Productions and Projects Archive
2016
FLIGHT/RISK
May - August, Floor 4, Wellington Buildings, Wellington Street, Belfast
A special development hub, established by Accidental, and supported by the Belfast city council.
PLAYGROUND
February - July, Down Arts Centre
A new venture by Accidental and Down Arts Centre, giving writers space & time to explore play-making. Through alternative writing bootcamps, scratches and a playwriting programme, we’re making a place for theatrical experimentation & creative risk-taking.
Gordon Osràm's Funeral
by Accidental & Dave Kinghan
March - April, Various locations & Ireland Tour
A daring, immersive play developed by Accidental from an original script by Dave Kinghan. Audiences will find themselves in a gallery tracing the path of fictitious artist Gordon Osràm's life and work, featuring: videos, photographs, interventions and interactive exhibits. As the performance explodes, Osràm's darker motives build intrigue to a fever pitch, and a personal question faces everyone present: What memory of ourselves do we wish to leave behind?
2015
Fast & Loose (2015)
November, Lyric Theatre, Naughton Studio, Belfast
This is the fourth year we've staged Fast & Loose our twenty-four hour play project at the Lyric Theatre.
Scratchy Scratch
September, Floor 4, Wellington Buildings, Wellington Street, Belfast
A third scratch platform, staged over a weekend, bringing seven new performances together to stage new work and receive feedback from the public.
The Lost Martini
Created by Richard Lavery
February - March, Floor 4, Wellington Buildings, Wellington Street, Belfast
A brand new immersive play devised by Accidental that looked at what it means to fight for change in a repressed society or run to start anew somewhere else.
Scratch Bang Wallop
June, Floor 4, Wellington Buildings, Wellington Street, Belfast
Our second scratch platform, staged over a weekend, bringing many new artists together to stage new work and receive feedback from the public.
2014
Scratch Night
November, Accidental Theatre Offices, Belfast
A scratch night platform facilitated by Accidental to help encourage theatrical experimentation.
Fast & Loose (2014)
October, Lyric Theatre, Naughton Studio, Belfast
This is the third year we've staged Fast & Loose our twenty-four hour play project at the Lyric Theatre.
The Kitchen, the Bedroom and the Grave
by Donal O'Hagan
February - March, Baby Grand Studio, Grand Opera House, Belfast and Touring
O’Hagan’s stage debut is a multimedia exploration of homecoming that rips into ideas about family and identity, and asks how far can a person be the author of their own life. Up-and-coming journalist Dempsey loves his London life – but is suddenly shipped home to Belfast to make a documentary on the changing face of good ol' Norn Iron.
2013
Fast & Loose (2013)
November, Lyric Theatre, Naughton Studio, Belfast
Fast & Loose is a twenty-four hour play project that acts to help writers develop new skills and tools.
The Biscuit Tin Readings (2013)
July - September, Ulster Hall Group Space, Belfast
The 2013 series was specifically focused upon only international work, developing new international plays in Belfast for the first time.
15 Minutes (2013)
June, Ulster Hall Group Space, Belfast
The second year of our miniature plays mini-festival, brought together a selection of great young Irish companies for the first time. Each producing a new fifteen minute performance.
2012
Fast & Loose (2012)
December, Lyric Theatre, Naughton Studio, Belfast
Fast & Loose is a twenty-four hour play project that acts to help writers develop new skills and tools.
DEATH (on a shoestring)
by Dave Kinghan
October, Baby Grand, Grand Opera House, Belfast, for the Belfast Festival
A darkly funny adventure to a politically incorrect afterlife DEATH (on a shoestring) was a mixture of theatricality and serious topicality and a surprise hit in the 2012 Belfast Festival.
The Biscuit Tin Readings (2012)
August - December, Ulster Hall Group Space, Belfast
The 2012 series launched with an array of new plays with a specific international focus. Our annual script development programme, in 2012 we worked with five writers to help them develop their scripts from early drafts.
Intervention (Gordon Osràm's Funeral) DEVELOPMENT
by Dave Kinghan
June, The MAC Upstairs, Belfast, at Pick 'n' Mix
A development project to explore video projection interacting with narrative storytelling, two performance artists are thrown into a cell together after disrupting a rival’s final performance.
15 Minutes (2012)
May, Ulster Hall Group Space, Belfast
A miniature plays mini-festival to highlight theatrical diversity in Ireland, brought together a selection of great Irish companies to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Ulster Hall.
2011
Watered Down
by Michael McCullagh
September, Ulster Hall Group Space, Belfast, at Culture Night
This quick witted short play focuses on three friends trying to find fulfilment in their bogged down lives. A special one-off performance for Culture Night 2011.
The Biscuit Tin Readings (2011)
July - November, Ulster Hall Group Space, Belfast
A selection of talent, drama and entertainment, accompanied by tea and biscuits, this series of rehearsed readings introduces a delectable assortment of fantastic new writers and plays.
The Writers' Room
by Michael Shannon
October, Baby Grand, Grand Opera House, Belfast, at the Belfast Fringe
August, John Geilgud Theatre, RADA, London, at the Camden Fringe
July, Phoenix Artists Club, London, at the London Festival Fringe
June, Brian Friel Theatre, Belfast, at Pop-Up Pick 'n' Mix
A simple and special play using detailed characterisation to explore the breakdown of reality. Four very different writers meet up to rip apart each others work but today when they arrive a script is waiting for them and they are the main characters.
2010
VI - Rehearsed Readings
April - September, Blick Shared Studios, Belfast
Our first series of rehearsed readings presenting 6 rehearsed readings by 6 new writers over 6 months. These new plays introduced new voices and new faces.
Job Interview & Mastermind
April, Black Box, Belfast, for Lunchtime Theatre
Two comedy shorts by Neil A. Edwards and part of the first Lunchtime Theatre at the Black Box.
2008 - 2009
DEATH (on a shoestring) DEVELOPMENT
by Dave Kinghan
June 2009, Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast, at Pick 'n' Mix
A development staging of an early script draft of DEATH (on a shoestring).
Confession
by Darran McCann
October 2008, Brian Friel Theatre, Belfast
Accidental's first new play, focused upon the seedy underground of modern Irland and the people trafficking deals that had become a foundation of the Irish success story.
No Exit
by John-Paul Sartre
September 2008, Catalyst Arts Gallery, Belfast
Accidental's first production was the immortal classic 'Huis Clos' and staged in the blank nowhere place of Catalyst Arts Gallery.