Freshly Brewed

Twelve short plays from Bewley's Café Theatre
Edited by Emily Firetog and Declan Meade

Publication Date: 4^th November 2008

If it has been anything at all over the past ten years, Bewley's Café Theatre has been an assiduously serious and professional enterprise, as the writing in the twelve plays selected here amply demonstrates. These plays should certainly be seen (and heard) again, and this volume should pave the way for future performances for all of them.
- From Christopher Fitz-Simon's Introduction

The Twelve Plays:
Too Much of Nothing by Mark O'Halloran & David Wilmot
Bad Sunday by Mark Wale; The Head of Red O'Brien by Mark O'Halloran
The Star Trap by Michael James Ford; Fred and Jane by Sebastian Barry
One Too Many Mornings by Mark O'Halloran & David Wilmot
Election Night by Donal Courtney; So Long, Sleeping Beauty by Isobel Mahon
Jimmy Joyced! by Donal O'Kelly; Buridan's Ass by S. R. Plant
Two for a Girl by Mary Kelly and Noni Stapleton
Is There Balm in Gilead? by Michael Harding

The Stinging Fly Press is delighted to announce the publication of Freshly Brewed, an anthology featuring twelve short plays originally produced in the popular lunch-time slot at Bewley's Café Theatre on Dublin's Grafton Street over the past ten years.

Bewley's Café Theatre, located in the former Oriental Room of the Grafton St Café, is Dublin's foremost stage for lunchtime drama & also hosts evening cabaret, jazz & comedy. Visit their website to see what's currently on.

From Mark O'Halloran's Foreword:

Bewley's Café Theatre is a venue which produces work of true quality, innovation and fun. It has also been and continues to be a venue that specialises in the fostering of new and emerging talent and I think I speak for many writers who started there when I say that without that venue I don't think I would have written at all or continued to do so.

Paperback 297 pages €19.99 ISBN 978-1-906539-04-7