A Brilliant Void

Lady Clanbevan's Baby

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:45:00 +0000

Lady Clanbevan’s Baby, from 1915, considers the lengths to which somebody might go to retain their youthful good looks. And the price that they – and others – may have to pay. This features Richard Norman-Wright and Sarah Byrne, directed by Mary Shannon with Ronald Jones. facebook.com/skerriestheatregroup instagram.com/skerriestheatregroup tiktok.com/skerriestheatregroup

The Professor's Experiment

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:20:00 +0000

This is adapted from the 1895 short story by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, taken from A Brilliant Void, published by Tramp Press.

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This story, from a time when anaesthesia was in its infancy, recounts the tale of a professor who has devised a method to keep people unconscious for precise periods of time: not just hours or day days, but possibly months or years. He has asked permission to test it on prisoners from Kilmainham Jail but been refused. he is close to despair, when young woman in s state of desperation turns up at his door...

Featuring Aisling Coleman, Dave McGloughlin, Conor Chatten, Ciara Russell and Bob Murphy

Directed by Clare Fox.

Sound design and sound engineering by Shane Walsh and Noël Duplaa

Adapted for audio and produced by Tom Tierney

Incidental music by Noël Duplaa and Tom Tierney

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The Diamond Lens, A Brilliant Void

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:23:00 +0000

This is adapted from the 1858 short story by Fitz-James O'Brien, taken from A Brilliant Void, published by Tramp Press.

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This story, from the 1850s, is about a young man who becomes obsessed with what he sees though his microscopes. At a time when the existence of the atom as we know it was not yet firmly established, the story recounts how he manages to look inside an atom (using a diamond lens) and the extraordinary world he sees there.