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REUNION

11 Sep - 11 Oct 2025

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Kiln Theatre presents

The Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival production of

Reunion

by Mark O’Rowe

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A gathering to remember

On an island off the west coast of Ireland, a family is gathering, and a storm is brewing.

When an unexpected visitor drops by, tensions begin to surface. Over the next 24 hours, scores will be settled, beliefs challenged, and truths disclosed, ultimately jeopardising their very future together.

This funny and gripping family drama makes its UK debut following its critically acclaimed première at Galway International Arts Festival 2024.

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Special Performances

Alcohol Free Performance: Tue 23 Sep, 7.30pm

Access Performances

Captioned Performances: 29 September, 7.30pm
Relaxed Performance: To be announced
Touch Tour: 9 October, 6pm
Audio Described Performance: 9 October, 7.30pm

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Ticket Prices

£15 – £40

Duration

approximately 1 hour 40 minutes, without an interval

Dates

11 Sep - 11 Oct 2025

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Reviews (Galway International Arts Festival July 2024)

‘A zinger of a play’

- The Irish Times

‘A masterclass’

- The Arts Review

‘A thundering cracker of pure entertainment’

- Sunday Independent

‘Scintillating drama’

- Financial Times

‘A joy to watch’

- The Irish Times

‘Perfect 10’

- Sunday Independent

Cast

Ian-Lloyd Anderson

Aonghus
Ian-Lloyd Anderson

Aonghus

Ian-Lloyd Anderson’s theatre credits include Hangmen (Gaiety Theatre); The Cherry Orchard and The Beacon (Druid); Come on Home, Sive, The Risen People, Major Barbara, Shibari, Alice in Funderland, Macbeth, The Rivals and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Abbey Theatre); The Plough and the Stars (Abbey Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, Gaiety Theatre); Common (National Theatre); Evening Train (Everyman Theatre); Dublin Oldschool and End Time (Project Arts Centre); Every Doris Has His Day and Bruising of Clouds (Fishamble); Richard III (Fast and Loose); Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Livin’ Dred); Danti Dan (Galloglass Theatre); The Colleen Bawn (Bedrock Productions) and Bad Sunday (TILT). 

His most recent screen credits include The Long Shadow (ITV), The House Across the Street (Channel 5) and Redemption (Virgin Media One, ITV), That Dirty Black Bag (Bron), Magpie Murders (PBS, ITVX), Modern Love (Amazon), Cold Case Collins and State of Flux (Loosehorse / RTE). Ian has just completed filming on the 8-part series, Safe Harbour (Streamz).

His other film and television credits include Herself (Element Pictures); Blood (Channel 5); Wastewater, Headcases, Raw and The Clinic (RTÉ); Vikings (MGM / History); Honest (IFB Short Film); Dublin Oldschool (Element Pictures), for which he was nominated for an IFTA; They Shoot People (short); Leave (short); Game of Thrones (HBO); Love/Hate (RTÉ); Standby (Black Sheep Productions); Scratch (short); and Dorothy Mills (Octagon Films).

Ian was awarded Best Supporting Actor at The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards for his performance in Druid’s The Beacon at the Gate Theatre in 2020.

Venetia Bowe

Janice
Venetia Bowe

Janice

Venetia most recently played in Druid Theatre Company’s nationwide touring production of Sean O’Casey’s Three Short Comedies. Further credits include Gina Moxley’s Danti-Dan for Livin’ Dred; the part of Joy in the critically-acclaimed production Lost Lear which was devised with Dan Colley for Dublin Theatre Festival; The Stars & Stripes Shaded Green, Three Short Comedies by Sean O’Casey and DruidGregory, all directed by Garry Hynes for Druid; Asking for It, directed by Annabelle Comyn for Landmark Productions and The Everyman; Rough Magic’s Much Ado About Nothing; This Beach (Brokentalkers), and Nora, a version of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House adapted by Belinda McKeon and Annie Ryan (Corn Exchange). 

Screen credits include Edna O’Brien’s Joyce’s Women as part of the production at the Abbey Theatre; Baths directed by Nell Hensey; the role of Katya in the Irish/Finnish co-production Cold Courage directed by Agneta Fagerström-Olsson for Luminoir, The Fall of the House of Piecraft directed by TJ O’Grady-Peyton; the BBC Arts programme Imagine: Edna O’Brien; and the lead role in Oonagh Kearney’s experimental dance short, Five Letters to a Stranger who will Dissect my Brain, a collaboration with Junk Ensemble based on a poem by Doireann Ní Ghríofa.

