Killybegs playwright to open hit show, Boyfriends at An Grianan, Letterkenny 

Killybegs playwright Ultan Pringle and LemonSoap Productions opened their third stage production and first touring show, Boyfriends in Dublin last week to great acclaim and with 5-star reviews. 

The show is a great hit in the capital city and is selling out for its final week – the play opens for three days next week at An Grianán, Letterkenny from July 11, as part of Earagail Arts Festival 2024.

Written by the Killybegs writer and actor, Ultan Pringle and directed by the rising star in theatre-making, Joy Nesbitt, hailed as one to watch in 2024 by The Irish Times. 

The play is a two hander with Emmanuel Okoye, Disenchanted 2022, The Dry RTE, 2022 and Ultan Pringle Falling For The Life of Alex Whelan in 2023, who play two unnamed characters, as they take a big look at their very new relationship and what a modern day romance might become. 

The play makes its world premiere at Project Arts Centre, Dublin on 26 June and runs for two weeks before hitting the road.

Following a three month affair between two anonymous men, Boyfriends charts the ups and downs and roundabouts of a modern ‘situation-ship’. 

As they swing through four million one hundred and ninety one thousand possibilities of what they might mean to one another, through time, sex, vintage disco, nightclubs, period dramas and calorie counting, Boyfriends asks us to ponder on that age old question: what is romance anyway?

While all the while being a story of two men who by chance meet in The George Nightclub Dublin, foster a dog, ghost each other and ultimately end up grappling with what it means to actually be sorta kinda maybe in a very intimate proper relationship with one another, Boyfriends also seeks to explore modern love, grief, existentialism and the heart breaking joy of really getting to know someone.

The show runs at An Grianán, Letterkenny, July 11-13, as part of Earagail Arts Festival 2024.