An Nuadha Players

About An Nuadha Players

An Nuadha Players is a community based amateur drama group in Maynooth, Co. Kildare.

In 1999, An Nuadha Players came into being and began preparing for our very first production, ‘Say Cheese’, a play by Bernard Farrell, which went on stage in early 2000. Since then the group has been in constant activity with pantos and plays, dramatic readings and fun fundraisers. These activities have drawn in wide range of age groups and the present membership counts many who started in our first panto in 2001 as small kids and are now playing slightly more mature roles! There are also those who were playing slightly more mature roles back in 1999/2000 and still have not got any greater sense!

Over the years all of our pantos have been written by a member of the group, Martin Higgins, and many of our plays have been original creations by local writers: Martina Reilly, Orla Gildea, Terry Nealon, Rory Griffin, Declan O’Connor and Martina O’Connor. This is a tradition of which we are particularly proud and hope that it will continue long into the future.