Hatch Theatre Company
Current Productions
Casual by Meadhbh McHugh
Directed by Annabelle Comyn
Can we ever truly know someone?
Casual reunites writer Meadhbh McHugh and director Annabelle Comyn for the first time since their critically acclaimed production of Asking for It, winner of the Audience Choice Award at the Irish Times Theatre Awards.
One afternoon, engaged couple Tina and Ben check into an old country estate hotel. Ahead of their big day, the young couple has planned the perfect night away: champagne, a bubble bath, a tasting menu.
But as a wedding party spills into the rooms below, Tina and Ben’s flirtatious games turn into tests, and chance encounters start to cast shadows over all they had planned.
Casual is a darkly funny, and quietly unsettling, drama about the stories we tell — and withhold — from the people closest to us. What does it mean to trust? And how do we live with the ghosts of the past and the uncertainty of the future?
Produced by Hatch Theatre Company in association with COBA: Cian O’Brien Arts and Once Off Productions
Written by Meadhbh McHugh
Directed by Annabelle Comyn
Set and Costume Designer Tom Piper
Co-Costume designer Laura Fajardo
Lighting Designer Stephen Dodd
Composer and Sound Designer Philip Stewart
Casting Director Áine O’Sullivan
Casting Assistant Róisín Harrington
Graphic Design Gareth Jones
Producer Cian O’Brien for COBA
Cast
Frank Blake
Agnes O’Casey
The Peacock, Abbey theatre
Dates: 28 November – 19 December 2026
Previews: 29 November – 3 December
Times: Monday – Saturday 8pm
Matinees 14 June 2pm
From €19
Recent Productions
Escaped Alone by Caryl Churchill
Written by Caryl Churchill
Directed by Annabelle Comyn
Set and Costume Designer Tom Piper
Lighting Designer Sarah Jane Shiels
Composer and Sound Designer Philip Stewart
Producer Lucy Ryan
Cast: Sorcha Cusack, Anna Healy, Ruth McCabe and Deirdre Monaghan
Produced by Hatch in association with The Everyman Cork.
⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Irish Times
⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Irish Examiner
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Chris McCormack
“The stellar cast expertly convey the different characters”
The Reviews Hub
The Jesus Trilogy by J.M. Coetzee
Adapted by Eoghan Quinn in collaboration with Annabelle Comyn
Directed by Annabelle Comyn
Set and Costume Designer Tom Piper
Lighting Designer Stephen Dodd
Composition and Sound Designer Philip Stewart
Producer Orla Flanagan
Cast: Malcolm Adams, Colin Campbell, Alexandra Conlon, Fergal McElherron, Elaine O’Dwyer, Tierra Porter, Raymond Scannell.
Produced by Hatch Theatre Company in association with Mermaid Arts Centre
⭐⭐⭐⭐ ⭐The Irish Times
⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Reviews Hub
“A meditation on choice – difficult, disturbing and quite beautiful, with a superb cast led by Fergal McElherron”
The Sunday Independent
