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Scene + Heard 2025 Week One (Thu 13 – Sun 16 Feb)

Visual art EXHIBITION
Myra Jago | Sorca O’Farrell | Aisling McEntee Walsh | Karen Ebbs
Thu 13 Feb – Sat 1 Mar | Banquet Hall

Myra Jago
Myra Jago’s oil paintings look at the Human condition and our attitudes toward the Earth and each other. Leaning heavily into the still life tradition, she embeds ideas around identity and ownership within folds of silky fabric, using beauty to open up conversations on social, political and identity issues. Her Earth paintings of silky maps and Pangaea now extend to another surface subject, that of Human skin tone. Each titled US in a different language, these works aim to flip negative issues of human identity and ‘othering’ toward a celebration of the beauty and harmony present within our Human diversity. Visit website | follow @myra.jago

Sorca O’Farrell
Sorca O’Farrell is inspired by place and memory as she walks along the paths and through the forests close to her home. For the past few years her attention has been particularly drawn to various groups of trees, how they inter-act with each other, and how they connect and sometimes dominate the environment around them. She is struck by their very permanence, and how they represent stability and durability in an otherwise ever-changing environment. They evoke feelings of safety and a connection to the world. Her work aims to convey these feelings and to invite the viewer into this place. Visit website | follow @sorcaofarrell

Aisling McEntee Walsh
Aisling McEntee Walsh works in abstraction, where the physical act of painting becomes one with the finished piece. Through this genre, she freely releases her unconscious mind, allowing for spontaneous possibilities and new departures through her expressive application of oil paint. A recurring theme in Aisling’s work is the exploration of the feminine and Woman as Goddess, where subliminal undertones of dream/awake and flight/escape states languish within her layers of paint. Aisling’s career began in the USA as a Scenic Artist in NYC, designing international interiors and stage sets. She has been a practising artist for over twenty years. Visit website | follow @aislingmcew

Karen Ebbs
Painting and colour are central to my expanded, process-led practice. Through making work and installations, I explore the idea that life is not a linear procession moving directly towards a “known” set goal. Life is rather a series of continuous spirals, a search for purpose and the numinous while being conscious of our mortality. Life is a messy labyrinth of course corrections and perceptual shifts while accumulating beliefs and knowledge. Core areas of my research focus on how perception occurs, how perceptions are, in fact, “best guesses” and on how all things come into existence through interconnection, r relationship and interaction. Visit website | follow @karen.ebbs

block 1
dance

Please Break my Heart

It’s how the greats make masterpieces?

 

Thu 13 + Fri 14 Feb | 6:30pm | Main Space

NAF Dance

Giddily marching towards a broken heart to understand what this endless pit of inspiration for makers is. It’s how you make a good piece, right?

CHOREOGRAPHED, PRODUCED + PERFORMED BY Nóra Ní Anluain Fay
TECHNICIAN Dean O’Sullivan
SOUND DESIGN BY Tiên Lê

Running Time : 20 mins

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MUSIC / THEATRE / STAND-UP

PERFECTIONISTÁ

A musical scéal of mediocre perfectionism

 

Thu 13 + Fri 14 Feb | 6:30pm | Main Space

Louisa Ní Éideáin

A camp musical ode to women who were promised it all and now are victims of human shrinkflation. Tá an seó i nGaeilge & i mBéarla.

WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY Louisa Ní Éideáin
DIRECTED BY Franziska Detrez
PRODUCER Amy van den Broek
LIGHTING DESIGN BY Matt Burke
PR Sarah Murphy
LIGHTING TECHNICIAN Ciarán Graham
PHOTOGRAPHY BY Vlad Vasilescu

Running Time : 25 mins

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theatre

Away From Keyboard

Job Description: ideal woman.

 

Thu 13 + Fri 14 Feb | 6:45pm | Boys’ School

David Donovan

At the dawn of the internet age, two men get jobs as women in this true story about the Wild West of internet chat rooms.

