Selected Plays
1996 – 2022
Selected Plays: 1996–2022
Eight plays. Thirty-eight characters and voices. Twenty-six years.
Selected Plays: 1996–2022 brings together the theatrical works of Irish writer Tina O’Rourke.
Imprint: Clockwork Arts Publishing
Pages: 181
ISBN: 978-0-9553383-5-9
Published: 28th October 2026
Available in Paperback and Kindle
(Paperback distributed via Amazon Print-on-Demand)
From two strangers sharing a table in Circle Me, to a writer whose characters refuse to remain inside her script in Silence; from the shifting perspectives of Plays 3 to the fractured community of The Estate, these plays move between the everyday, the absurd, the comic and the unsettling.
People talk. People fail to listen. Relationships fracture. Worlds shift.
Written between 1996 and 2022, the collection traces recurring preoccupations across more than two decades of O’Rourke’s theatre writing: communication and isolation, repetition and silence, power, identity, and the strange instability beneath ordinary life.
The collection includes Circle Me, Silence, Plays 3, The Estate, War, Exit – Tobias Snee, Here We Go and Who Are We?, with illustrations by Alan Fitzpatrick.
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