Consumed
By Karis Kelly, Directed by Katie Posner
A 90th birthday party that no-one seems to want.
Four generations of Northern Irish women, reunited under one roof.
A house full of hungry ghosts, with more than one skeleton in the closet.
Turn off your phones at dinner.
Winner of the Women’s Prize for the Playwriting 2022, Karis Kelly’s play is a pitch-black and twisted comedy of dysfunctional family dynamics, generational trauma and national boundaries.
Presented by Paines Plough, Park Theatre and the Lyric Belfast.
A Paines Plough, Belgrade Theatre, Sheffield Theatres and Women’s Prize for Playwriting production.
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Evenings
19.30
Thu & Sat15.00
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Duration
Approx 80 mins with no interval
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Tickets
£15 - £49.50
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Genre
Drama
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Age guidance
14+
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Content warnings
Contains references to or depictions of violence; death by suicide; substance abuse; familial abuse and trauma of Irish & Northern Irish history. Also contains strong language; haze; flashing lights. For full list of content warnings see below.
Content Warnings
Contains references to or depictions of violence; death by suicide; substance abuse; familial abuse and trauma of Irish & Northern Irish history. Also contains strong language; haze; flashing lights. For full list of content warnings see below.
Please note the information below may contain spoilers which could impact your experience of the production.
These include scenes with references to or depictions of: eating disorders; death by suicide; mental illness; substance abuse, alcoholism; spousal/familial abuse; gagging/vomiting; the impact and trauma of Irish and Northern Irish history, including the famine and the Troubles; discriminatory/hateful language directed at religious groups. Food will be used and consumed by the actors in the show. For those with allergies or aversions, latex balloons are also used as props.
Our content warnings are updated as a production evolves through rehearsals and previews, so please note they may change between booking a ticket and seeing the production.
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In the press
"Winner of the Women's Prize for Playwriting 2022"
"Ten stand-out shows of the Edinburgh Fringe 2025"
Rolling Stone
"A show ‘that will stay with you for the rest of your life’ "
The National
"Uncompromising vision and fierce originality"
WhatsOnStage
"A dramatic and stylistic explosion"
The Herald
"Blisteringly funny"
Broadway Baby
"A fantastically paced and multi-layered tale"
The Skinny
"Horribly, humorously gripping"
The Guardian
Cast & Creatives
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Julia Dearden
Eileen Gillespie
Julia Dearden
Eileen Gillespie
Theatre includes: Consumed; Camille, Dancing at Lughnasa (West End); The Winter’s Tale, The Crucible (RSC); The Shaughraun (National Theatre); Electra (Old Vic); Cyprus Avenue, Loyal Women (Royal Court); The Silver Tassie (Almeida); Bloody Sunday Inquiry, Una Pooka (Tricycle); Much Ado About Nothing (Sheffield Crucible); Shadow of a Gunman (Citizens Theatre); Bold Girls (7:84 Theatre Company); Blind Fiddler (Assembly Rooms); The Importance of Being Ernest, Da, Scenes From The Big Picture (Lyric Belfast); Ruby, Pentecost (Tinderbox). Screen includes: Derry Girls, After Life, The Alienist, Line of Duty, The Fall, Frankenstein Chronicles, Cal, Titanic Town. Julia has worked extensively in Radio Drama.
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Caoimhe Farren
Jenny O’Shea
Caoimhe Farren
Jenny O’Shea
Theatre includes: Consumed; The Ferryman (West End), Yerma (Tinderbox, Belfast), This Sh*t Happens all the Time (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), Scenes from an Inquiry (The Playhouse, Derry), Chemistry (Finborough), V.E. (King’s Head Theatre), Confidence/Supply, Carnivores, Girls & Dolls (Southwark Playhouse), EleXion (Theatre 503), Growth (Old Red Lion), The Commissioners (Company of Angels), Dancing at Lughnasa (Ireland tour), Snow White: The Remix (The Playhouse, Derry). Television includes: Derry Girls, Blue Lights, Crá, The Woman in the Wall, Willow, This Way Up, Hope Street, Doctors. Caoimhe’s debut play, Hello Charlie, was shortlisted for The Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2023.
