On Blueberry Hill

Now we've lived together in contentment, more or less, for nigh on twenty year. Like turtle doves. - In prison, I mean, for fuck's sake, the chances of that.





PJ and Christy: sworn enemies destined to share one small room for twenty years. As the two men recall the joys and torments of life outside - the childhood excursions, a deadly brawl, past loves and summer dresses - slowly they uncover the tragic events that have lead them to their cell in Montjoy.





A play that explores our capacity to commit the deadliest of crimes but also our capacity for survival, reconciliation and love, ON BLUEBERRY HILL by Sebastian Barry (twice winner of the Costa Book of the Year) premiered in a Fishamble production at the Pavilion Theatre as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival and at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris in October 2017.



Sebastian Barry was born in 1955 and educated at Catholic University School and Trinity College, Dublin. For his plays he has won a number of awards, including a Critics' Circle Award and Lloyd's Private Banking Playwright of the Year. For his novels he has been awarded the Costa Book of the Year Award (twice), the Walter Scott Prize (twice), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has honorary doctorates from the Open University, NUI Galway, and the University of East Anglia. Sebastian Barry is the Laureate for Irish Fiction 2018-2021.