Landmark Productions is a theatre production company in

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, founded in 2003 by Anne Clarke. The company has forged partnerships with writers and other companies, and has toured its shows in Ireland and internationally. Both the company and Clarke have received awards in the

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History

Landmark Productions was established in 2003 by Anne Clarke.

Partnerships and touring

Landmark Productions has an association with several Irish writers, including

Enda Walsh Enda Walsh (born 1967) is an Irish playwright. Biography Enda Walsh was born in Kilbarrack, North Dublin on 7 February 1967. His father ran a furniture shop and his mother had been an actress. He is the second youngest of six children. Walsh ...

and Paul Howard, the creator of

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. It produces plays in Ireland and tours Irish work abroad. The company has forged partnerships with arts institutions in Ireland and internationally. Main partners in Ireland include

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, the Gaiety Theatre, Olympia Theatre,

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, the

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, and the

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together with Irish National Opera and its precursor, Wide Open Opera. Landmark has also toured shows internationally to venues including St. Ann's Warehouse, Irish Arts Center, and the

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;https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/14/theater/ballyturk-review-enda-walsh.htm the

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, the National Theatre, and

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; and at

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and

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. A film version of ''The Last Hotel'', co-produced with Brink Films and Wide Open Opera, was broadcast on

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in 2016.

Awards

In 2011, Landmark Productions received the Judges' Special Award in the

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".

Notable productions

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Krapp's Last Tape ''Krapp's Last Tape'' is a 1958 one-act play, in English, by Samuel Beckett. With a cast of one man, it was written for Northern Irish actor Patrick Magee (actor), Patrick Magee and first titled "Magee monologue". It was inspired by Beckett's e ...

'' (

Stephen Rea Stephen Rea ( ; born October 31, 1946) is an Irish actor. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, he began his career as a member of Dublin's Focus Theatre, and played many roles on the stage and on Irish television. He came to the attention of inte ...

), directed by

Vicky Featherstone Vicky Featherstone (born 5 April 1967) is a theatre and artistic director. She was artistic director of the UK new writing touring theatre company Paines Plough from 1997, founding director of the National Theatre of Scotland in 2004, and the ...

; playing first in Dublin in October 2024, before touring to the

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in Australia in February–March 2025 and the

in London in April–May 2025 * ''Walking with Ghosts'' (

Gabriel Byrne Gabriel James Byrne (born 12 May 1950) is an Irish actor. He has received a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for a Grammy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Tony Awards. Byrne was awarded the Irish Film and Television Academy L ...

), world premiere - 2022 * ''Ulysses 2.2'' (curated, presented and produced with ANU and MoLI), world premiere - 2022 * ''Straight to Video'' ( Emmet Kirwan), world premiere - 2021 * ''The First Child'' (

Donnacha Dennehy Donnacha Dennehy (born 17 August 1970) is an Irish composer and leader of the Crash Ensemble specializing in contemporary classical music. According to musicologist Bob Gilmore, Dennehy's "high profile of his compositions internationally, togeth ...

), world premiere - co-produced with Irish National Opera - 2021 * ''The Book of Names'' (co-produced with ANU), world premiere - 2021 * ''Backwards up a Rainbow'' (

Rosaleen Linehan Rosaleen Philomena Linehan (; born 1 June 1937) is an Irish stage, screen, and television actress. Career Linehan was born in Dublin. She attended University College Dublin and graduated in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and ...

and Fergus Linehan), world premiere - 2021 * ''Medicine'' (

), world premiere - co-produced with

- 2021 * ''The Saviour'' ( Deirdre Kinahan), world premiere - 2021 * ''

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Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer of novels, plays, short stories, and poems. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and Tragicomedy, tra ...

) starring

Siobhán McSweeney Siobhán McSweeney (born 27 December 1979) is an Irish actress and presenter. She is best known for her role as Sister Michael in the teen sitcom ''Derry Girls'' which earned her a British Academy of Film and Television Arts, BAFTA British Acad ...

and Marty Rea - 2021 * ''Theatre For One (and a Little One)'' (

Roddy Doyle Roderick Doyle (born 8 May 1958) is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories. Several of his books have been ...

Sonya Kelly Sonya Kelly is an Irish playwright and screenwriter. Kelly was born in Dublin. Some of her family had a theatre background: her uncle Frank Kelly was a well-known actor, and an aunt who taught speech and drama sent her plays by George Bernard S ...

, Louis Lovett,

Pauline McLynn Pauline McLynn (born 11 July 1962) is an Irish character actress and author. She is best known for her roles as Mrs. Doyle in the Channel 4 sitcom ''Father Ted'', Libby Croker in the Channel 4 comedy drama '' Shameless'', Tip Haddem in the BBC ...

), world premiere - co-produced with Octopus Theatricals - 2020 * ''Blood in the Dirt'' (Rory Gleeson) - co-produced with Keynote - world premiere- 2019 * ''Theatre for One'' (

Marina Carr Marina Carr is an Irish playwright, known for '' By the Bog of Cats'' (1998). Early life and education Carr was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1964, but spent most of her childhood in Pallas Lake, County Offaly, adjacent to the town of Tulla ...

, Stacey Gregg, Emmet Kirwan, Louise Lowe,

Mark O'Rowe Mark O'Rowe is an Irish playwright and screenwriter. Life Mark O'Rowe was born in 1970 in Dublin, Ireland, to parents Hugh and Patricia O'Rowe (to whom he dedicated his 1999 play, ''Howie the Rookie''). He grew up in Tallaght, a working-class ...

