Irish Blood, English Heart is an exploration of how memories, real and imagined, can shape our lives.

Ray is a charming, enigmatic and successful comedian turned author. His brother Con is a London taxi driver struggling to keep his family together and bruised by his brother's success. When the two meet in a mysterious lockup following their estranged father's death, raw memories and unspoken truths come spilling out.

Irish Blood, English Heart was performed at Trafalgar Studios, 2 May 2011 - 21 May 2011

DARREN MURPHY is an award-winning playwright whose plays have been produced worldwide. His A Road in Winter won The Westminster Prize in 2002 & was later produced by Penny Dreadful Theatre Co. for the Dublin fringe. His Tabloid opened at the Union Theatre and was a prize winner in the London Writers' competition in 2000. It then went on to be revived for the Arcola in May 2004, and again at 59East59, New York for a season of new British writing off-Broadway in 2005.