This category is probably the main reason for setting up this blog: plays written for community theatre groups have a way of disappearing into the mist.
So, for the record, I have been commissioned to write plays for several community groups. In most cases, the raw material was the stories which the participants brought to the process; this was often blended with suggestions/motifs/possibilities which I would throw into the pot whenever they occurred to me. The scripts were all developed through readings and feedback from the groups, and the story-lines and character-development were well-chewed over before the rehearsal script landed on the table.
In this category are The Narrow Ground for Dock Ward, The Mourning Ring for Ballybeen, Strangers for Crooked House, and The Comer Story for Castlecomer/Barnstorm, also The Ballad of Rory Roe which was something of a hybrid, with professional and community actors/musicians taking part.
See the main blog for details.
Similar, but different, projects are referred to under The Gaiety School of Acting and Equinox.
