About me
Fiona has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including the Irish Theatre Institute’s Phelim Donlon Playwright’s Bursary and Residency Award in association with the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship (subsequently being selected for honorary designation as a Stanford Calderwood Fellow). She has been on attachment at the National Theatre Studio and is currently under commission to the Bridge Theatre, London, and the Everyman Theatre, Cork. TV projects in development include Caroline for Samson Films/RTE. Her work is published by Nick Hern Books and Methuen Drama.
My Plays
Coolatully
Synopsis:
Play set in rural Ireland about the challenges facing a young generation and the seductive pull of emigration.
Number of Characters: 4
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 4
Length (in Pages): 80
Location: Southwest Ireland
Key Words: Comedy, tragedy, drama, young people
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? Yes
Award nominations/wins: Papatango New Writing Prize, 2014
Reviews:
'Invokes Martin McDonagh, Conor McPherson or Marina Carr... sad as it is, Doyle's play is also extremely funny... an expressive and memorable play'
Exeunt Magazine
'Echoes of Brian Friel… Doyle's play tells us, very touchingly, what it is like to be young in rural Ireland today and pins down vividly the tendency to romanticise the past and future to make up for the disquieting present'
Guardian
'Doyle's dialogue is instinctive, her characters, distinctive, and her motifs, ripe with meaning'
Time Out
Deluge
Synopsis:
There's something uncanny going on at Joe and Kitty's farm. Precious feed is mysteriously disappearing from the hay shed and prized livestock is being slaughtered at night whilst sinister shadows lurk in the darkness.
With fodder running out and no money left, Joe and Kitty, like their desperate neighbours, will stop at nothing to protect themselves and their cherished land. But at what cost?
Number of Characters: 4
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 1
Length (in Pages): 80
Location: Ireland
Key Words: Drama, ghost, love, thriller
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? Yes
Award nominations/wins: Eamon Keane Full-length Play Award, 2014
Reviews:
The Ceasefire Babies (NT Connections 2018)
Synopsis:
In a city still divided by crumbling walls, siblings Mikey and Jamie no longer see eye to eye. There's a change in the air and not everyone is ready for it. Jamie wants to reignite the old conflicts of her father and uncle, but Mikey and their friends must decide either to take hold of their own destinies, or allow the ghosts of the past to dictate their futures.
Number of Characters: 12
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 7
Length (in Pages): 60
Location: Northern Ireland
Key Words: Comedy, drama, tragedy, young people
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? Yes
Award nominations/wins:
Reviews:
The Strange Death of John Doe
Synopsis:
London, present day. The body of an unidentified young man is found face down in a suburban street. Who is he and where did he come from? He has no ID and nobody witnessed anything. It's as if he has just fallen from the sky…
Pathologists and police working on the case must uncover the truth and piece the story – and body – of this 'John Doe' back together. A breakthrough sends DC John Kavura into overdrive and as his investigation unravels, he uncovers a haunting story of our time.
Number of Characters: 16
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 8
Length (in Pages): 80
Location: Various
Key Words: Drama, love, thriller, tragedy
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? Yes
Award nominations/wins: Shortlisted for the 2018 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Reviews:
'Part police procedural, part on-the-run thriller, The Strange Death of John Doe is intelligently structured… Doyle weaves a remarkable, continent-hopping story of heroism, love and desperation'
The Stage
'Doyle offers a kind of poetry on who we are and what we ultimately become'
WhatsOnStage
'A sensitive retelling of a very modern tragedy'
Telegraph
'An epic account of restless humanity, tender affection and its tragic consequences… an ambitious, theatrically exciting and fast-moving panorama which conveys something of the breath-taking scope of contemporary migration, as well as details of its horrors. At its heart this is a play about humanity in all its truthful feelings, with flashes of perception about racism, injustice, violence, masculinity, memory and the irrepressible desire to follow one's dreams'
The Arts Desk