Venetia holds a Bachelor in Acting degree from The Lír Academy at Trinity College Dublin (in partnership with RADA).

Stephen Brennan

Felix
Stephen Brennan

Felix

Stephen Brennan was last seen at Galway International Arts Festival as the Captain in Woyzeck in Winter, produced by Landmark Productions and GIAF. The production was subsequently seen at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, and at the Barbican in London in 2017.

Stephen became a member of the Abbey Theatre company in 1975, remaining for eight years, playing a wide variety of roles, including the Abbey’s first Hamlet in 1983. He spent a year at the Royal National Theatre in London in 1984, and since then has done a large body of work at the Gate Theatre Dublin, including Waiting for Godot (national tour and worldwide). His other performances at the Gate include Higgins in Pygmalion, Rochester in Jane Eyre, Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, Garry in Present Laughter and the title roles in Tartuffe, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Life of Galileo, Da and Oedipus.

His other favourite roles include Blackbird (Landmark Productions); Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show and Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew. In 2013, he played Captain Boyle in Joe Dowling’s production of Juno and the Paycock at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and more recently appeared as the Man in Marina Carr’s The Cordelia Dream, streamed by The Irish Rep, New York, 2021 and last year as Sebastian in Nancy Harris’ Somewhere Out There You at the Abbey Theatre.

His film and television credits include The Woman in the Wall; The Last Duel; Cherry; Panto; The Tudors; Eat the Peach; The General; The Boys and Girl from Clare; A Piece of Monologue; Waiting for Godot; Ballykissangel; Father Ted; and Bachelors Walk.

Leonard Buckley

Ciaran
Leonard Buckley

Ciaran

Leonard was educated at Trinity College Dublin and trained at RADA. 

Leonard’s theatre credits include Brian Friel’s Translations (Lyric Belfast and Abbey Theatre) and The Long Song (Chichester Festival Theatre)

Recent TV credits include the new adaptation of the hit FX series Say Nothing, The Velveteen Rabbit for Apple TV+, Julian Fellowes’ The Next Chapter for Epix and Hulu’s hit series The Great alongside Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult. 

Leonard made his film debut in Kenneth Branagh’s Oscar-winning feature Belfast alongside Dame Judi Dench, Ciarán Hinds and Jamie Dornan. He has gone on to film the Irish-American independent thriller Big House. 

Simone Collins

Holly
Simone Collins

Holly

Simone’s theatre credits include Mark O’Rowe’s version of Ibsen’s Ghosts (Landmark Productions and the Abbey Theatre); A Christmas Carol and The Great Gatsby (Gate Theatre); and The Wizard of Oz (Cork Opera House).

Simone recently starred in the Irish horror feature All You Need Is Death. Her other feature film credits include Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel and the thriller Barber, starring alongside Aidan Gillen. On television, Simone was seen in Conversations With Friends alongside Joe Alwyn, Alison Oliver, Jemima Kirke and Sasha Lane. Her other credits include Quantico for ABC. 

In 2019, Simone was named one of Ireland’s Hottest Young Talents to Watch by the Irish Times.

Peter Corboy

Maurice
Peter Corboy

Maurice

Peter is a London-based actor. He trained at Trinity College Dublin and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Peter’s recent stage credits include Hothouse (Malaprop, Project Arts Centre and Irish Arts Center), Theatre for One (Landmark Productions); Multiple Casualty Incident (The Yard Theatre); Ulysses (Jermyn Street Theatre); Before You Say Anything (Malaprop and Dublin Fringe Festival); Much Ado About Nothing and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Rough Magic)

Recent TV credits include Bad Sisters Season 2 (AppleTV); The Vanishing Triangle (AMC+ and Virgin Media) and Fair City (RTÉ).

Peter can next be seen in A Moon for the Misbegotten at the Almeida Theatre, London. 

Desmond Eastwood

Stuart
Desmond Eastwood

Stuart

Desmond was born in Belfast, North of Ireland. Recent stage credits include Once Before I Go (Gate Theatre); The Lieutenant Of Inishmore (Gaiety Theatre); and Blackout (Lyric Theatre). 

