New Publications in the DLI Library
The following new titles, recently launched by Carysfort Press, are now available to borrow from the DLI Library in Dundrum.
Selected Plays: Site Specific Work by Tom Swift.
The Story of Barabbas:The Company by Carmel Szabo.
The Theatre of Conor McPherson: Right Beside The Beyond – edited by Lilian Chambers and Eamonn Jordan.
The Art of Billy Roche: Wexford As The World – edited by Kevin Kerrane.
The Library is available at the Mill Theatre, Dundrum, Dublin 16.
We have an extensive selection of single copies of contemporary plays and a large collection of Irish playwrights from the nineteenth and twentieth century. We have recently acquired a fine selection of New Irish Writing.
- Plays – full length sets. One act plays.
- Biographies
- Critical works
- Technical Theatre books
We can offer our catalogue of plays on line and are continually updating our catalogue, currently adding our technical theatre books and biographies.
Through our partnership with the Drama Association of Wales, we have access to the largest specialist drama lending library in the world. A stock of more than 300,000 volumes is available to us, so if you are looking for a play that is out of print or alternately seen a production of a new and interesting play, we may be able to help.
Library Catalogue
The library catalogue is on three sheets. On the first sheet are the full length one act plays, by author, compilation plays, DVD titles and penguin plays.
On the second sheet are the full length & one act by play.
On sheet three are the musicals and pantomimes
Download The Library Catalogue
Christian O’Reilly
The DLI is delighted to license the work of Christian O’Reilly. The following plays are available on loan from our library. For further details, please contact Valerie in the office.
The Good Father is a warm, tender and funny two-hander about a couple in their 30s who meet at a party and reluctantly attempt a relationship when she becomes pregnant.
Is This About Sex? (M2 F3) is a modern relationship comedy about sex, and what it means to be a man or woman in a changing world.
The San Francisco (M8 F4) is set in a small Kerry town in 1963, and tells the story of two young women from different backgrounds who must find the courage to be together.
Chapatti , another two-hander, is a warm and tender love story in monologue form about two older people whose love of animals brings them together.
The Avenue (M3 F2). An historic exploration of “The Avenue” seems like a good community project. But one family is so stuck in the past that they have denied themselves a future…..
It Just Came Out (M1 F3) is a one-act black comedy about gender and racial equality. It begins when Michael, a liberal young man, makes an extremely offensive racist remark to a black woman in a supermarket.
Here We Are Again Still (M2 F1), set in a concrete landscape, is a funny and moving play about two lost, broken men, one in his 20s, the other in his 60s, trying to make their way back into the world.
The DLI Lending Library now has a stock of DVD’s available to members. Plays include:
Edward Albee’s A DELICATE BALANCE
Directed by Tony Richardson
Starring Katherine Hepburn & Paul Scofield
THE PLAYS OF THE DRUID SYNGE (2 DVDs)
The Playboy of the Western World, The Tinker's Wedding, Well of the Saints, Riders to the Sea, Deirdre of the Sorrows & The Shadow of the Glen.
DEATH OF A SALES MAN
Heritage Theatre Production
Written by Arthur Miller
Starring Lee J. Cobb
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME
American Film Theatre
Written by Brian Friel
Directed by John Quested
Starring Donal McCann, Des Cave & Siobhan McKenna
THE HOMECOMING
American Film Theatre
Written by Harold Pinter
Director Peter Hall
Starring Cyril Cusack
THE MAIDS
American Film Theatre
Written by Jean Genet
Director Christopher Miles
Starring Glenda Jackson and Susanna York
THE ICE MAN COMETH
American Film Theatre
Written by Eugene O’Neill
Director John Frankenheimer
Starring Lee Marvin
The Field
Directed by Jim Sheridan
Written by John B Keane
Starring Richard Harris.
Also available the BBC production of the George Bernard Shaw Collection.
Donating to the DLI Library
If you have a collection or selection of plays or theatre related books which you no longer need and which you would willingly share with other drama fans, why not consider donating to the DLI library. Contact us at 01 2969343 or email library@dli.ie
Open to the public
11a.m. – 2.30 pm
At The Mill Theatre
Dundrum Town Centre
Dublin 16.
Conditions of Loans - click here
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