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Andrea Irvine
Gilly Gillespie
Andrea Irvine
Gilly Gillespie
Andrea has worked extensively in Irish theatre, film and television for over 3 decades. Theatre includes: Consumed; Agreement (Lyric Theatre Belfast, Irish Art Centre NY, Gate Theatre Dublin); Sadie (Lyric Theatre); Cyprus Avenue (Abbey Theatre Dublin, Royal Court, Public Theatre NY)); Sive (Druid Theatre); Terminus ( Abbey Theatre Dublin, Edinburgh Fringe Festival) Television includes: Blue Lights; Line of Duty; Call the Midwife; Red Rock. Film includes: No Ordinary Heist; Peat; Baltimore; The Teacher; Dead Shot; End of Sentence; Five Minutes of Heaven.
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Muireann Ní Fhaogáin
Muireann O'Shea
Muireann Ní Fhaogáin
Muireann O'Shea
Muireann is a native Dublin actress. She has just graduated from the BA Professional Acting Course at LAMDA and will be making her professional stage debut in Consumed. While training, Muireann has performed in Alice Birch’s BLANK, 3 Winters by Tena Stivičić, Sucker Punch by Roy Williams, Saint George and the Dragon by Rory Mullarkey, and played ‘Hamlet’ in Hamlet.
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Karis Kelly
Writer
Karis Kelly
Writer
Karis Kelly is an award-winning Northern Irish playwright and screenwriter. In 2022, they were the recipient of the Peggy Ramsay Foundation and Film4 Playwright’s Scheme Bursary, joining The Lyric, Belfast as their writer-in-residence. In 2024 Karis was chosen to be a part of the inaugural Women in Theatre Lab UK. They currently have an original drama series in development with World Productions. For the screen: Hope Street – various episodes, (Longstory TV, BBC Northern Ireland, Britbox) Period Piece (Underwire Film Festival, Vancouver Women In Film Festival, Cineffable – Paris Lesbian & Feminist Film Festival), The Break (BBC Three and BBC Northern Ireland).
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Katie Posner
Director
Katie Posner
Director
Katie Posner joined Paines Plough as Joint Artistic Director with Charlotte Bennett in August 2019. For Paines Plough, Katie has most recently directed Shanghai Dolls by Amy Ng (Kiln Theatre); Fringe First award winning play Strategic Love Play by Miriam Battye; You Bury Me by Ahlam (winner of the Women’s Prize for Playwriting) at Bristol Old Vic, Edinburgh Lyceum and the Orange Tree; Hungry by Chris Bush (Soho Theatre/Roundabout Edinburgh); Really Big and Really Loud by Phoebe Eclair-Powell; Black Love by Chinonyerem Odimba (Co-Director for Roundabout).
Katie is an experienced and award-winning director. She has worked across a wide variety of productions both overseas and on national tours, including multiple productions with York Theatre Royal and Pilot Theatre with whom she was Associate Director from 2009 until 2017. Her work encompasses both intimate pieces of new writing and larger-scale community pieces. In 2019, Katie received a UK Theatre Award nomination as Best Director with her production of My Mother Said I Never Should at Theatre by the Lake. Productions include: Strategic Love Play (Minetta Lane Theatre in New York, Audible/Chase This Productions); Richard, M Richard (Shakespeare North Playhouse/Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds); My Mother Said I Never Should (Theatre by the Lake); Mold Riots (Theatr Clwyd); The Seven Ages Of Patience (Kiln Theatre); Swallows & Amazons (Storyhouse), Babe (Mercury Theatre); Playing Up (NYT); Finding Nana (New Perspectives); Made In India (Tamasha /Belgrade/ Pilot); Everything Is Possible: The York Suffragettes, End Of Desire (York Theatre Royal); The Season Ticket (Northern Stage); A View From Islington North (Out Of Joint); In Fog And Falling Snow (National Railway Museum); Running On The Cracks (Tron Theatre); York Mystery Plays (Museum Gardens York); Blackbird, Ghost Town, Clocking In, A Restless Place (Pilot Theatre).
Consumed by Karis Kelly is one of three Paines Plough shows this year, alongside Ed Edwards’s Ordinary Decent Criminal (performed by Mark Thomas and directed by Joint Artistic Director Charlotte Bennett) which will be touring to 15 venues around the country in October to December, and also associate producers on the West End debut of Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe – a play which began its life with Paines Plough and debuted at the Roundabout in 2014.
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Lily Arnold
Set and Costume Designer
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Beth Duke
Sound Designer and Composer
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Guy Hoare
Lighting Designer
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Jacob Sparrow
Casting Director
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