Landmark Productions is a theatre production company in

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. Established in 2003 by Anne Clarke, Landmark produces plays in Ireland and tours Irish work abroad. The company has an association with a number of Irish writers including Enda Walsh and Paul Howard, the creator of Ross O’Carroll-Kelly. Recent award-winning productions include Enda Walsh’s '' Ballyturk'' and ''Arlington'', Conall Morrison’s ''Woyzeck in Winter'' and the Donnacha Dennehy/Enda Walsh operas ''The Last Hotel'' and ''The Second Violinist''.

Awards

In 2011, Landmark Productions received the Judges’ Special Award in the Irish Times Theatre Awards in recognition of its "sustained excellence in programming and for developing imaginative partnerships to bring quality to the Irish and international stage". In 2015, Anne Clarke received the Special Tribute Award at the Irish Times Theatre Awards for her "work as a producer of world-class theatre in the independent sector in Ireland."

Co-productions and international touring

In its first 15 years, Landmark Productions has forged partnerships with arts institutions in Ireland and beyond. Main partners in Ireland include Galway International Arts Festival, the Gaiety Theatre, Olympia Theatre,

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, Dublin Theatre Festival, the Abbey Theatre, and the Everyman together with

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and its precursor, Wide Open Opera. Landmark has also toured shows internationally to venues including

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, Irish Arts Center and the

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, the National Theatre and Royal Opera House in

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and Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland. A film version of ''The Last Hotel'', co-produced with Brink Films and Wide Open Opera, was broadcast on Sky Arts in 2016.

Productions

* ''Walking with Ghosts'' ( Gabriel Byrne), world premiere - 2022 * * ''Ulysses 2.2'' (curated, presented and produced with

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and MoLI), world premiere - 2022 * * ''Straight to Video'' ( Emmet Kirwan), world premiere - 2021 * * ''The First Child'' ( Donnacha Dennehy/ Enda Walsh), world premiere - co-produced with

- 2021 * * ''The Book of Names'' (co-produced with

), world premiere - 2021 * * ''Backwards up a Rainbow'' ( Rosaleen Linehan and Fergus Linehan), world premiere - 2021 * * ''Medicine'' ( Enda Walsh), world premiere - co-produced with Galway International Arts Festival - 2021 * * ''The Saviour'' ( Deirdre Kinahan), world premiere - 2021 * * '' Happy Days'' (

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- 2021 * * ''Theatre For One (and a Little One)'' ( Roddy Doyle, Sonya Kelly, Louis Lovett, Pauline McLynn), world premiere - co-produced with Octopus Theatricals - 2020 * * ''Blood in the Dirt'' (Rory Gleeson) - co-produced with Keynote - world premiere- 2019 * * ''Theatre for One'' (

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, Stacey Gregg, Emmet Kirwan, Louise Lowe, Mark O'Rowe, Enda Walsh), world premiere - co-produced with Octopus Theatricals - 2019 * * ''Asking for It'' (by Louise O’Neill, adapted by Meadhbh McHugh in collaboration with Annabelle Comyn), world premiere - co-produced with The Everyman in association with the Abbey Theatre - 2018 * * ''Grief is the Thing with Feathers'' (by Max Porter, adapted and directed by Enda Walsh), world premiere, produced by Complicite and Wayward Productions in association with Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival – 2018 * * ''The Approach'' ( Mark O’Rowe), world premiere – 2018 * * ''The Second Violinist'' (Donnacha Dennehy/Enda Walsh), world premiere, Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards winner for Best Opera Production, co-produced with Irish National Opera – 2017 * * ''Woyzeck in Winter'' (adapted by Conall Morrison with lyrics by Stephen Clark), world premiere, nominated for six Irish Times Theatre Awards, including Best Production, winning two – Best Actor for Patrick O’Kane and Best Supporting Actress for Rosaleen Linehan – 2017 * * '' Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Postcards from the Ledge'' (Paul Howard), world premiere, one-man show starring Rory Nolan, who has played Ross in all the stage shows to date – 2017 * * ''Arlington'' (Enda Walsh), world premiere, starring Charlie Murphy, Hugh O’Conor and Oona Doherty – 2016 * * '' The Walworth Farce'' (Enda Walsh), starring Brendan Gleeson, Brian Gleeson and Domhnall Gleeson – 2015 * * ''The Last Hotel'' (Enda Walsh/Donnacha Dennehy), world premiere, Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Opera Production, co-produced with Irish National Opera – 2015 * * ''

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'' (Enda Walsh) – 2015, 2016, 2017 * * ''Ballyturk'' (Enda Walsh), world premiere, starring Mikel Murfi, Cillian Murphy and

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; Irish Times Theatre Award winner for Best Production, co-produced with Galway International Arts Festival. In a subsequent revival, which toured to St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York, the part originally played by

was played by the actress Olwen Fouéré. – 2014 and 2017 * * '' Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Breaking Dad'' ( Paul Howard), world premiere – 2014 * * ''These Halcyon Days'' (Deirdre Kinahan) – 2013 * *''Howie the Rookie'' ( Mark O’Rowe), Irish Times Theatre Award winner for Best Actor - Tom Vaughan-Lawlor – 2013 * * ''The Talk of the Town'' ( Emma Donoghue), world premiere – 2012 * * ''Greener'' ( Fiona Looney), world premiere – 2012 * * ''Testament'' ( Colm Tóibín), world premiere – 2011 * * ''Misterman'' (Enda Walsh), Irish Times Theatre Award winner for Best Actor – Cillian Murphy, co-produced by Galway International Arts Festival – 2011 * * '' Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Between Foxrock and a Hard Place'' ( Paul Howard), world premiere – 2010 * * ''October'' (Fiona Looney), world premiere – 2009 * * ''Knives in Hens'' ( David Harrower) – 2009 * * '' Miss Julie'' ( August Strindberg in a version by Frank McGuinness) – 2008 * * ''Alice in Wonderland'' (Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy) – 2008 * * '' Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: The Last Days of the Celtic Tiger'' (Paul Howard), world premiere – 2007 * * ''Sleeping Beauty'' ( Rufus Norris) – 2007 * * '' Blackbird'' (David Harrower) – 2007 * * ''

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References

External links

* {{Official website, https://www.landmarkproductions.ie/ Companies based in Dublin (city) Entertainment companies established in 2003 Theatre production companies