Comedy Duologues for Irish Actors

This is a hand-picked collection of comedy duologues for actors in Ireland. Irish auditions — for The Lir Academy, the Gaiety School of Acting and Bow Street, as well as screen casting in Dublin — favour material with genuine emotional stakes and a strong sense of voice. A well-chosen contemporary piece in your own accent often lands harder than a borrowed one.

Comedy in the audition room is about commitment and specificity, not "being funny". Look for pieces with a clear status game or escalating problem, and play the stakes completely seriously — the laughs come from the character meaning every word. A duologue lives on genuine listening and a real relationship between two people, so choose a scene where both characters want something specific from each other.

For The Lir or the Gaiety School of Acting, lean into pieces with real specificity of place and relationship — work that shows you can inhabit a character rather than perform an idea of one.