Tara Maria Lovett

Irish playwright, winner of the OZ Whitehead Award. Working with words in deepest, darkest Cavan.

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Last night opening night. Stunning. So grateful.
@dlrMillTheatre @LivinDred

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Can’t promise tea and cakes at The Whispering Chair but acting talent and direction which is the crème of the crop. Preview Wednesday coming. Come and see them before they get so famous none of us can afford to see them.

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Hughie:-
“I looked into the window of the the good room for the gentry to take tea and cakes.There she was. The primrose chair. Shining yellow in the midst of all. ‘Twas like could see nothing else but that and you in my mind. Only you, Aggie.”

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So excited four more sleeps till my play The Whispering chair goes on @dlrMillTheatre co produced with @LivinDred
Maud : Go on away and toss that ould yoke in the dump where it belongs and it full of rot. You and yer “an antique I think”

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Many thanks to The Joe Duffy show for letting me shout out for stories and photos of ordinary people from War of Independence time to get a space in our virtual programme when “The Whispering Chair” gets it’s run @LivinDred and @dlrMillTheatre . Email [email protected]

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Santa does not have a bag big enough for the pressie given to me by The Mill theatre and Livin dread. So delighted. Plays are dead without productions and playwright wither without the work seen. Thank you so much to all who kept the faith.

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So grateful to all at West End House school of arts for amazing reading of the lady operator tonight in Killarney.
Weather has killed the Valentia cable station reading.
We hope to return in calmer seas

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Sorry all due to weather warning the event tomorrow at The Cable station is cancelled due to orange weather warning.

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“You know who I am Missy. You know so many, many things. Your little delicate lady fingers, all them dots and dashes. The Captain was a fool to leave you at the Cable Station” - Sergeant Vickers - The Lady Operator

So excited it’s all happening tomorrow

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“Now away home Miss Edith and get back to yer needlepoint and yer velvet covered holy book and don’t be hintin’ at things a world away from porcelain tea cups and lawn tennis outside the Cable station of a summers evening” Pat- The Lady Operator
Nearly there

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“They are carrying out raids on those they believe instrumental in the cutting of the cable. The cutting of the cable was the start of a revolution” - Sophie
The Lady Operator
Buzzing for the rehearsed reading of my new play at Cable Station Valentia

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“Purple, purple and then a lick of sunlight came in through a crack, a tiny finger of it creeping, a finger creeping, a finger and- “ Sophie - The Lady Operator.
8 more sleeps, so excited the amazing crew at West End House school of arts at the helm.

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“Island people always come home, back to the island, the cable I think never lets go of any of us fer long but calls us back” - Tom
Only 10 more sleeps to the reading of my new play by the marvellous West End House school of Arts at the Cable station.

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“I had been crying for a full five minutes, a long time to cry alone when yer bowels and the history of yer whole world is torn open and in me head a constant tap, tap, tap, looking over at Valentia.”
Cat from “The Lady Operator” My new play.

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So excited for the rehearsed reading of my new play The Lady Operator by @West_End_House at the Cable station on Valentia Island on 5th October at 4pm. A story of women present and past immersed in the island and the Cable.

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Long day today really needed something to lift the spirits. The Mill theatre provided an amazing balm. The Collector quite simply beautiful, a rarity in this crazy world. Pure theatre, stunning a reminder of the power of actor and stage.

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So delighted to receive a bursary from Dunlaoghaire Rathdown county council arts office for the development of my new play “The Swan” @dlrArts Now let’s make this bird fly!!

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What a night!! Cavan County Museum and my new play “The Half Coat” given amazing production by actors @niamhmcphillips and Joshua Mc Eneaney and @GormanDec steering the ship elegantly. I am so grateful. The talent of actors is breathtaking.

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A tailor, a Quaker, hangman’s rope and a orange. Come make sense of that at my new play “The Half coat” Cavan County Museum Culture night, the magic of the theatre for free. Amazing @GormanDec , @niamhmcphillips and Joshua McEneaney, talent overload, so excited

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