2011- 2020

Directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett
Performed by Conor Lovett.  
Set design by Christine Jones
Costume design by Andrea Lauer,
Lighting design by Ben Stanton.

A nameless traveller from a far-off place searches for connection and solace in an unknown country in this funny and sad meditation on mortality, loneliness, innocence, home, family, love, funerals, words, and the world.  A provocative new work by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Horton Foote Prize winner Will Eno, whom The New York Times called “a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation.” 

Winner of The Stage Award for Acting Excellence, Edinburgh 2014.  

Nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance, Lucille Lortel Off Broadway Awards, New York 2013.

'Blistering writing ... Devastating ... brilliantly and heartrendingly performed'
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian. 

Title and Deed premiered at Kilkenny Arts Festival in 2011 and in 2012 it ran at Pershing Square Signature Theatre Centre, New York for six weeks in a co-production with Signature Theatre Company and supported by Culture Ireland. It has since been performed in Geneva, Ventura (California), Cork, Edinburgh, London and, during covid, online. 

The original production was generously funded by late company patrons Micheline Sakharoff, Christopher J. Herbert & Nancy Welch.  

Will Eno

Will was one of the original Residency Five Fellows at the Signature Theatre in New York. His play The Realistic Joneses  ran on Broadway in 2014.  His play The Open House  ran at Pershing Square Signature Theatre Centre in Spring of 2014 and was awarded The Lucille Lortel Award for Best New Play Off-Broadway. Both Title and Deed (Gare St Lazare/Signature Theater) and THE REALISTIC JONESES made the New York Times’ "Best Plays of 2012" list.  Gnit, an adaptation of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, premiered at the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville in 2013.  Middletown, winner of the Horton Foote Award, premiered at the Vineyard Theater and was subsequently produced at Steppenwolf Theatre. Thom Pain (based on nothing) was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, it won a Fringe First Award at Edinburgh 2005 and has been translated into over a dozen languages. In 2022 Gare St Lazare Ireland produced The Realistic Joneses at Dublin Theatre Festival in a co-production with Rubicon Theatre, Ventura, CA and Laguna Playhouse, CA.

Link to Signature Theatre, New York

Title and Deed by Will Eno