The Quiet Man

The fees for this event include a €2 restoration levy. 

The restoration levy will allow 3Olympia Theatre to invest in maintaining and enhancing the theatre to ensure that it continues to consistently deliver the highest quality experience for theatre goers, actors, performers & producers.

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John Breen is a playwright and director now based in New York. John Breen was the artistic director of Second Age Theatre Company in Dublin until April of 2014. Previously he was the artistic director of TEAM Theatre and Yew Theatre Productions in Mayo, a post he held for ten years.

Breakdown, an Opera he wrote with composer Andrew Synnott, was performed at the National Concert Hall, Dublin in January 2015.

John is best known as the writer/ director of the hit play Alone it Stands, which tells the story of Munster’s victory over the All Blacks in 1978. John was awarded the Irish Times/ESB Theatre Award in February 2000 for Best Director for his direction of Alone it Stands. Alone it Stands was performed in Ireland, the UK, Australia, France, Malaysia, New Zealand and in Tasmania. It is estimated that two hundred and sixty thousand people worldwide have seen the play.

Other directing work includes Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me by Frank McGuinness for Island Theatre Company Limerick, The Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard, Galileo by Berthold Brecht, Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker, Our Town by Thornton Wilder, and The Pillars of Society by Henrik Ibsen. All were performed at the City Arts Centre, Dublin.

For Yew Tree John directed Alone it Stands by John Breen, Big Maggie by John B. Keane, Grand by Max Hafler, Charlie by John Breen, Village Wooing by George Bernard Shaw, The Playboy of the Western World by JM Synge, Mrs Warren’s Profession by G. Bernard Shaw, Sarah’s Comfort by Niamh Mc Grath, Fr Mathew by Sean McCarthy, and The Magic Boy by John Breen. John’s play Falling out of Love was directed by Mikel Murfi for Yew Tree in 2007.

For TEAM John directed Devotion by Leo Butler, Skin and Blisters by Audrey O Reilly, Light Signals by Paul Meade, Doughnuts by Eoin Byrne, and Sherbet and Tiffin by Pauline Shanahan. Most recently John directed Othello for Second Age

Alone it Stands had it’s US premiere in New York at 59E59 Theatres in January, 2019.

Mikel is from Sligo and trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris.

He's an actor, writer and director.

His most recent show, Oh ... premiered at the Galway International Arts Festival in July 2025.

His theatre performances include his three solo shows The Man in The Woman’s Shoes and I Hear You and Rejoice and The Mysterious Case of Kitsy Rainey (Loco and Reckless Productions); Here Comes Trouble  (Loco and Reckless Productions) Dances Like a Bomb and Dolores (Junk Ensemble); The Last Hotel and Ballyturk (GIAF/Landmark); Swan Lake/Loch na hEala (Teac Damsa); The New Electric Ballroom (Druid); Morning After Optimism, Playboy of the Western World (Peacock Theatre); The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest (Abbey Theatre); Giselle, Rite of Spring and Petrushka (Fabulous Beast); Desire Under The Elms (Lyric, Hammersmith) and In MiddleTown, (The Gate Theatre)

Directing work includes The Comedy of Errors (The Lir online), Waiting for Godot (Theatre Du Pif, Hong Kong); The Far Off Hills (Nomad Theatre Network); Toraiocht (Fíbín). Other directing work includes Falling out of Love (Yew Tree); Focal Point (TEAM); B for Baby (Abbey); The Second Coming (Fidget Feet/Hawk’s Well Theatre); The Walworth Farce, Penelope (Druid) and Arrah na Pogue Abbey Theatre

Film and TV includes: The Ballad of Kid Kanturk, Sweety Barrett, The Butcher Boy, Love and Rage, Guiltrip and Jimmy’s Hall. As a director Druma and John Duffy’s Brother.