Landmark Productions is a theatre production company in Dublin, Ireland, founded in 2003 by Anne Clarke. The company has forged partnerships with writers and other companies, and has toured its shows in Ireland and internationally. Both the company and Clarke have received awards in the Irish Times Theatre Awards.
History Landmark Productions was established in 2003 by Anne Clarke.
Partnerships and touring Landmark Productions has an association with several Irish writers, including Enda Walsh and Paul Howard, the creator of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly. It produces plays in Ireland and tours Irish work abroad.
The company has forged partnerships with arts institutions in Ireland and internationally. Main partners in Ireland include Galway International Arts Festival, the Gaiety Theatre, Olympia Theatre, Project Arts Centre, Dublin Theatre Festival, the Abbey Theatre, and the Everyman together with Irish National Opera and its precursor, Wide Open Opera.
Landmark has also toured shows internationally to venues including St. Ann's Warehouse, Irish Arts Center, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City;https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/14/theater/ballyturk-review-enda-walsh.htm the Barbican Theatre, the National Theatre, and Royal Opera House in London, UK; and at Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland.
A film version of The Last Hotel, co-produced with Brink Films and Wide Open Opera, was broadcast on Sky Arts in 2016.
Awards In 2011, Landmark Productions received the Judges' Special Award in the Irish Times Theatre Awards in recognition of its "sustained excellence in programming and for developing imaginative partnerships to bring quality to the Irish and international stage".
In 2015, Anne Clarke received the Special Tribute Award at the Irish Times Theatre Awards for her "work as a producer of world-class theatre in the independent sector in Ireland".
Notable productions Krapp's Last Tape (Stephen Rea), directed by Vicky Featherstone; playing first in Dublin in October 2024, before touring to the Adelaide Festival Centre in Australia in February–March 2025 and the Barbican Theatre in London in April–May 2025 Walking with Ghosts (Gabriel Byrne), world premiere - 2022 Ulysses 2.2 (curated, presented and produced with ANU and MoLI), world premiere - 2022 Straight to Video (Emmet Kirwan), world premiere - 2021 The First Child (Donnacha Dennehy/Enda Walsh), world premiere - co-produced with Irish National Opera - 2021 The Book of Names (co-produced with ANU), world premiere - 2021 Backwards up a Rainbow (Rosaleen Linehan and Fergus Linehan), world premiere - 2021 Medicine (Enda Walsh), world premiere - co-produced with Galway International Arts Festival - 2021 The Saviour (Deirdre Kinahan), world premiere - 2021
Happy Days (Samuel Beckett) starring Siobhán McSweeney and Marty Rea - 2021
Theatre For One (and a Little One) (Roddy Doyle, Sonya Kelly, Louis Lovett, Pauline McLynn), world premiere - co-produced with Octopus Theatricals - 2020
Blood in the Dirt (Rory Gleeson) - co-produced with Keynote - world premiere- 2019
Theatre for One (Marina Carr, Stacey Gregg, Emmet Kirwan, Louise Lowe, Mark O'Rowe, Enda Walsh), world premiere - co-produced with Octopus Theatricals - 2019
Asking for It (by Louise O’Neill, adapted by Meadhbh McHugh in collaboration with Annabelle Comyn), world premiere - co-produced with The Everyman in association with the Abbey Theatre - 2018
Grief is the Thing with Feathers (by Max Porter, adapted and directed by Enda Walsh), world premiere, produced by Complicite and Wayward Productions in association with Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival – 2018
The Approach (Mark O’Rowe), world premiere – 2018
The Second Violinist (Donnacha Dennehy/Enda Walsh), world premiere, Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards winner for Best Opera Production, co-produced with Irish National Opera – 2017
Woyzeck in Winter (adapted by Conall Morrison with lyrics by Stephen Clark), world premiere, nominated for six Irish Times Theatre Awards, including Best Production, winning two – Best Actor for Patrick O’Kane and Best Supporting Actress for Rosaleen Linehan – 2017
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Postcards from the Ledge (Paul Howard), world premiere, one-man show starring Rory Nolan, who has played Ross in all the stage shows to date – 2017
Arlington (Enda Walsh), world premiere, starring Charlie Murphy, Hugh O’Conor, and Oona Doherty – 2016
The Walworth Farce (Enda Walsh), starring Brendan Gleeson, Brian Gleeson and Domhnall Gleeson – 2015
The Last Hotel (Enda Walsh/Donnacha Dennehy), world premiere, Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Opera Production, co-produced with Irish National Opera – 2015
Once (Enda Walsh) – 2015, 2016, 2017
Ballyturk (Enda Walsh), world premiere, starring Mikel Murfi, Cillian Murphy and Stephen Rea; Irish Times Theatre Award winner for Best Production, co-produced with Galway International Arts Festival. In a subsequent revival, which toured St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York, the part originally played by Stephen Rea was played by the actress Olwen Fouéré. – 2014 and 2017
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Breaking Dad (Paul Howard), world premiere – 2014
These Halcyon Days (Deirdre Kinahan) – 2013
Howie the Rookie (Mark O’Rowe), Irish Times Theatre Award winner for Best Actor - Tom Vaughan-Lawlor – 2013
The Talk of the Town (Emma Donoghue), world premiere – 2012
Greener (Fiona Looney), world premiere – 2012
Testament (Colm Tóibín), world premiere – 2011
Misterman (Enda Walsh), Irish Times Theatre Award winner for Best Actor – Cillian Murphy, co-produced by Galway International Arts Festival – 2011
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Between Foxrock and a Hard Place (Paul Howard), world premiere – 2010
October (Fiona Looney), world premiere – 2009
Knives in Hens (David Harrower) – 2009
Miss Julie (August Strindberg in a version by Frank McGuinness) – 2008
Alice in Wonderland (Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy) – 2008
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: The Last Days of the Celtic Tiger (Paul Howard), world premiere – 2007
Sleeping Beauty (Rufus Norris) – 2007
Blackbird (David Harrower) – 2007
Underneath the Lintel (Glen Berger) – 2006
The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett, dramatised by Neil Duffield) – 2006
Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? – 2005
Dandelions (Fiona Looney), world premiere, starring Pauline McLynn and Deirdre O’Kane – 2005
Skylight (David Hare) – 2004
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