ELYSIUM NEVADA

In the desert you can't remember your name...

or can you? ​

 

With a SOIRÉE PERFORMANCE at 7pm on Friday, May 15th, 2026

ABOUT

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Bewley's Cafe Theatre is proud to present...​

ELYSIUM NEVADA

by Barry McKinley

First presented to great acclaim in 2010, Barry McKinley’s Elysium Nevada was nominated for the Irish Times Best New Play Award. Bewley’s Café Theatre is delighted to present this timely new production.

 

In a sun-blasted retirement home on the edge of the Mojave Desert, two residents pass their days trading barbs, jokes and grievances as they wait for time to do what it always does. Their brittle comedy masks deeper fears about decline, memory and the approach of death. When a mysterious outsider joins them, the familiar rhythms of their banter begin to fracture, and what starts as a darkly comic portrait of old age shifts into something stranger, more unsettling — and unexpectedly moving.

 

‘a study in wizened, impotent rage, measured out in wicked one liners’ The Irish Times

 

‘it has a memorable conclusion, linking these fading characters to the heavy pulse of human history, at one of its defining moments’ The Scotsman

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Duration: 50 minutes

Age Guidance: 14+

 

BOOKING INFORMATION
May 4th – 30th, 2026
There will be a SOIRÉE SHOW at 7pm on Friday, May 15th, 2026
Mon-Sat at 1pm (doors open at 12.50pm)
Tickets: Low-price Mon/Tues €10, Wed/Thurs €12, Fri/Sat €15.
SOIRÉE Tickets : €15
BOOKING:  www.bewleyscafetheatre.com

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Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible via the main Grafton Street entrance with a lift to the second floor.