A Christmas Carol like you've never seen it before.

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A Christmas Carol for one night only, (probably) featuring the legendary actor Michael Caine! We sure hope he can make it on the night. There'd better be nothing going wrong. Because our understudy went out to a christmas party and is absolutely smashed.

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Oh and that's all before the Christmas Goose shows up...

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I wrote this after Charles Dickens, in collaboration with Chat GPT -- with live music, and laughs that'll have you questioning the meaning of Christmas.

An experimental live cooking performance for our future.

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We're very pleased to announce our award-winning show Cooking the Vegan Salmon of Knowledge is returning - this time in East London with food-themed arts festival FeastFest!

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Photography by Simon Lazewski

An experimental live cooking performance for our future.

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This isn’t the first ecological catastrophe we’ve created. 10,000 years ago, human societies across the world changed from hunter-gathering to agricultural lifestyles. We’d hunted our food off the face of the earth. We’re making another catastrophe now.

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Join the artist as they cook a vegan version of smoked salmon, using the ingredients to have a conversation about the history of food, and human impact on the environment in deep time. With live cooking and live music.

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Supported by PAN PAN Platform at Dublin Fringe Festival.

Catch your favourite rom-com pairing in real life! Rajesh and Naresh is back at Summerhall for the Edinburgh Fringe - in person this time!

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Follow @RajeshandNaresh on insta and fb, and @rajeshandnares1 on twitter to follow the journey of the show.

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Rajesh and Naresh is supported by funding from Arts Council England

So excited to announce we're bringing our salmony gig theatre to see live audiences at last! First off as a work-in-progress with VAULT Creative Arts' new festival A Pinch of VAULT!

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The performance will be in VAULT's new event space The Glitch, 134 Lower Marsh, at 7pm. Can't wait!

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Follow @bradantheatre (insta/fb/twitter) to follow our journey as we create the show.

UPDATE: VAULT Festival has unfortunately been cancelled. A sad, but safe and sensible decision.

 

VAULT will be in touch with any audience members who have bought tickets to the show, and we will update in due time with future plans for the project when it is safer to do so.

Rajesh and Naresh is back in person for the UK’s longest running LGBTQIA arts and cultural festival! 

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Presented at Liverpool's Unity Theatre for one night only on Saturday 6th November.

The Emoji Project is an intergenerational, participatory anthology of new writing responding to emojis as an ever-evolving, nuanced language.

 

Playing at the Hen & Chickens Theatre, Islington (London), and streaming online 12th-14th August. Produced by @distractedrat

 

The piece features a section by James Ireland about lobster emojis, trans rights, and Charlie Craggs' 'Claws Out' activism campaign.

My tiny play Cáithnín has been published online by Fishamble Theatre Company as part of 'Tiny Plays for a Brighter Future' with ESB.

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It's all about climate collapse, landscape, language, and deep time - and it's only 600 words long.

Whilst Ireland was locked down in 2020, Fishamble wanted people to keep their creativity flowing by challenging people in Ireland and around the world to write 600 word Tiny Plays.

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My tiny play Oxygen was written in response to one of the challenge's prompts, and published online in April 2020.

A short play all about daddy issues. And time travel. Oh, and Jesus ****s a shark.

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Written and performed in 24 hours for Plays are SHITE, a night of short plays by SHITE Productions in Dublin. This one was lots of fun to write and even more fun to watch performed!

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Photography by Kate Devaney

Salmon is back in London for a six night late-night run at VAULT Festival 2023!

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Winner of Staging Change x VAULT award.

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Photography by Paul John Roberts

Humanity's ruined the ecosystem. But humanity’s just a dodgy side branch of fish evolution. Solution’s clear. Join us, and return to being a fish.

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Staging Change x VAULT award winner for ecologically-conscious development.

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Follow @bradantheatre (insta/fb/twitter) to follow our journey as we create the show.

A pre-Edinburgh Fringe Festival preview of Irish and/or Queer artists.

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Join us and return to being a fish!

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But before that please enjoy a selection of amazing artists that will also be presenting their work at this years Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The Irish and Queer communities have so much talent to offer and we hope you enjoy a snippet of our friends' shows and the first full-length preview of our production of My Lover Was a Salmon in the Climate Apocalypse.

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Featuring guest performermances from Crystal Bollix, Eva O'Connor, Grace Quigley, and Pink Lotus

Lobster Emoji is back! I'll be performing my short monologue about transgender rights and lobster emojis as a guest performer in Crystal Bollix's new show!

 

My performances will be on Tuesday 29th March @8pm, and Saturday 2nd April matinee @2:30pm.​

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Join drag artist Crystal Bollix as they take on their greatest enemy yet … Romantic Comedies. Fall in love with this new cabaret extravaganza all about the pitfalls of chick-flicks and Colin Firth. Watch as they navigate the tricky world of rom-com masculinity, femininity and beyond. Expect gorgeous costumes, dazzling lip sync, and maybe a surprise guest or two…​

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Follow @CrystalBollix (insta/fb/twitter) to keep up to date with all of their work (they're a real powerhouse!) and to find out more about the other guest performers!

UPDATE: VAULT Festival has unfortunately been cancelled. A sad, but safe and sensible decision.

 

VAULT will be in touch with any audience members who have bought tickets to the show, and we will update in due time with future plans for the project when it is safer to do so.

Rajesh and Naresh will be streaming On Demand for the duration of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as part of Summerhall's programme. Available 6-29th August.

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Follow @RajeshandNaresh for more news about in-person productions in the future.​

A rhythmic experience of our seas. Whalesong invites us to discover the communication and social relationships of the largest mammal on Earth.

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A short play presented as part of a night of four plays on animal ethics and the environment, at London's first zero-waste theatre. Performed by Lysa-Marie Asiedu-Yeboa, directed by Oli Savage.

Rudradutt Shukul and I sit down for a chat on the Love & Citizenship podcast. We talk about the process behind my playwriting, non-anthropocentric universes, and the responsibilities and ethics around working on Rajesh and Naresh. 49 mins.

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Available on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Look for Episode #3 with James Ireland.