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Devious Theatre were founded in Kilkenny in 2006. We perform different works in different spaces for different audiences using different methods. Our work hops genre but stays rooted in a style of comedy we have honed over the years. We don’t like labels. Thus, our artistic credo is mostly ADHD based and fairly guerrilla. To this end, our goal is to kidnap as many young people away from gigs and cinemas and pubs and drag them to the theatre. We have performed 24 productions to date, have won a PPI Award for Radio Drama and have had our work featured at Cork Midsummer Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, Galway Theatre Festival, TEXT | Messages at Project Arts Centre, Abhainn Rí Festival, Quarter at TDC Cork, Collaborations Festival, Cavan Theatre Festival and The Theatre Machine Turns You On amongst others. We were the first theatre artists in residence in Kilkenny Arts Office with our In The Future When All’s Well residency in 2011 where we performed the informal trilogy of Scratcher, Shifting and Smitten over a 7-month period.

TOURING POLICY

We have been touring our work since 2009. Our main priority is to cultivate and serve young theatre audiences in the south east of the country but we have been very happy to travel as far and wide as we can.

THE DEVIOUS THEATRE COMPANY TEAM

Company Member Niamh Moroney
Company Member John Morton
Company Member Ken McGuire
Company Member Kevin Mooney

PRODUCTIONS BY THE DEVIOUS THEATRE COMPANY

  • The Roaring Banshees by Peter McGann, John Morton (Watergate Theatre 2019)

  • Pulled by Niamh Moroney ( Premiered at Central Arts Waterford. 2016)

  • The Hellfire Squad by John Morton, Peter McGann (Project Arts Centre 2016)

  • The Union by Adrian Kavanagh ( First produced at Cleere's Theatre, Kilkenny. 2015)

  • Some Flood by John Doran, Kevin Mooney ( Performed at Cleere's Theatre, Kilkenny. 2014)

  • War of Attrition by John Morton (Players Theatre 2013)

  • Phantasm by John Kennedy (The Elysian 2012)

  • Smitten by John Morton ( First produced at a disused office building on Sullivan's Quay, Cork. 2011)

  • Shifting by John Kennedy (No 76 John Street 2011)

  • Scratcher by John Morton (Project Arts Centre 2011)

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