Directing for Theatre

Education

Sunday 22 November 2026

€50

Runtime: 10AM - 4PM

A workshop on directing for theatre, led by leading Irish theatre director Conall Morrison. A director has to seamlessly combine the roles of dreamer and diviner with those of disciplinarian and driver of the process. The workshop will be an investigation of some of the key skills the successful director has to have : conceptual thinking for the setting and shaping of productions; text analysis for both contemporary and classic texts; rehearsal techniques to challenge and inspire a cast to give of their best. An enjoyable, highly informative, hands-on high-speed tour of these techniques, and more!

This practical workshop for theatre practitioners is part of a series of multi-disciplinary development workshops hosted by Four Rivers theatre company, throughout 2026.

Conall Morrison is a director and playwright. As well as directing thirty plays for the Abbey Theatre - including premieres by Tom Murphy, Frank McGuinness, Edna O’Brien, Marina Carr - he has directed for Landmark, Fishamble, Once Off, Blue Raincoats, the Lyric Theatre, Gaiety Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Co., English National Opera, The Globe Theatre, RNT., Irish National Opera, Cameron Mackintosh. Recent work includes Fair Deal by Una McKevitt in the Peacock, and The United States vs Ulysses by Colin Murphy at the Irish Arts Centre NYC. As well as several original plays, his many adaptations include Tarry Flynn, The Travels of Jonathan Swift, Woyzeck in Winter, Ghosts, The Bacchae, Antigone.