WRITTEN BY David Donovan
DIRECTED BY Nessa Matthews
PRODUCER Kathleen Cawley

Running Time : 25 mins

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theatre

Pink Parts

The walls are closing in

 

Thu 13 + Fri 14 Feb | 6:45pm | Boys’ School

Alicky Hess

Trapped in her shrinking pink apartment, Sophie battles leaks, Mozart-loving neighbours, and existential dread. A surreal comedy about identity, eviction, and overdue arrivals.

Warnings: Language – not suitable for young children

PRODUCER Tessa Walsh
WRITTEN BY Alicky Hess
DIRECTED BY Samantha Cade

Sophie – Danii Byrne
Ensemble – Gavan O’Connor Duffy
Directions – TBC

Running Time : 20 mins

block 3
theatre / sketch comedy / music

Bird Face, but it’s a mask

Isolation. Belonging. Identity. One particular Bird.

 

Thu 13 + Fri 14 Feb | 8pm | Main Space

Charisma Check

Recounted in Charisma Check’s genre-spanning style, we go deep and weird on Identity vs. Anonymity, online communities, and the importance of finding your flock.

Warnings: Violence, Not Suitable for Children

WRITTEN BY Jae O’Connor
DIRECTED BY Jessy Danner
CAST Jae O’Connor, Jessy Danner, Tom Duffy, Conor Duffy
PRODUCER Tom Duffy

Running Time : 20 mins

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sketch comedy

Coconut Bit

This is stand-up about sound design.

 

Thu 13 + Fri 14 Feb | 8pm | Main Space

Michael Sullivan

This is stand-up about sound design. This is stand-up about sound design. This is s̵tand̶-up about s̵o̷un̴d̷ design. This is s̵t̷a̸nd̶-up about s̵o̴̬u̶͑nd̵͍̔ design. This is s̵̷̬t̸̀a̸̚ṅ̷d̵̶-uṕ̶̓ a̵b

WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY Michael Sullivan
DIRECTED BY Stephen Bradley
PRODUCED BY Faith Olasogba

Running Time : 20 mins

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theatre

Something Up Ahead

Bated breath beneath our feet

 

Thu 13 + Fri 14 Feb | 8:15pm | Boys’ School

Modest Odyssey

Due to an unknown incident, a late-night train has stopped somewhere underground forcing two passengers to contend with seemingly differing personalities amidst a rising claustrophobia.

Warning: Not suitable for children

WRITTEN + DIRECTED BY Keith James Walker

Running Time : 20 mins

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theatre / comedy

Mercury Rising

Perhaps just one more bite…

 

Thu 13 + Fri 14 Feb | 8:15pm | Boys’ School

Niall Johnson

Drama! Intrigue! Mercury poisoning! Seek shelter from the relentless storm in this goofy comedy where reality bends, sanity breaks, and the tunafish sing!

Warning: Not Suitable for children, possible strobe lighting, audience interaction

WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY Niall Johnson
DIRECTED BY Jamie Sykes
PRODUCER Victoria Moonan
SOUND BY Michael Brady

Running Time : 20 mins

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theatre

I had a dream I shot you in the head… but the calibre wasn’t very big

Breakup? No. Just see other people.

 

Thu 13 + Fri 14 Feb | 9:30pm | Main Space

SaltWater Theatre

It’s a love story… we swear. Him and Her open their relationship to every average Joe and Jo and Joey and Joseph and Josephine.

WRITTEN + DIRECTED BY Conor Kelly
PRODUCER Amélie Bates
PERFORMED BY Alison Kinlan, Eimhin Fitzgerald Doherty, and Penny Morris
MUSIC COMPOSITION BY John McMurray
COSTUME DESIGN BY Eimear Hussey

Running Time : 20 mins

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sketch comedy

GRINDSET

The Peak & PeerlessTM Grindset Mindset Seminar

 

Thu 13 + Fri 14 Feb | 9:30pm | Main Space

O’Sullivan & Zimmermann

Learn how to perfectly optimise your life in this seminal masterclass.
Delivered by George Peak and Steve Peerless, two men who absolutely have it together.

WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY Steve Bennett, Aisling Farrell, Aidan O’Sullivan, Richard Zimmermann.
PRODUCER Victor Bible

Running Time : 25 mins

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theatre

Big Yellow Letters

For the love of a child.

