No Romance
24 Feb 2011Size: 198mm x 129mm
16 Dec 2021
No Romance
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Bewley's Cafe Theatre, Dublin
From Mon 24 Feb 2025 to Sat 15 Mar 2025
- Stewart Parker Trust Award - 2012
A tender and funny tale about our secret selves, No Romance is a play about our search for connection in a fractured world. It received the Stewart Parker Trust Award in 2012.
Laura has a secret. Joe's has been revealed. Peg's been keeping hers for years.
Rich with the absurdities, hypocrisies and vulnerabilities that course through our lives, Nancy Harris's No Romance playfully observes the longings, fears and desires we reveal - and don't reveal - in our closest relationships.
No Romance was first staged at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2011.
A one-act play version, comprising the second of the play's three acts as a standalone drama, was performed as No Romance: A Desperate Business at Bewley's Café Theatre, Dublin, in 2025, and is available to other groups looking for a shorter play to perform (1f 1m).
'Great comedy, keen sympathy and lingering poignancy... Harris's writing is bracingly witty, alert and incisive'
Irish Times'It's safe to say that we are witnessing the emergence of a major talent... extraordinarily sure-footed writing and a depth of compassion and sly humour that bond into a dazzling debut'
Sunday Independent, Ireland'Poignant, tragic and laugh out loud funny... Strong new writing like this breathes fresh life into Irish theatre'
Irish Post24 Feb 2011Size: 198mm x 129mm
16 Dec 2021
