BLOCK 21: Noel

[themecolor]Some voices can’t be switched off[/themecolor]

Stephen Maguire

TUES 20 + WED 21 FEB @ 6:15PM

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A couch, a shared can at 4am, a now-distant friendship. Everything’s a bit wavy, in more ways than one…

As the pressure of social constructs catch up on mature student Oscar, his anxiety takes over resulting in a battle of do’s and don’ts, should haves and could haves. Will he pull through or fall victim to his own worst enemy, Himself.

Written by: Stephen Maguire
Performed by: Brian Moore + Eamonn McNicholas.

Genre: Theatre
Space: Boys’ School

BLOCK 21: Godot

[themecolor]Two old friends attempt a roadtrip[/themecolor]

Flying Bird

TUES 20 + WED 21 FEB @ 6:15PM

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Godot and Bosco start out on a trip. They start to argue and as old resentments surface, their friendship breaks down, with dangerous consequences for both men, and their families.

Written by: Fergus Anthony
Directed by: Paul Winters

Genre: Theatre
Space: Boys’ School

BLOCK 22: I Am Man

[themecolor]What the hell is a Lumbersexual?[/themecolor]

Good Buzz Productions

TUE 20 + WED 21 FEB @ 6.30PM

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Join us as, together, we learn how to be the perfect personification of ‘Man’.
Should you grow a beard? How should you treat women? How deep is too deep when it comes to a V neck t-shirt? Answers to these questions and more you didn’t even know to ask for this special once off performance of the ‘no man show’, I Am Man’.

I Am Man has been over 3 years in development and we want to finally, once and for all, put an end to the global debate;
What the hell is a Lumbersexual?

Written & Directed: Stephen Tadgh

Genre: Theatre
Space: Main Space

BLOCK 22: ESCAPEGOAT

[themecolor]Killer Goats. Experts in their field.[/themecolor]

Nevertheless Productions

TUE 20 + WED 21 FEB @ 6.30PM

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ESCAPEGOAT is a play about two killer goats in a rainforest made out of children’s toys. It is also a true story.

Produced by: Austin Holt
Written by: May Treuhaft-Ali
Graphic Design by: Shelby West

Genre: Theatre
Space: Main Space

BLOCK 23: There’s Gonna Be A Shootout!

[themecolor]Cowboys, whores, and packets of crisps[/themecolor]

Charisma Check

TUES 20 + WED 21 FEB @ 7.45PM

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Welcome, Stranger, take a load off. Please abide the following:
-No hat, no boots, no service
-Horses securely tied outside
-Payment in advance
-BYOB
-No money, no touchy
Signed,
D, E, & W

Written by: Jessy Danner
Directed by: James M. O’Connor
CAST: Connie Doona, Daniel McDermott, Jessy Danner, Louis Deslis, Tom Duffy
Produced by: Angel Hannigan

Genre: Theatre
Space: Boys’ School

BLOCK 23: Edward Estlin C

[themecolor]The story of a virgin eating couscous[/themecolor]

Jamie Sykes

TUES 20 + WED 21 FEB @ 7.45PM

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In 1917 e.e. Cummings is a free man. He eats couscous. He writes poetry. He thinks of his time in prison. He is a virgin. At least for now.

Written + Performed by: Jamie Sykes

Genre: Theatre
Space: Boys’ School

BLOCK 24: Broken

[themecolor]It is not easy to just walk away[/themecolor]

Seventh Land Theatre

TUES 20 + WED 21 FEB @ 8PM

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A light and funny play transforms into a dark and violent piece, showing the life of a woman who screams with her mouth shut

Director: Aggie Baral
CAST: Anna Fox, Jacek Snochowski, Elitsa Dimova
Produced by: Sangam Baral

Genre: Theatre
Space: Main Space

BLOCK 24: Everything on Paper

[themecolor]Like every date, it’s a surprise[/themecolor]

Sarah Jane Woods

TUES 20 + WED 21 FEB @ 8PM

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Remind yourself of the worst first date you’ve been on. We’re glad it’s over too. Now, in this Commedia inspired show, lets watch Meg and Rob go through it instead.