He most recently appeared on screen as Colton in Old Guy, directed by Simon West for 23ten, opposite Christoph Waltz and Lucy Liu. Other recent screen credits include the roles of DS Murray Canning in the BAFTA nominated series Blue Lights for BBC, and Lieutenant John Wilson in Stormskerry Maja, directed by Tiina Lymi for Solar Films.

Other screen credits include In the Land of Saints and Sinners (Netflix) which premiered at last year’s Venice Biennale, The Last Rifleman (Dir: Terry Loane) opposite Pierce Brosnan, Normal People (BBC/HULU, IFTA Nomination), Derry Girls (Channel 4), Vikings (History Channel), Krypton (SYFY), Hidden Assets (RTÉ), Blood (Channel 5), Black Medicine (NI Screen), Nightride (Village Films) and Barber (Screen Ireland).

Kate Gilmore

Marilyn
Kate Gilmore

Marilyn

Kate has just completed an international tour with SafeHouse, a one-woman show by Enda Walsh and Anna Mullarkey, directed by Enda Walsh, for the Abbey Theatre, which most recently played St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn and the 2025 FIND festival at Schaubühne Berlin.

Previous theatre credits include Theatre for One and Straight to Video (Landmark Productions); Gold in the Water, The President, Piaf, A Christmas Carol, The Great Gatsby, The Snapper and Assassins (Gate Theatre); Light a Penny Candle and Little Gem (Gaiety Theatre and Breda Cashe Productions); Gym, Swim, Party directed by Louise Lowe for Dublin Theatre Festival; The Train (Rough Magic); The Dead (Performance Corporation); and Town is Dead (Abbey Theatre).

TV and film credits include Northern Lights (Deadpan Pictures); Magpie Murders (11th Hour Films, PBS); Striking Out series (RTÉ); The Legends of Longwood (Grand Pictures); and Fair City (RTÉ).

Kate won the Irish Times Irish Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2015 and was nominated again in 2017.

Catherine Walker

Gina
Catherine Walker

Gina

Catherine Walker’s theatre credits include The Approach, The Talk of the Town (Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards Best Actress Award), Miss Julie, Blackbird and Knives in Hens (Landmark Productions); Hedda Gabler, The House and What Happened Bridgie Cleary (Abbey Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire (ITITA Best Supporting Actress Award), Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Uncle Vanya and Jane Eyre (Gate Theatre); Phaedra (Rough Magic); Fanny and Alexander (Old Vic); Richard II, A Month in the Country and Troilus and Cressida (RSC); and Wild Orchids and Stairs to the Roof (Chichester Festival Theatre).

Her film and television credits include House of Gucci and Napoleon, directed by Ridley Scott; My Sailor, My Love (IFTA Best Supporting Actress nomination, Samson Films); The Delinquent Season (Parallel Films); Critical (IFTA Best Supporting Actress nomination, Sky); Cursed (Netflix); Shetland (ITV Studios); We Ourselves (IFTA Best Supporting Actress nomination, An Pointe Productions); Versailles (Canal Plus); The Deceived (IFTA Best Actress nomination, Channel 5); Rebellion, Acceptable Risk, Finding Joy and The Clinic (RTÉ); A Dark Song (IFTA Best Actress nomination, Samson Films); and Patrick’s Day (IFTA Best Actress nomination, Ignition Films).

Creative Team

Mark O'Rowe

Writer and Director
Mark O'Rowe

Writer and Director

Mark O’Rowe is a writer and director.

His plays include From Both Hips (Fishamble Theatre Company), Howie the Rookie (Bush Theatre), Made in China (Peacock Theatre), Crestfall (Gate Theatre), Terminus (Peacock Theatre), Our Few and Evil Days (Abbey Theatre) and The Approach (Landmark Productions).

He has also adapted several works, including Ghosts (Landmark Productions and the Abbey Theatre), Hedda Gabler (Abbey Theatre) and DruidShakespeare, an amalgamation of four of Shakespeare’s history plays (Druid Theatre Company).

Screenplays include Intermission, Boy A, Perrier’s Bounty, Broken, and The Delinquent Season, which he also directed.

TV includes the series Temple and Normal People.

Francis O'Connor

Set Designer

Joan O'Clery

Costume Designer

Sinéad McKenna

Lighting Designer

Aoife Kavanagh

Sound Designer