic focuses on the fairies and the mixed-up lovers.

Drama activities at home are suggested around the event for anyone at home who feels like getting  dressed in their Fairy Best and participating in their own gardens!

DOWLOAD the fairy home activities documents below. We strongly encourage you to share your discoveries with us as per the instructions!

Flying Turtle Fairy Activity Pack:   CultureNight2020FlyingTurtlesandFairies 

Flying Turtle Fairy Colour Page:   CultureNight2020FlyingTurtleFairyColorPage

VIDEO LINK TO WATCH Midsummer Night’s Dream Escapes on Youtube (will remain viewable any time):  

Genres: Literature / Performance / Theatre

Features: Family Friendly

No Booking Required. This video will remain viewable.

There are many options to engage in the arts throughout Ireland on Culture Night with more details here: https://culturenight.ie/

Performance of Creative Choices – March 9th & 10th, 2020

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“CREATIVE CHOICES” is an original devised theatre piece involving 8 actors playing over 16 characters. Under the direction of Kathleen Warner Yeates, the performance is one of the productions created in the Advanced 6-Month Part-time Actor Training course with Flying Turtle Productions (formerly the Abbey School of Drama)

In this performance we will explore 24 for hours in the lives of these characters as they make choices, takes chances and create their lives in an every changing world.

FEATURING: Gabriela de Anunciacao, Fiachra Corkery, Emmet Lindsay, Ciara McCollum, Phoebe Moore, Rory O’Connor, Carán ó Murchú, Jack Swift.

Performance will have a running time approximately 90 minutes with no interval. Starts 7:30pm
SHARP! SORRY NO LATE ENTRANCE DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE THEATRE BUILDING.

Monday, March 9th 7:30pm

Tuesday, March 10th 7:30pm

ADMISSION €10 purchased throught the Eventbrite link below or cash at the door prior to performance if seats are still available.
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/creative-choices-an-original-theatre-production-tickets-97983779121

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at 0868244826 or email info@flyingturtleproductions.com