Created + Directed by: Sarah Jane Woods
Produced by: Clodagh Phelan
CAST: Meg O’Brien + Robert Downes

Genre: Theatre
Space: Main Space

BLOCK 25: Click 2 Subscribe

[themecolor]Youtube // Music // Boyfriend – that is all xD[/themecolor]

Rosebuds Theatre Company

TUES 20 + WED 21 FEB @ 9.15PM

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Sarah is 19. She has a camera, a laptop and a ukulele. She wants to take on the world, via YouTube. But is she ready for #Cyberspace?

Written + Performed by: Karen Killeen
Directed + Produced by: Romana Testasecca

Genre: Theatre
Space: Boys’ School

BLOCK 25: AWKWARD

[themecolor]Nice to sleep with you
*MEET you![/themecolor]

BRAVE

TUES 20 + WED 21 FEB @ 9.15PM

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Nervous laughing at funerals. Saying Mum to the wrong mum in the Supermarket. Waving when they weren’t waving at you. Kissing on the lips when it was meant to be the cheek. Come and share an awkward experience or 20 with us. I love you! Shit.

Written by: Amy Kellett

Genre: Theatre
Space: Boys’ School

BLOCK 26: Mental Ink

[themecolor]Does inspiration come from internal struggle?[/themecolor]

Unheard Melodies

TUES 20 + WED 21 FEB @ 9.30PM

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Are we our thoughts? This piece, incorporating movement and dialogue, will deal with how we speak to ourselves and if that is something we are at the mercy of.

Written + Performed by: Hannah O’Brien + Miriam Keegan

Genre: Theatre
Space: Main Space

BLOCK 26: Couch Potato

[themecolor]What gets you out of bed?[/themecolor]

Bearskin Brothers

TUES 20 + WED 21 FEB @ 9.30PM

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Couch Potato is a dark comedy about two brothers who may have never paid their fair share of taxes, but are now facing life’s only other definite: Death.

Written by : Mack Mirahmadi
Directed by : Ciaran Gallagher
Producer : Eva Rowen (Bearskin Brothers)
Sound + Lighting : Colin Doran
CAST : Colm Lennon + Mack Mirahmadi

Genre: Theatre
Space: Main Space

BLOCK 27: Insomnia.

[themecolor]counting sheep is so last year[/themecolor]

NoDrama Theatre

THUR 22 + FRI 23 FEB @ 6.15PM

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A couch, a shared can at 4am, a now-distant friendship. Everything’s a bit wavy, in more ways than one…

As the pressure of social constructs catch up on mature student Oscar, his anxiety takes over resulting in a battle of do’s and don’ts, should haves and could haves. Will he pull through or fall victim to his own worst enemy, Himself.

Written by: Stephen Maguire
Performed by: Brian Moore + Eamonn McNicholas.

Genre: Theatre
Space: Boys’ School

BLOCK 27: Ambrosia’s Oxfam

[themecolor]Remember that time you forgot…?[/themecolor]

Drawn With Strings

THUR 22 + FRI 23 FEB @ 6.15PM

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Tom is lost. This is not a metaphor. And this is why he is here and now. Though “here” and “now” isn’t quite right. Perhaps “where” and “when?” Yes, that will do just nicely.

Written by: Sionnán Ní Nualláin
Designed by: Emily Collins

Genre: Theatre
Space: Boys’ School

BLOCK 28: Pine ¶he Pilcrow

[themecolor]with the LAUNCH of their new EP[/themecolor]

Kevin Murray, Robert Campbell + Hannah Ryan

THUR 22 + FRI 23 FEB @ 6:30PM

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Recommended by Ruby Sessions’ Conor Donovan and in Irish Times How Music Works column for Nialler9, Kevin Murray on piano, Robert Campbell on cello and Hannah Ryan on fiddle have been together since 2015. The trio make gentle, cinematic and melancholic music. The band release their second EP for Scene + Heard 2018 with songs that are both bittersweet and moving, and indicative of the kind of emotion they draw from as a band.

