A Paines Plough and Dublin Theatre Festival production
Come to Where I’m From: Dublin
In association with Pavilion Theatre, Axis Arts Centre and Theatre, Civic Theatre, and Draiocht Arts Centre.
Since 2010 writers from across the British Isles have returned to their home-towns to pen plays about the places that shaped them. These plays are performed by the playwrights themselves, coming home to tell their tale. Now COME TO WHERE I’M FROM visits The Fair City to invite five of the city’s finest playwrights to join this celebrated project.
DYLAN COBURN GRAY
Dylan Coburn Gray is a writer based in Dublin. His work has won praise for its innovative use of language and playful approach to form, blurring the line between poetry and drama.
Plays include BOYS AND GIRLS (Dublin Fringe Festival 2013, winner of Best New Writing Award, nominated for the Stewart Parker Trust Award); DRAWING CROSSES ON A DUSTY WINDOWPANE (Dublin Fringe 2015) and Citysong (Lingo Spoken Word Festival 2015); BRISEIS AFTER THE BLACK and BLACKCATFISHMUSKETEER (Dublin Fringe 2016); THIS IS A ROOM (Dublin Theatre Festival 2017). He is a collaborating writer with Malaprop Theatre, winners of the 2015 Spirit of Fringe Commission Award for LOVE+. With them he has co-written JERICHO (Bewleys Cafe Theatre) and EVERYTHING NOT
SAVED (Dublin Fringe 2017).
‘Conjures an intimacy between us that burns as bright and as potent as striking a match.’ Exeunt
‘A reminder of the enormous tug that place has on us all’. The Guardian
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A Paines Plough and Dublin Theatre Festival production in association with Axis Arts Centre and Theatre, Civic Theatre, Draiocht and Pavilion Theatre.
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