Newpoint Players presents
The Dead
Awards won:
- Ballyshannon Drama Festival 2026Adjudicator’s Awards – Extraordinary AccomplishmentBest Stage Management
- Enniskillen Drama Festival 2026Best Supporting Actor
- Newry Drama Festival 2026Best Costumes – Newry Musical and Orchestral Society Cup
Play
Adaptation & Direction: Seán Treanor
Assistant direction: Pauline Lynch-McDonald
Choreography: Leo Reynolds
Musical direction: Terence Rafferty
Scenic design: Mary Goss
Description
About this production
Newpoint Players staged The Dead, adapted by Sean Treanor from James Joyce’s short story, on the 2026 Irish and Northern Irish drama-festival circuit. The production used live music and singing to evoke the social and political tensions of early twentieth-century Dublin alongside the story’s themes of memory, loss and the past.
Recognition
Awards & nominations
- BDAdjudicator’s Awards – Extraordinary AccomplishmentTerence Rafferty, Musical DirectorWon
- BDBest Stage ManagementWon
- EDBest Supporting ActorNeil HeaneyWon
- NDBest Costumes – Newry Musical and Orchestral Society CupWon
- AOOverall WinnerNominated
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