PHOTOS: Jilly McGrath

Cast:

Anisa Abuukar, Soffiyah Adewoyin, Clare Barrett, Callum Barry, Saoirse Bruen, John Cronin,

Subhashini Goda, B.L. MacMurrough, Jasmine-Frances Mooney, Nashad Omar Abdi, Ankur Vikal

Directed by:

Maeve Stone: The Free State, Love is a Foreign Language, Boiled Rice,

All the Things I Want to Say, Redacted

Oonagh Murphy: Care Order

Em Ó Ceallaigh: One Percent Chance

Edited by:

Alex Gill

Future Stories conceived by

Oonagh Murphy

Story by

Emmet Kirwan

Screen adaptation by

Maeve Stone, Alex Gill and Em Ó Ceallaigh with additional monologue by B.L. MacMurrough

Final monologue by

B.L. MacMurrough

Script EditorEm Ó Ceallaigh

Produced by:

Cracking Light Productions

Production Coordinator:

Zoe Reynolds

Production Assistants:

Ashleigh Dorrell, Anna Buchmueller

Camera & Lighting

DOPAlex Gill

First Assistant Camera (1st AC):

Patrick Gregg

Second Assistant Camera (2nd AC):

Billie Baumeister

Camera Trainees

Rachel Kendrick

Sound Mixer:

Padraig Ryan / Eoin Gleeson

Sound Designer:

Padraig Ryan

Composer & Recording Engineer:

Billie Baumeister

Performed by

Violin I, II, Viola - Sophie Shaw

Violin III, Cello, Electric Wurlitzer - Billie Baumeister

Funded by

Arts Council Ireland

Supported by

Dublin Municipal Theatre at Smock Alley and Mermaid Arts Centre

Special Thanks:

Chloe Green, Julie Kelleher, Aoife Demel, Leah Minto Dan Colley and Jack Gibson,

Chris and Derek Gill, Alan Brady

Copyright: © 2026 Future Stories Collective.

In 2025 Cracking Light began collaborating with the Future Stories collective. Future Stories, an 18-month participatory art project, premiered at First Fortnight Festival. It is a new film work by 10 young people with experience of the Irish care system. 

Working with writer Emmet Kirwan, directors Oonagh Murphy and Em O’ Ceallaigh, and film-makers Maeve Stone and Alex Gill, the co-created film captures the unique perspectives of these young artists, the stories behind the numbers.

The film was followed by a conversation - exploring mental health, the care system and the emancipatory power of art.

Oonagh Murphy, Em O’Ceallaigh, Maeve Stone and Alex Gill

THE TEAM