Genre: Music
Space: Main Space

BLOCK 28: Hyde & Seek

[themecolor]What we resist, persists[/themecolor]

Aileen Power

THUR 22 + FRI 23 FEB @ 6:30PM

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Mel’s looking for love, but it doesn’t look back. Mel’s got a friend, but they don’t get along. Mel has a secret, but it won’t stay hidden. A physical comedy about falling in love and getting found out.

Written by: Aileen Power
Directed by: Daniel O’Brien

Genre: Dance
Space: Main Space

BLOCK 29: The greatest outdoors

[themecolor]Homelessness. So hot right now. #2018rising[/themecolor]

Blacklight Productions

THUR 22 + FRI 23 FEB @ 7:45PM

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What happens when the wealthy depose the destitute to ‘go homeless’? This irreverent farce puts a culture of exposure on trial – from politicians to digital divas. Come look. They want you to!

Written by: Charlotte Hamel
Directed by: Charlotte Hamel + Cliodhna McAllister

Genre: Theatre
Space: Boys’ School

BLOCK 29: DAFT

[themecolor]Expensive and filthy! I’ll take it[/themecolor]

Joe Wright

THUR 22 + FRI 23 FEB @ 7:45PM

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Renting prices in Ireland are so ridiculous. So are the stories that come along with them. They’re DAFT.

Written by: Joe Wright
Directed by: Emily Matthews
CAST: Aoibheann Mc Caul, Emily Matthews + Joe Wright

Genre: Theatre
Space: Boys’ School

BLOCK 30: Radio Bla Bla

[themecolor]A pop music colonoscopy.[/themecolor]

Radio Bla Bla

THUR 22 FEB @ 8PM

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In this live podcast, a DJ, a musician and an academic fight to save their favourite pop songs from obscurity.

Three battling perspectives on the songs you had almost forgotten.

Written + harrumphed by: Jack Cawley, Kevin McGee + Paul Webster

Genre: Panel / Music / Poscast
Space: Main Space

BLOCK 31: Jake & Jess

[themecolor]These secrets, they’ll drown us.[/themecolor]

Cuckoo Lane Productions

THUR 22 FEB @ 9.15PM + SAT 25 FEB @ 6.15PM

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Best friends. They share everything. Bleak, chilling and streaked with dark humour, take a journey inside the insidious friendship of Jake and Jess where the foundations of friendship melt and buckle when lost secrets surface.

Written by: Andy Leech
CAST: Conor Hanley + Katy Leech
Directed + Produced by: Robbie O’Raw
Stage Manager: Emily Duignan
Photography: Pavel Sedlacek

Genre: Theatre
Space: Boys’ School

BLOCK 31: Rape HaHa!

[themecolor]Is Rape Ever A Joke?[/themecolor]

Balter Productions

THUR 22 FEB @ 9.15PM + SAT 25 FEB @ 6.15PM

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The Shell To Sea ‘Rape Tapes’ were born during the arrests of two female Shell To Sea protesters in 2011.
This live art show invites the audience to exam the transcript and decide if rape is ever a joke!

Choreographer: Hannah Bergin
Stage Manager: Saoirse Mc Dermot
Created + Performed by: Sharon Skerritt

Genre: Theatre
Space: Boys’ School

BLOCK 32: Humans in Progress

[themecolor]Two adults playing at adult life.[/themecolor]

Sara Geoghegan

THUR 22 + FRI 23 FEB @ 9.30PM

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Amy, a Celtic tiger cub, was promised a life that no longer exists. Set in the home she has just bought, she is now wondering where to go from here.