 

Thu 13 + Fri 14 Feb | 9:45pm | Boys’ School

Speckintime

When riots unexpectedly erupt in Dublin, a young mother seizes the chance to flee her violent partner.

Warning: Not suitable for children

WRITTEN BY Melissa Nolan
DIRECTED BY Kathleen Warner Yeates
PRODUCED BY Speckintime

Running Time : 20 mins

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stand-up comedy

Lock Up Your Uncles

Lock em up or lose em

 

Thu 13 + Fri 14 Feb | 9:45pm | Boys’ School

Taran O’Sullivan

Taran is on the hunt for Ireland’s hottest Uncle—or Uncles; she’s not picky.
After years of guesswork with men, she’s laser-focused this time.

WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY Taran O’Sullivan

Running Time : 20 mins

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theatre

The Land That Never Was

A conman sells a fake country

Sat 15 Feb | 1pm | Boys’ School

Liam Rees

1820. Gregor MacGregor sold a country that didn’t exist.
2025. Liam Rees can’t stop lying to tourists.
Part confessional storytelling. Part TED Talk. Mostly bullshit.

Warning: Some audience interaction

WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY Liam Rees
PRODUCED BY Megan Flynn + Fiona Murray

Running Time : 60 mins

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theatre / music

LEONORA

This is not a biopic.

 

Sat 15 + Sun 16 Feb | 2pm | Main Space

Gift Horse Theatre

Leonora Carrington’s recipe for erotic dreams – Ingredients:
Three white hens
Head of garlic
Four kilos honey
A mirror
A brick
Hats to taste

A work-in-progress.

DIRECTED BY Signe Lury
PERFORMED BY Elishka Lane
COMPOSITION + MUSIC BY Cian Malin and Daniel O’Brien
PRODUCER Sinéad Gallagher
COSTUME DESIGN BY Mae Leahy
SET DESIGN BY Saoirse O’Shea
LIGHTING DESIGN BY Eimear Conroy
PRODUCTION MANAGER Amy Wyley

Image: “Self-Portrait (Inn of the Dawn Horse)” by Leonora Carrington
With thanks to Fionntán Larney, Doris de Vries, and Blaithín Ward.

Running Time : 20 mins

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theatre

The New Warrior

A story you thought you knew

 

Sat 15 + Sun 16 Feb | 2pm | Main Space

Melia Theatre Company

The son of Achilles sets out to finish what his father started, but what exactly are they fighting for? Based on untrue events, probably.

WRITTEN + DIRECTED BY Mark Anthony O’Reilly
PRODUCER Robert Downes
SOUND BY Morgan Cooke
CAST Ceara Carney, Michael Heavey, Morgan Cooke, Sodiq Ajibola Abiola

Running Time : 25 mins

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theatre

It’s F-

My Name’s Beatrice, I’m not F-

 

Sat 15 + Sun 16 Feb | 3pm | Boys’ School

Ishbel Clarence-Ray

Have you been disregarded in your healthcare? Told you are “Fine”?
Find it hard to say you aren’t?
You are a woman. Congratulations.

Warning: Not Suitable for Children / Language

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Ishbel Clarence-Ray
PERFORMED BY Heather Marshall, Rebecca Ngoie, Will Farren
SOUND + LIGHTING DESIGN BY Eva McCartney
PRODUCER Ellie Lee Henry

Running Time : 15 mins

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theatre / physical theatre / comedy

An Impulsive Absorption of Everything

Like everything you’ve seen before? Maybe..

 

Sat 15 + Sun 16 Feb | 3pm | Boys’ School

Eoin Wickham

Life imitates art they say, Jack takes this a bit too literally. He tries to be everything in just 15 minutes. What could go wrong?

WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY Eoin Wickham
DIRECTED BY Letizia Delmastro
PRODUCER Aidan O’Sullivan

Running Time : 15 mins

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theatre / music / dance

Play it Again

Dating, Dancing, Drama And Big Suz.