), 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

- 2018 * ''Grief is the Thing with Feathers'' (by Max Porter, adapted and directed by

), world premiere, produced by Complicite and Wayward Productions in association with Landmark Productions and

– 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

– 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 ''The Walworth Farce'' is a 2006 play by Enda Walsh. Plot A council flat on the Walworth Road, Elephant and Castle, London. Dinny is exiled from his native Cork City with his two sons Blake and Sean. Every day, holed up in the flat, they endless ...

'' (Enda Walsh), starring

Brendan Gleeson Brendan Gleeson (born 29 March 1955) is an Irish actor. He has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, two British Independent Film Awards and three IFTA Awards, along with nominations for an Academy Award, three BAFTA Aw ...

, Brian Gleeson and

Domhnall Gleeson Domhnall Gleeson (; born 12 May 1983) is an Irish actor and screenwriter. The son of actor Brendan Gleeson, he studied media arts at the Dublin Institute of Technology. He began his career by directing and writing several short films, and garne ...

– 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 * ''

Once Once may refer to: Film, television and theatre * ''Once'' (film), a 2007 Irish musical film by John Carney ** ''Once'' (musical), a 2011 stage adaptation of the film * ''Once'' (TV series), a 2017–2019 Argentine telenovela * Canal Once (Mex ...

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

Cillian Murphy Cillian Murphy ( ; born 25 May 1976) is an Irish actor. His works encompass both stage and screen, and his accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award. He made his professional debut in Enda Walsh's 1996 pl ...

and

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

was played by the actress

Olwen Fouéré Olwen Fouéré (born 2 March 1954) is an Irish actress and writer/director in theatre, film and visual arts. She was born in Galway, Ireland to Breton parents Yann Fouéré and Marie-Magdeleine Mauger. In 2020, she was listed at number 22 on ...

. – 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 Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (born 4 November 1977) is an Irish actor. He is best known in Ireland for his roles as Nigel 'Nidge' Delaney in the RTÉ One series '' Love/Hate'' (2010–2014), and is known internationally for his role as Ebony Maw in '' ...

– 2013 * ''The Talk of the Town'' (

Emma Donoghue Emma Donoghue (born October 1969) is an Irish Canadians, Irish Canadian novelist, screenwriter, playwright and literary historian. Her 2010 novel ''Room (novel), Room'' was a finalist for the Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donog ...

), world premiere – 2012 * ''Greener'' ( Fiona Looney), world premiere – 2012 * ''Testament'' (

Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín ( , ; born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet. His first novel, ''The South (novel), The South'', was published in 1990. ''The Blackwater Lightship'' was short ...

), 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 David Harrower (born 1966) is a Scottish playwright who (as of 2005) lives in Glasgow. Harrower has published over 10 original works, as well as numerous translations and adaptations. Career Harrower's first play, ''Knives in Hens'', which pr ...

) – 2009 * ''

Miss Julie ''Miss Julie'' () is a naturalistic play written in 1888 by August Strindberg. It is set on Midsummer's Eve and the following morning, which is Midsummer and the Feast Day of St. John the Baptist. The setting is an estate of a count in Sweden. ...

'' (

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in a version by

Frank McGuinness Professor Frank McGuinness (born 1953) is an Irish writer. As well as his own plays, which include '' The Factory Girls'', '' Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme'', '' Someone Who'll Watch Over Me'' and '' Dolly West's Kitche ...

) – 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 Sir Rufus John Norris (born 16 January 1965) is a British theatre and film director, who was the artistic director and chief executive of the National Theatre from 2015 to 2025. He received the Society of London Theatre Special Award in 2025 f ...

) – 2007 * '' Blackbird'' (David Harrower) – 2007 * ''

Underneath the Lintel ''Underneath the Lintel'' is a play by Glen Berger that premièred in 2001. The sole character—the Librarian—embarks on a quest to find out who anonymously returned a library book that is 113 years overdue. A clue scribbled in the margin of the ...

'' (

Glen Berger Glen Berger is an American playwright and scriptwriter. He has received commissions from the Children’s Theater of Minneapolis, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Alley Theatre, and the Lookingglass Theater. In 2010, he co-wrote the book for '' Spi ...

) – 2006 * ''

The Secret Garden ''The Secret Garden'' is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialisation in ''The American Magazine'' (November 1910 – August 1911). Set in England, it is seen as a classic of English c ...

'' (

Frances Hodgson Burnett Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels ''Little Lord Fauntleroy'' (1886), ''A Little Princess'' (1905), a ...

, dramatised by Neil Duffield) – 2006 *

Edward Albee Edward Franklin Albee III ( ; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as ''The Zoo Story'' (1958), ''The Sandbox (play), The Sandbox'' (1959), ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' (1962), ''A Delicat ...

’s ''

The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? 'The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?' is a full-length play written in 2000 by Edward Albee which opened on Broadway in 2002. It won the 2002 Tony Award for Best Play, the 2002 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, and was a finalist for the 2003 Puli ...

'' – 2005 * ''Dandelions'' (Fiona Looney), world premiere, starring

and Deirdre O’Kane – 2005 * ''

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'' ( David Hare) – 2004

References

External links

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