Written + Directed by: Sara Geoghegan
Production Manager: Jill Thornton
Lighting Designer: Niamh Cooke-Escapil
CAST: Sue Barrett + Clayton Conroy

Genre: Theatre
Space: Main Space

BLOCK 32: Essex Birds

[themecolor]All feathers and no knickers[/themecolor]

Tiny Octopus

THUR 22 + FRI 23 FEB @ 9.30PM

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Four prattling pigeons sitting on a wire; ruffling feathers and giving it a lot of beak.
Essex birds is a commentary on the self-destructive conversation about women, by women.

Written By : Amy Hughes
CAST : Andrea Bolger, Meg Healy, Amy Hughes + Aoife Spratt
Costume by: Ellen Therese Fleming
Make-up by: Michał Mencnarowski

Genre: Theatre
Space: Main Space

BLOCK 33: Train of Fools

[themecolor]Life always goes off the rails[/themecolor]

Shabadoo

FRI 23 + SAT 24 FEB @ 8PM

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Three strangers encounter the passenger from hell. The end of the line is closer than they think. A comedy about life, death and light rail.

Written + Directed by: Shabadoo
Produced by: Kirsty Murphy
Sound Design by: Andrew Kerr

Genre: Radio / Theatre
Space: Main Space

BLOCK 33: No Amount of Radiohead Could Have Prepared Me for This (Or How I Learned To Stop Trying and Surrender To The Space-Time Continuum)

[themecolor]A cacophony-comedy for the apocalypse.[/themecolor]

Honi Cooke and Richard Durning

FRI 23 + SAT 24 FEB @ 8PM

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Belter and Migloo have thirty minutes to save the world. With a fridge. This is going to go brilliantly.

Written + Performed by: Honi Cooke + Richard Durning

Genre: Theatre
Space: Main Space

BLOCK 34: An Act of Violence

[themecolor]Something happened. And there were consequences.[/themecolor]

Breach & Quinn

FRI 23 + SAT 24 FEB | 9.15PM

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An evening (in the convivial company of renowned raconteurs and bon viveurs Breach & Quinn) goes awry.
Contemporary performance for grown-ups. With a soupçon of stoopid.
And music.
Oh. And talking.

Written + Performed by: Alan Howley + Jack Cawley

Genre: Theatre
Space: Boys’ School

BLOCK 34: IKTAKOP

[themecolor]They want to divide us with walls[/themecolor]

Nolla Collective

FRI 23 + SAT 24 FEB | 9.15PM

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IKTAKOP is a poetic piece of physical theatre; a sublime exploration of the material and symbolic implications of borders against the interconnectivity of the internet.

Devised by: Nolla Collective
Directed by: Onerva Helne
Assistant Directed by: Jen Keating
Produced by: Ryan Fishwick
CAST: Aoife Taylor, Bronagh Kieran + Seán Butler
Lighting + Sound Design by: Leanne Bergin
Visual Art Design by: Deniz Kaya

Genre: Theatre
Space: Boys’ School

BLOCK 35: Hannah Mamalis’ Comedy Brunch

[themecolor]Hannah Tucker Mamalis[/themecolor]

SAT 24 + SUN 25 FEB + SAT 3 MAR @ 12PM

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Feast on the delectable Smock Alley brunch while been entertained by the exquisitely awkward comic timing of Hannah Tucker Mamalis.

Influenced by things that are both odd + humourous, Hannah’s live shows often involve more than just a simple egg hunting.

Written + Performed by: Hannah Tucker Mamalis for Scene + Heard.

Served with a choice of:
Roast Mushrooms on Sourdough Toast w/ Gruyere + Spinach
Eggs in Purgatory w/ Whipped Feta & Parsley, Toast + Leaves
Potato Hash w/ Bacon, Fried Eggs & Smoked Ketchup

Genre: Brunch / Comedy
Space: Banquet Hall

BLOCK 36: A Tempest: A Play in One Act with a Play in Five Acts in it

[themecolor]Rehearsals aren’t going well[/themecolor]

The Crooked Hook

SAT 24 FEB @ 2PM

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What is art? Who can be said to truly own a work of art?
Why did Leanne’s father never hug her?
The answers to these, and more, in A Tempest.

