Winner of the Audience Choice Award at the Irish Times Theatre Awards in 2022, it also featured in The Irish Times’ Top 5 theatre shows that same year. Inspired by activist and wheelchair-user, Martin Naughton, leader of the disability rights movement in Ireland (who passed away in 2016), the production broke new ground in Irish theatre in its casting of disabled actors when it was first performed in 2022.

Martin is a man at war with the Government, with society, but, above all else, with himself – and at this crisis point in his life, which road will he choose? Will his fight for equality be derailed by dreams of lifelong love and distant shores?

Written by award-winning playwright and screenwriter Christian O’Reilly – Unspeakable Conversations, Sanctuary, The Good Father, Inside I’m Dancing – and directed by Raymond Keane, No Magic Pill wowed audiences and critics alike when it premiered in 2022. Don’t miss your chance to see it this time around.

No Magic Pill will be presented with additional accessibility considerations, including increased seating for wheelchair users and their companions, shows with Audio Description and Irish Sign Language Interpretation and touch tours.

No Magic Pill is funded by the Arts Council and is presented in association with Independent Living Movement Ireland, Irish Wheelchair Association and Disability Federation of Ireland. Magic Pill Productions would also like to acknowledge the support of Town Hall Theatre, The Civic, glór, Backstage and The Glens Arts Centre.

Supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon