About me

Treasa Nealon is a playwright and theatre-maker based in Leitrim. She is an alumni of The Irish Theatre Institutes Virtual Six in the Attic programme. She co-founded The Rabbit’s Riot Theatre Company in 2016 where they have produced over 40 different productions and projects including community public art installations and the North-West of Ireland’s first LGBT+ Theatre Festival.

Her most recent work includes short play 'We're Going Down and Growing Up' performed in Union Theatre London (February 2025), a rehearsed reading of her full length play 'Homesick' (January 2025). the commissioned short play ‘The First to Go’ which was performed by AboutFACE Theatre Company for their NEWvember New Writing Festival in the Civic (November 2024).

Her work has been performed as part of the Scene + Heard Festival, Galway Theatre Festival and Galway Fringe Festival. She specialises in
sites-specific plays such as The Last Night performed in Parkes Castle and The Quiet Monologues performed in various outdoor locations in Leitrim.

My Plays

796/3400


Synopsis:

796

Nora is waiting for Sister Mary to notice that she put salt in her tea. But until then, she will sit and tell you all how she was the greatest prankster Ballyford ever had the privilege of knowing.

3400

There are 1,700 souls in Ballyford, Leitrim, and each one is as nosey as the last. Aisling is pretty sure her grandmother can sniff sin off of a dead cat and that she'll be ostracised from Leitrim if it was discovered that she had premarital sex, let alone the 'A' word that must not be named.
Two women, generations apart, shamed by the same secret.

796 is in reference to the initial reports of 796 bodies found at the Tuam Mother & Babies Home while 3400 is in reference to the 3400 women who travelled to the UK in 2015 for an abortion.


Number of Characters: 2


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 2


Length (in Pages): 21


Location: Ireland


Key Words: Abortion, Mother and Baby Homes, Feminist, and Female Cast


Has the Play Been Produced? Yes


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


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Ireland

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