Written by: Ronan Deegan + Pádraig Lohan
Directed by: Ronan Deegan

Genre: Rehearsed Reading
Space: Main Space

BLOCK 37: In Concrete We Drown

[themecolor]A home may be taken but a heart can’t be tamed[/themecolor]

Head Above Water Theatre Company

SAT 24 + SUN 25 FEB @ 3PM

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The forest has always been a safe and magical place where animals and magical creatures live in harmony together but when a unwanted visitor comes along with an idea to destroy their home, will the animals stay and fight or be forced to leave the home they love.
Get ready for adventure, friendship and a lot of heart, as decisions are made that can change everything.

Written by: Conor Duffy
Directed by: Angelene Milne
Assistant Director: Warren Hanley
Stage Manager: Jeff Gibson

Genre: Childrens Theatre
Space: Boys’ School

BLOCK 37: The Curious World of Maggie the Brave

[themecolor]About a little person’s mountainous worry[/themecolor]

ThisThatTheatre

SAT 24 + SUN 25 FEB @ 3PM

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Maggie is completely sick of it: Of hospital visits, of cancelled birthday parties, of having nobody at the end of her seesaw. But is she allowed to feel “sick” of it when she’s as fit as a fiddle and her little brother is the bravest person she knows?

Written by: Lauren O’Toole + Liz Tyndall
Directed by: Liz Tyndall
Produced by: Rebecca Dolan

Genre: Childrens Theatre
Space: Boys’ School

BLOCK 38: 350,650 Hours

[themecolor]Dying was easy, heaven is harder.[/themecolor]

The Human Collective

SAT 24 FEB | 4PM

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Alex wasn’t expecting an afterlife and this one comes with a lot of baggage. There’s sanctimonious Saints, grumpy Guardian Angels and a time limit before things get a lot worse…

Presented by The Human Collective
Written by: Rory Knox
Directed by: Rhiann Jeffrey

Genre: Rehearsed Reading
Space: Main Space

BLOCK 39: Gonne Girl

[themecolor]Gonne and Yeats, without the romance[/themecolor]

Unamused Theatre

SAT 24 + SUN 25 FEB @ 6.30PM

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Was W.B. Yeats a tragic lover, or a guy who didn’t understand the word ‘no’? Maud Gonne presents the unromantic story of being Ireland’s most celebrated – and infamous – muse.

Written by: Annie Keegan
Directed by: Gráinne Holmes Blumenthal
Designed by: Laura McDonagh
Produced by: Rían Hamill
Publicity by: Tim Leech-Cleary
CAST: Eliza Belward, Kiah Ronaldson, Simon Geaney

Genre: Theatre
Space: Main Space

BLOCK 39: PORK

[themecolor]A Dublin riff of Shakespeare’s Hamlet[/themecolor]

Gladeye Productions

SAT 24 + SUN 25 FEB @ 6.30PM

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Pork’s Da’ is kicking up daisies and his money hungry uncle is taking over the family furniture business. Now Pork, under the influence of some dodgy hallucinogenics, must take action!

Written by: Nadine Flynn
Directed by: Lee Wilson

Genre: Theatre
Space: Main Space

BLOCK 40: Vehicle

[themecolor]A lo-fi sci-fi adventure[/themecolor]

Devious Theatre

SAT 24 + SUN 25 FEB @ 7.45PM

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Vehicle is a sci-fi road trip comedy about a human bounty hunter charged with transporting an alien con-woman across the galaxy in a talking space vehicle that is falling apart.

Directed by: Sarah Baxter
Produced by: John Dennehy
CAST: John Doran, Aoife Spratt + Peter McGann

Genre: Theatre
Space: Boys’ School

BLOCK 40: TINS

[themecolor]An itchy tale of determination & dance[/themecolor]

El Beee

SAT 24 + SUN 25 FEB @ 7.45PM

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Nelly will stop at nothing to win the talent show – until she discovers she has head lice. NITS! Nitsy bitsy spiders crawling around her head.
TINS – an adventure through the fantasy world of an itchy 8 year old.

