Pop Up Theatre
All shows are available for Touring unless otherwise stated. Full digital recordings are available on request. Pop Up Theatre was set up to give a platform to new and emerging talent in acting, design, and technical support in live theatre.
Amid the Clouds
Seroosh Salimi and Louise Banghazi in
Amid the Clouds
Produced by Directions Out Theatre Company for Summer Pop Up Theatre Season 2025 at Smock Alley Theatre, the Boy's School Space.
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Amid the Clouds by Amir Reza Koohestani
(Translated by Vali Mahlouji)
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After its critically acclaimed production in Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, this moving production is now available for touring in 2026 & 2027.
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It deals with a young pregnant woman from Iran who wants a better life for herself and her baby and dreams of living in Europe. A young man is the sole survivor of a capsized boat. He has lost his family as they try to escape hardship back home.
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The play charts how both form a friendship and charts their journey through dangerous terrain in the hope of safety and happiness.
Amid the Clouds is a poetic and at times surreal drama of personal struggle overcoming life’s challenges.
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We witness kindness and courage under pressure as two people learn to love each other in a story of survival and living on the edge.
This is a story for our times and an international play that explores our current struggle.
Testimonials for Amid the Clouds
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"If you enjoy plays that balance introspection with emotional depth, this one would be highly recommended"
Muread Hughes Dublin City FM
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"…a compelling piece of theatre… It offers a unique and affecting experience – one that stayed with me."
Elizabeth Moynihan, writer & actor
‘’…a deeply moving play… poignant and beautiful. Definitely go and see it if you get a chance.’’
Alison McCarvill, Dublin South FM Radio.
The Lady Gregory Season
First produced at the International Bar in summer 2023 and then revived in Smock Alley Theatre in 2024, The Lady Gregory Season gives a platform to graduates from the Stanislavski Studio Dublin, Wovlerhampton University/ Colaiste Dhulaigh & Inchicore College.
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The plays are performed by a multi-ethnic cast of young Irish artists in their debut theatre production, in a reframing of two historically controversial and rarely performed plays that examine colonialism and its impact on the colonised.
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Witness and experience the lives and attitudes of ordinary Irish people in a rebellious and volatile climate as Ireland struggles for independence in the early 20th Century. Experience what it was like to live in Ireland with these two rarely performed short plays from Irish theatre history. The plays bear witness to what would become modern day Ireland.
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Share in the comedy of The Rising of the Moon (1907) as a man of authority struggles with his conscience to arrest an escaped republican prisoner who knows how to manipulate a situation. Experience the difficulties in The Gaol Gate (1906) of two uneducated peasant women as they face the unexpected with the powers that be at the door of a local prison.
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Both plays will be introduced by Lady Gregory, with linking material written by emerging theatre artist Liam Wilson Smith.
The Lady Gregory Season
The Lady Gregory Season
Deborah Dickenson as Lady Gregory.
Photo by Joe Devlin
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​Testimonials for The Lady Gregory Season
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"Lady Gregory is well served by this production of two plays The Gaol Gate (1906) and The Rising Of The Moon (1907). Ably directed by Joe Devlin at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. They are two one act plays-each with their own concentrated power."
Ronan Sheehan (Writer)
"The production’s timeliness stems from [...] the fact that the plays confront issues around colonialism in ways that strongly resonate today, and [...]the use of a multiracial cast, which reflects the Ireland of today.
The power of the production stems from Devlin’s strong direction."
Dr David Clare, Lecturer in Performance & Theatre Studies, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
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"Experiencing a young, black woman giving voice to Lady Gregory’s words challenged me to listen with a different ear."
Eve Early (audience member)