Jimmy Keary – Playwright

The Butt Drama Circle’s production of my play ‘The Two Loves of Gabriel Foley’ concluded on Friday night last with a standing ovation. The final two nights were sell-out nights.
Feedback and audience reaction have been very positive.

I was delighted to hear today that The Butt Drama Circle is staging ‘The Two Loves of Gabriel Foley’ in The Balor Arts Centre in Ballybofey, Co. Donegal on August 24th, 25th and 26th. The director is Susan Doherty.
The group is currently in rehearsals with the play.

Mountmellick Macra is staging my three-act comedy ‘For Better, For Worse’ in the Macra Hall, Mountmellick this weekend, June 17th-19th starting at 8.15p.m. each night.
The play is a sequel of sorts to’The Two Loves of Gabriel Foley’ and features five of the characters from the first play – Gabriel, Aggie (his mother), Lucy (his aunt), Chrissie (now his wife) and Liam (his friend and adviser).
I wish the group every success with the production.

I am currently working on a new three-act comedy, ‘The Perfect Match’. It’s my 24th three-act comedy and I have been writing it for the past few months.
I am on Act 3 at the moment, but I am still editing and it’ll be a while before it’s finished.
It tells the story of the tentative relationship between Claire and Anthony, which is threatened when their mothers fall out.
I’ll post updates as they happen.

I am delighted to announce that the Tara Theatre Company is staging my play ‘The Two Loves of Gabriel Foley’ for four nights in Milford, Connecticut (June 23rd-26th). Auditions for the play took place in April and the play is currently in rehearsal.
‘The Two Loves of Gabriel Foley’ continues to be my most popular play.
I wish the Tara Theatre Company every success with the production.

Kilcullen Drama Group is halfway through its six-run of my play ‘The Two Loves of Gabriel and the feedback has been very positive.
The remaining three performances take place from Thursday to Saturday next, April 28th-30th.
I wish the group every success with the remainder of the run.

For anyone wishing to contact by email, my eircom.net address is no longer working and has not worked for some time. I have no access to it.
If anyone wishes to contact me, my email address is:
jimkeary@gmail.com

There are two productions of my plays opening on Friday night, February 25th.
Killalaghton Drama Group in Co. Galway presents ‘Hitting The Jackpot’ for a three night run – February 25-27th.
The Spike Players, Knocknagoshel, Co. Kerry is opening the same night with a six-night run of ‘For Better, For Worse’ – February 25th-27th and March 4th-6th.
I wish both drama groups successful runs with their respective productions.

As drama groups begin to tentatively choose plays again and cautiously think of staging productions, there is still an air of uncertainty about everything.
Finally, I’ve got around to updating the ‘three-act plays’ list on this website and all twenty-three synopses (and character lists) are finally available to read. This includes my latest play, ‘Finders Keepers’.
It’s good to be back!