Written + Performed by: Laura Brady
Directed by: Róisín McAtamney
Stage Manager: Sineád Heavin
Photography by: Aoife Herrity
Art Department: Aoibhinn O’Dea
Choreography by: Dagmara Jerzak

Genre: Theatre
Space: Boys’ School

BLOCK 41: I

[themecolor]”I” is a strange loop[/themecolor]

Catagogo Collective

SAT 24 FEB @ 9.30PM + SUN 25 FEB @ 8PM

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What is an “I”? In a world of loops and paradoxes, we try to unravel the mystery of self and discover why we all sometimes struggle to finish the sentence “I am”.

Written + Devised by: Clíona O’Connell + Michele Ann Kelly
Director: Clíona O’Connell
Performed by: Michele Ann Kelly
Produced by: Suzanne Switzer
Sound Design + Music by: Jan Henrik Rau

Genre: Theatre
Space: Main Space

BLOCK 41: Memento Murray

[themecolor]A work (*struck through*) life in progress[/themecolor]

Ste Murray

SAT 24 FEB @ 9.30PM + SUN 25 FEB @ 8PM

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This is a piece about legacy. It’s about living and dying, and the memories made in between. It’s about drinking a soy low fat macchiato one day, and the next day realising that you’re turning 30, that YOU are the macchiato and that the complementary biscotti is actually complementary existential dread.
Memento Murray is is a kaleidoscopic theatrical performance mixing theatre, spoken word, photography, and documentary topped off with the realisation that one day you and everyone you love is going to die. Its about hopeful angst. Stamp that on your loyalty card.

Written + Performed by: Ste Murray
Produced by Katie McCann
Lighting + AV by: John Gunning

Genre: Theatre
Space: Main Space

BLOCK 42: Further Developing your Theatre

[themecolor]In conjunction with the New Works Dept. at Abbey Theatre[/themecolor]

SUN 25 FEB | 2PM

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Further Developing the Work: A look at developing your writing/new work ideas in conjunction with Abbey Theatre New Work Department. Public talk/workshop format on how to frame that work depending on what stage of development it’s at.

Topics covered: the language of collaboration, framing the showcase of a play in development, rewriting and general aspects of the business of writing new work for the stage.

Genre: Talk
Space: Main Space

BLOCK 43: Moon Ballad

[themecolor]Flamenco Music, dance and Lorca’s poetry[/themecolor]

Stage Whispers in Collaboration with Rather Gather

SUN 25 FEB | 4PM

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The performance embodies women’s struggle with identity, freedom of choice, and passion.
Inspired by Lorca’s women in “Blood Wedding” and “The House of Bernarda Alba”, the play re-imagines their life in a wave of poetry, flamenco music and dance.

Directed + Choreographed by: Loli Ros Gordon
Flamenco dancer: Ana Belen Lopez Rodriguez
Flamenco guitarrista: Rubén Portillo
Flamenco singer: Mamen Ruiz
Contemporary Dancer: Lea Weber

Genre: Flamenco
Space: Main Space

BLOCK 44: Fin Divilly + John Cummins

[themecolor]A Musician + a Poetician join forces[/themecolor]

Fin Divilly + John Cummins

SUN 25 FEB | 6.15PM

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Now embarking on a solo career, ‘Liffey Street’, his debut album tells his personal journey over the years, living on this street in the heart of Dublin city.

John Cummins Poetician, one of Ireland’s most unique voices, has brought his spoken word poetry to every corner of our isle.

From festival fields to our national concert hall, John shares poetry that aims to highlight, uplift, and inspire.

His words break down the border between audience and performer.
John’s story is the story of us.

Written + Performed by: Fin Divilly + John Cummins

‘Fin Divilly’s raw lyrics showcase perfectly his colourful character and soulful voice’ – Myles Manley

Genre: Music / Spoken Word
Space: Boys School