Something like this consideration is the reason Fishamble initiated A Play for Ireland, a two-year project timed to coincide with the company’s 30th anniversary, in 2018. “But in the back of our minds we were thinking, we never got the big play,” says Culleton. That has had some consequences for Fishamble, which trades as “The New Play Company”, and receives about 250 unsolicited scripts a year. “We’re not the National Theatre,” Culleton and Kostick frequently say on the subject of an independent company’s limitations. A Play for Ireland, however, is ultimately a play for Fishamble: it is the company that decides what, in this case, is in the national interest.

Source: The Irish Times April 02, 2019 03:56 UTC