Drama On One

RTÉ Drama on One

RTÉ Radio Drama's audio theatre department has for decades proudly brought audiences the very best dramatic writing and performances for radio from Ireland. Listen every Sunday night at 8pm at RTÉ Radio 1, visit rte.ie/dramaonone for more.

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Yesterday · 46 min
Mr Sun by Gillian Grattan
Marie, a single mother in the dormitory suburbs, hides her unhappiness behind harsh humour; but the tedious, elderly neighbours she dismisses turn out to be hiding from harm themselves in their own shuttered bungalow. Kathy Rose O'Brien played Marie Pat Laffan ... Jim Áine Ní Mhuirí was Mavis and Ellie Sullivan made her début as little Laura. Sound supervision was by Richard McCullough Mr Sun by Gillian Grattan was produced by Aidan Mathews. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
August 21 · 50 min
Charolais by Noni Stapleton
Charolais a surreal comedy about love, longing and one woman’s intense rivalry with a Charolais heifer. This is a muddy place of simmering desire minced with a loneliness that cuts to the bone. Noni Stapleton who wrote the piece, plays both the protagonist Siobhan and her love rival the cow. Siobhan is a woman who is very alone in the world. She wants to change that but the way she goes about doing so is off beat to say the least! She is looking for love and very determined but there are obstacles to her achieving that sense of belonging she craves. One of which happens to be a terribly beautiful Charolais Heifer, who appears to be vying for the affections of Siobhan’s fella. There are bumps in the road including a pass remarkable mother in law played by Bairbre Ní Chaoimh and a less than committed lover in the form of Jimmy, a farmer played by Enda Oates. Siobhan's method of getting rid of any perceived threat to her idea of happy families is very unusual. There is plenty of room for dark humour, and a little gothic horror here. Sound Supervision was by Damien Chennells Directed by Gorretti Slavin See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
August 21 · 54 min
Islands - with Chris Watson & Luke Clancy
From Ross Island to Galapagos to the possibly mythical isle of HyBrasil, world renowned sound recordist Chris Watson teams up with Writer/Presenter Luke Clancy, Composer Irene Buckley and Actor Kathy Rose O'Brien to journey across an atlas of remote islands. Islands fuses documentary and drama, and a bit of pretending, to make a journey not usually possible - especially these days - as Chris and Luke imagine stepping across frozen lava at Ross island, Antarctica; taking in the rarefied atmosphere of the Alcedo volcano on the Galapagos islands and listening to an incredible symphony of Bearded Seals under the ice at Svalbard. The programme draws on live performances by the team at Skibbereen Arts Festival (2019) and at the International Features Conference hosted by RTÉ Documentary On One (2019). The programme merges chronicles of island life by Luke, with Chris’s stunning archive of natural history, accompanied by a haunting soundtrack created by Composer Irene Buckley, while actor Kathy Rose O'Brien navigates our journey. Writer: Luke Clancy Sound Recording and Sound Design: Chris Watson Narration: Luke Clancy and Chris Watson Composer: Irene Buckley Actor: Kathy Rose O’Brien Sound Supervision: Ruth Kennington Producer: Kevin Brew Series Producer: Kevin Reynolds With special thanks to Declan McCarthy, Brendan McCarthy, Pat Collins, Sharon Whooley and Tadhg O'Sullivan. Islands was funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television Licence Fee. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
August 9 · 47 min
From the River of Ghosts by Roger Gregg
an intimate love letter commemorating the lives of a working family pursuing their dreams over several generations in America’s rust belt. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
August 2 · 50 min
No Love Lost by Dylan Tighe
No Love Lost by Dylan Tighe, explores anti-Traveller racism through the prism of a love story between a young Traveller man and an older woman. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
July 24 · 51 min
Three Our Fathers by Karl O'Neill
In a sinister triptych that mimics a hall of mirrors, Karl O'Neill’s three masculine monologues draw parallel portraits – a suitor, a stalker, a spouse – of concave Man obsessed with the opposite sex. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
July 17 · 38 min
Hurl by Katie Honan
Hurl by Katie Honan is a hurling love story set in Waterford. Part Marty Morrissey, part Bridget Jones, Janet Walsh (a complete hurling novice) journeys into the world of Ireland's beloved national sport in search for belonging. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
July 17 · 38 min
Hurl by Katie Honan
Hurl by Katie Honan is a hurling love story set in Waterford. Part Marty Morrissey, part Bridget Jones, Janet Walsh (a complete hurling novice) journeys into the world of Ireland's beloved national sport in search for belonging. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
July 11 · 46 min
Eureka Dunes by Philip Davison
With Nick Dunning as Magnus Sparling and Barry McGovern as the paterfamilas Edwin. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
July 11 · 46 min
Eureka Dunes by Philip Davison
With Nick Dunning as Magnus Sparling and Barry McGovern as the paterfamilas Edwin. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
July 2 · 41 min
Wee Black Bees by Little John Nee
blues musician, Sparkplug grapples with heartbreak, the welfare of bee populations and the writings of the physicist Erwin Schrödinger. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
July 2 · 41 min
Wee Black Bees by Little John Nee
blues musician, Sparkplug grapples with heartbreak, the welfare of bee populations and the writings of the physicist Erwin Schrödinger. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
June 26 · 41 min
Digging For Fire by Daragh Dukes, Eoin O'Kelly & Kevin Brew
Composer Daragh Dukes and Radio Producers Eoin O Kelly and Kevin Brew explore the nature of youthful creativity as they remember their participation in the Limerick band scene of the early 1990s. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
June 26 · 41 min
Digging For Fire by Daragh Dukes, Eoin O'Kelly & Kevin Brew
Composer Daragh Dukes and Radio Producers Eoin O Kelly and Kevin Brew explore the nature of youthful creativity as they remember their participation in the Limerick band scene of the early 1990s. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
June 18 · 45 min
Marconi & Me by Zoë Comyns
A podcast producer finds a set of code books. They are the Marconi International Code books. They contain 500 pages of 5-letter codes and their translations. The main character starts to read the codes obsessively and twist them into her own life story. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
June 12 · 51 min
James Joyce In Zürich by Kevin Reynolds
To commemorate the 65th anniversary of James Joyce's death in Zürich on Jan 13th 1941, Ursula Zeller, Ruth Freiner and Fritz Senn from The James Joyce Foundation shared their stories with Kevin Reynolds See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
June 5 · 42 min
Tubes by Gary Mitchell
Tubes written by renowned Belfast playwright Gary Mitchell In this black comedy we meet Titch a modern young Protestant, who is keen to portray his own community and the twelfth of July in a more positive light. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 28 · 28 min
A Piece of Monologue by Samuel Beckett
A Piece of Monologue, performed by Barry McGovern, directed by Daniel Reardon and introduced by Gerry Dukes, whose stage adaptation, with Barry McGovern, of Beckett's post-war trilogy of novels as I’ll Go On has played around the world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 22 · 51 min
The Old Tune by Samuel Beckett
The Old Tune is Beckett's free adaptation of La Manivelle/The Crank, a radio play by French writer, Robert Pinget. The Beckett Season is made possible by the kind permission of the Estate of Samuel Beckett. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 14 · 51 min
Beckett on Bowman
A special programme curated from a brace of Bowman Sunday Eight Thirty programmes made in 2006 celebrating the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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