Teatro Nua

Hold Music, live. It’s just like being on the phone!

Padraig Dooney returns to the Boys’ School with his one-man musical odyssey Please Hold, which was developed there during Scene + Heard 2025.

A youngish man occupies a liminal space where he composes hold music and plays it live down the phone to those trapped in purgatorial waiting rooms queuing for customer care and technical support.

The centre of his own epic universe, he treats his audience to a master class on how to create transient soundscapes using nothing more than a saxophone and a load of synths. A one-man tragicomedy about art and delusion, Please Hold will take you on a psychological journey into the oft forgotten liminal world of hold music.

Age Suitability: 16+
Warnings: Strobe lighting / Strong language / References to drug and alcohol abuse

WRITTEN BY Padraig Dooney
DIRECTED BY Giles Brody, originally Sophie Merry
COMPOSITION & SOUND DESIGN BY Padraig Dooney
ASSOCIATE SOUND DESIGN BY Michael Brady
LIGHTING DESIGNER Ciarán Gallagher
LIGHTING OPERATOR Danny Nolan
VIDEOGRAPHER Sophie Merry
PRODUCER Bernie Bourke
CAST Padraig Dooney

PREVIEW TICKETS €16

TICKETS €20 | €18 (Concession)

RUNNING TIME 50 mins

ABOUT THE COMPANY
Teatro Nua was formed in 2022 by Kyron Bourke, Bernie Bourke, and Padraig Dooney. Kyron is a writer/composer/musician/actor who has devoted his life to the arts. Bernie is an educator with a lifelong involvement in theatre who has recently completed the inaugural MFA in Theatre Production at the Lir Academy. Padraig is an actor/musician/writer/composer and Teatro Nua produced his first one-man show with original live music, Please Hold, at the Scene + Heard Festival in February 2025. Together we create and produce innovative, socially conscious, music-infused theatre.