Louis Deslis
Following on from a Dublin Fringe run and a Fishamble New Writing Award nomination, Louis Deslis brings his show Mosaic, back to Smock Alley where it all started. A Franco-Irish tale of craic, joie de vivre, and everything in between. Mosaic was first developed at the Scene and Heard festival.
Shit just got real, c’est la merde, the real big merde. You just broke up with your fella. Your hard-of-hearing granny’s got a broken leg and it’s your turn to go mind her because she can’t get on the commode chair all by herself. Home Sweet Home, you can’t say that in French, you can’t say Maison Douce Maison.
A show about going home, the things we can’t say, and the things we hear even when they’re not said.
‘An enjoyable one-man odyssey that deftly explores the power of words to obscure and reveal.’ – The Irish Times
Warnings: References to mental health and strong language
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY Louis Deslis
DIRECTED BY Lee Coffey
TICKETS €18 | €16 (CONCESSION)
PREVIEW / MATINÉE TICKETS €16
RUNNING TIME 55 mins
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Louis Deslis is an actor and writer. He trained as an actor at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin and at the Conservatoire Jean-Phillipe Rameau in Dijon. He has acted and written in both French and English. Louis won the Little Gem Award for his play Patchwork at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2019. Patchwork was developed at Scene and Heard 2019 before being taken on by RedBear Productions and directed by Tracy Martin at the Project Arts Centre. His second play Mosaic, directed by Lee Coffey, was developed at the Scene and Heard festival and premiered at the Dublin Fringe 2023 where it had a sold out run and was nominated for the Fishamble New Writing Award.
Louis is currently playing the role of Lafayette in the Canal+ and BBC series Marie-Antoinette. He is also touring France with Toulouse-based theatre company L’AN 01 in their show X, Y et moi? Selected screen and stage credits include The Serpent Queen on Starz, Rouge Toujours! on Arte and Sensoria for Aethernum Creatives, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet with the GSA, Joe Good in Fishamble’s Inside the GPO, Augustus Allweather in Katy McCann’s Bookworm and Nathaniel in Taming of the Shrew by Fortune Fools.
Lee Coffey is a writer and director from Dublin. He is the Creative Director of award winning theatre company Bitter Like A Lemon, which is currently the theatre company in residence in The Civic Theatre. Lee’s directing credits include the award winning Oh, Brother by Callum Maxwell (Dublin Fringe, National Tour); Mosaic by Louis Deslis (Dublin Fringe Fishamble New Writing Award Nominee) and The Kiss by Jimmy Murphy. Lee is currently developing a number of screen projects and is under commission from several theatre companies, both in Ireland and abroad. He will première two new plays in 2025.