DA

by Hugh Leonard

★★★★ Sunday Business Post

★★★★ entertainment.ie

‘A comic masterpiece’ Mail on Sunday

‘An outstanding play... beautifully done and superbly entertaining’ Lyric FM

‘One of Leonard’s finest creations’ Irish Independent

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“If you ran into me Da with a motor car, he'd thank you for the lift.”

Hugh Leonard’s hilarious comedy Da explores the relationship of Charlie, a successful playwright, with his adoptive father. In this semi-autobiographical play set in 1960s Dublin, we find Charlie in his childhood home just after Da’s funeral. While he sorts through his father’s things, he is visited by Da’s ghost, who stubbornly refuses to leave the house or his son's mind. As Charlie revisits his past, we get to share in the tender, frustrating and very funny moments that defined the complex relationship between father and son.

Winner of the 1978 Tony Award for Best Play, New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Play.

Directed by Toby Frow. Set and Costume Design by Ben Stones. Lighting Design by Paul Keogan. Music and Sound Design Denis Clohessy.

Cast includes: Ingrid Craigie, Stuart Graham, Rebecca Grimes, John Kavanagh, Deirdre Monaghan, Tadhg Murphy, Owen Roe, Stephen Swift

Monday – Saturday at 7.30pm.
Saturday Matinees at 2.30pm on selected dates.
Tickets from €20.

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DA

Toby Frow : Director

Gate Theatre: Debut.
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Ben Stones : Set & Costume Design

Gate Theatre: Debut.
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Paul Keogan : Lighting Design

Gate Theatre: Molly Sweeney, God of Carnage, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Birds, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Deep Blue Sea, Festen, Performances, Gates of Gold.
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Denis Clohessy : Music & Sound Design

Gate Theatre: Hay Fever, Molly Sweeney, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, BPM, Death of a Salesman, Arcadia, Present Laughter, All My Sons, Faith Healer, Afterplay, The Yalta Game, Sydney Festival 09, The Real Thing, Festen, Hedda Gabler.
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Owen Roe

Gate Theatre: Endgame (2010 and 2011 US Tours), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, God of Carnage, Jane Eyre, The Birds, Faith Healer (Sydney Festival 2009, Edinburgh International Festival 2009, Gate Theatre 2009 and 2010), Uncle Vanya, Festen (The Irish Times Irish Theatre Award for Best Actor), Catastrophe (The Irish Times Irish Theatre Award for Best Actor), Great Expectations, Shadow of a Gunman, The Cherry Orchard, Romeo and Juliet.
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Stuart Graham

Gate Theatre: Debut.
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Ingrid Craigie

Gate Theatre: Hay Fever, Celebration (BPM Festival), Arcadia, Faith Healer (Sydney Festival 2009, Edinburgh International Festival 2009, Gate Theatre 2009 and 2010), The Deep Blue Sea, The Recruiting Officer (Best Actress, The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards), Blithe Spirit, premiere of The Mask of Moriarty by Hugh Leonard, Heartbreak House, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Collection with Harold Pinter, Pinter Festival; Lady Windermere’s Fan, Faith Healer, directed by Jonathan Kent with Ralph Fiennes and Ian McDiarmid (nominated Best Actress The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards); Play, Beckett Festival, Barbican, London.
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John Kavanagh

Gate Theatre: The Speckled People, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Death of a Salesman, A Christmas Carol, Present Laughter (transfer to Spoleto Festival), The Deep Blue Sea, Uncle Vanya (2007), A View from the Bridge, Dancing at Lughnasa, See You Next Tuesday, The Homecoming, Dublin Carol, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Month in the Country, Just Between Ourselves, Uncle Vanya (1998), Juno and the Paycock (Dublin, Broadway New York).
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Stephen Swift

Gate Theatre: Hay Fever, Death of a Salesman, Arcadia, A Christmas Carol, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Deep Blue Sea, Salomé.
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Deirdre Monaghan

Gate Theatre: Debut.
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Rebecca Grimes

Gate Theatre: Debut.
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Tadhg Murphy

Gate Theatre: The Speckled People, The Real Thing, A Christmas Carol.
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