Landmark Productions


Landmark Productions is a theatre production company in Dublin, Ireland, founded in 2003 by Anne Clarke. The company has forged partnerships with writers and other companies, and has toured its shows in Ireland and internationally. Both the company and Clarke have received awards in the Irish Times Theatre Awards.

History

Landmark Productions was established in 2003 by Anne Clarke.

Partnerships and touring

Landmark Productions has an association with several Irish writers, including Enda Walsh and Paul Howard, the creator of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly. It produces plays in Ireland and tours Irish work abroad.
The company has forged partnerships with arts institutions in Ireland and internationally. Main partners in Ireland include Galway International Arts Festival, the Gaiety Theatre, Olympia Theatre, Project Arts Centre, Dublin Theatre Festival, the Abbey Theatre, and the Everyman together with Irish National Opera and its precursor, Wide Open Opera.
Landmark has also toured shows internationally to venues including St. Ann's Warehouse, Irish Arts Center, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City; the Barbican Theatre, the National Theatre, and Royal Opera House in London, UK; and at Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland.
A film version of The Last Hotel, co-produced with Brink Films and Wide Open Opera, was broadcast on Sky Arts in 2016.

Awards

In 2011, Landmark Productions received the Judges' Special Award in the Irish Times Theatre Awards in recognition of its "sustained excellence in programming and for developing imaginative partnerships to bring quality to the Irish and international stage".
In 2015, Anne Clarke received the Special Tribute Award at the Irish Times Theatre Awards for her "work as a producer of world-class theatre in the independent sector in Ireland".

Notable productions

Krapp's Last Tape, directed by Vicky Featherstone; playing first in Dublin in October 2024, before touring to the Adelaide Festival Centre in Australia in February–March 2025 and the Barbican Theatre in London in April–May 2025Walking with Ghosts, world premiere - 2022Ulysses 2.2, world premiere - 2022Straight to Video, world premiere - 2021The First Child, world premiere - co-produced with Irish National Opera - 2021The Book of Names, world premiere - 2021Backwards up a Rainbow, world premiere - 2021Medicine, world premiere - co-produced with Galway International Arts Festival - 2021The Saviour, world premiere - 2021Happy Days starring Siobhán McSweeney and Marty Rea - 2021Theatre For One , world premiere - co-produced with Octopus Theatricals - 2020Blood in the Dirt - co-produced with Keynote - world premiere- 2019Theatre for One, world premiere - co-produced with Octopus Theatricals - 2019Asking for It, world premiere - co-produced with The Everyman in association with the Abbey Theatre - 2018Grief is the Thing with Feathers, world premiere, produced by Complicite and Wayward Productions in association with Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival – 2018
The Approach, world premiere – 2018The Second Violinist, world premiere, Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards winner for Best Opera Production, co-produced with Irish National Opera – 2017Woyzeck in Winter, world premiere, nominated for six Irish Times Theatre Awards, including Best Production, winning two – Best Actor for Patrick O’Kane and Best Supporting Actress for Rosaleen Linehan – 2017Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Postcards from the Ledge, world premiere, one-man show starring Rory Nolan, who has played Ross in all the stage shows to date – 2017Arlington, world premiere, starring Charlie Murphy, Hugh O’Conor, and Oona Doherty – 2016The Walworth Farce, starring Brendan Gleeson, Brian Gleeson and Domhnall Gleeson – 2015The Last Hotel, world premiere, Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Opera Production, co-produced with Irish National Opera – 2015Once – 2015, 2016, 2017Ballyturk, world premiere, starring Mikel Murfi, Cillian Murphy and Stephen Rea; Irish Times Theatre Award winner for Best Production, co-produced with Galway International Arts Festival. In a subsequent revival, which toured St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York, the part originally played by Stephen Rea was played by the actress Olwen Fouéré. – 2014 and 2017Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Breaking Dad, world premiere – 2014 These Halcyon Days – 2013