Prostitution in Belfast: the poisoned, twisted relationship between sexuality, poverty and morality
‘This is a very bad place. I did not go into any of the houses but stood without; asked some of the wretched women who were standing...
Buckish Slang, University Wit and Pickpocker Eloquence: Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
When trying to capture the language of the Eighteenth Century, Grose’s dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: A dictionary of buckish slang,...
What's in a name?
In 1978 I give birth to my daughter in a mother and baby home in Cork. Six months earlier when I arrive in Bessboro I’ve been given a...
Call for Actors
We are looking for female actors, playing age 18-25, for a new production of ‘Hostel’ by Fionnuala Kennedy. Please email CVs to...
Announcing Cara Kelly as Director of Madame Geneva
Cara Kelly has worked in theatre for over thirty years mostly as an actor but latterly as a director, with such notable directors as Max...
Jo Egan casts her eye over 'this old cracked cup of a place'
This week, View Digital Magazine launched its latest issue on the arts in Northern Ireland at the Lyric Theatre Belfast. The issue was...
A Place of Refuge? at Culture Night Belfast
Macha Productions is delighted to be working again with Housing 4 All, a group of activists highlighting homelessness and destitution...
A Place of Refuge?
This week, Macha will be performing at A Place of Refuge?, an event established by the Participation & Practise of Rights’...
Forgotten Voices: Rehearsed Readings of Plays by Helen Waddell & Patricia O'Connor
Macha Productions are delighted to be staging readings of plays by Irish playwrights Helen Waddell and Patricia O'Connor, inspired by the...
Writers on Writers Festival 2016
Macha took part in the Linenhall Library’s Writers on Writers Festival 2016. On Tuesday 10th May, Macha Artistic Director Jo Egan...
