NEW ERA, NEW ÉIRE. A play by Luke De Brún premiering at Smock Alley Theatre in May 2024.

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New Era, New Éire is a contemporary play told through two intertwining monologues developed in collaboration with Smock Alley’s Scene and Heard Festival of New Work.

Set in a working-class suburb of south Dublin, the play centres around John-Thomas O’Brien and his father Stephen “Buzzer” O’Brien as they deal with the recent death of John-Thomas’ mother Marie. The play alternates between late night and early morning as John-Thomas arrives in from a night of drinking in a mates house in town before his father gets up for his job as a Dublin bus driver. The two men contemplate their strained relationship with each other, which grew distant as John-Thomas got older. New Era, New Éire is a play about change and the importance of memory.
Change is evident in the environment around them with cranes towering over their housing estate, building apartments across the way. Alongside this is a crippling housing crisis leaving John-Thomas feeling rather hopeless about his prospects of owning something of his own in the future. Both men are left with their memories of better times as their lives move forward.

A blackly comic look at how men grieve, New Era, New Éire is a play about change and memory that touches upon more serious issues such as grief, alcoholism and male suicide.

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