 

Sat 15 + Sun 16 Feb | 4pm | Main Space

Nathan Doyle + Commit to the Bit Entertainment

When Josh’s world seems to fall apart his best friend Susan is there to catch him fall. Until he catches feelings for the wrong guy… Again.

Warning: Flashing Lights / Sexual Assault

WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY Nathan Doyle
DIRECTED BY Emily Lagacé
PRODUCER Charlene Barry Gleeson
CHOREOGRAPHER Clara Sinclair
LIGHTING DESIGN BY Conor Bustas
SOUND DESIGN BY Ultan De Stáinleigh
STAGE MANAGER Saoirse Carey
DRAMATURG Susannah Al Fraihat
MAKE UP Megan Doyle
PHOTOGRAPHER Kamilla Koed Fenger
CAST Odette O’Beirne, Richard O’Leary, Christopher O’Shaughnessy, Callan Cummins

Running Time : 25 mins

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dance / circus / drag

Love Me Do

Drag….meets Clown…. meets Dark Humour

 

Sat 15 + Sun 16 Feb | 4pm | Main Space

Elysia Mc Mullen

Love lost, humanity gone—will the audience offer kindness or push her deeper into the void?

Warning: Not suitable for children or the faint hearted. May contain nudity

DIRECTED + PERFORMED BY Elysia Mc Mullen
PRODUCER Elysia Mc Mullen
OUTSIDE EYE Helena Araujo
STAGE HAND Jacob Anderson
LIGHTING DESIGNER Fiachra Ó Laigheanáin

Running Time : 20 mins

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theatre / music

my “best” friend left me in the river with my uilleann pipes to die

Gig theatre meets its watery end.

 

Sat 15 + Sun 16 Feb | 6:30pm | Main Space

Bradán

What do disability, burnout, and the Toad Man all have in common? They want to harvest our souls. From Axis Green Arts Award winners 2022.

Warnings: Loud Noises

WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY Kate Bauer + James Ireland
PRODUCER Orla Devlin
IMAGE BY Simon Geaney

Running Time : 25 mins

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theatre

Alejandro reads a poem

Once again, from the top!

 

Sat 15 + Sun 16 Feb | 6:30pm | Main Space

Alejandro Niklison

In this absurd dark comedy, Alejandro reads a poem. But fate has other plans… A poetic exploration of immortality, God, and the nature of performance.

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Alejandro Niklison
FIGHT COORDINATOR Conor Duffy
CAST Alejandro Niklison, Morven Cameron, Stephen Rush, Theo Dennis

Running Time : 20 mins

block 12
music performance

Shaving Ysbaddaden

Two Bards Weave an Epic Tale

 

Sat 15 + Sun 16 Feb | 6:45pm | Boys’ School

Poems Ago

Culhwch, King Arthur’s cousin, embarks on impossible quests with his crew to win the daughter of Ysbaddaden, King of Giants, in this Celtic song cycle.

COMPOSED AND PERFORMED BY Juliana Hahn and Remco Jacobs
PRODUCER Alison O’Keeffe
IMAGE BY Juliana Hahn + Vivi Suthathip

Running Time : 25 mins

block 12
theatre

Late Night Station

Two guards, one hellish problem.

 

Sat 15 + Sun 16 Feb | 6:45pm | Boys’ School

Andy Crook / The Corps Ensemble

Two incompetent security guards have been tasked with guarding the un-guardable. A dark comedy about true-ish stories and their not-so-funny consequences.

Suitable for ages 14+

WRITTEN BY Andy Crook
DIRECTED BY Jed Murray
PRODUCER Hillary Dziminski
PERFORMED BY Andy Crook, Eric O’Brien & Gemma Allan

Running Time : 20 mins

block 13
theatre

AMSTERDAM

An anxious love story

 

Sat 15 + Sun 16 Feb | 8pm | Main Space

Made Up Productions

Two friends (who definitely aren’t in love with each other) arrive in Amsterdam; the city of drugs, sex and romance. What could possibly go wrong?

WRITTEN BY David Rawle
DIRECTED BY Eftychia Spyridaki
STAGE MANAGER Aimee Crilly
LIGHTING DESIGN BY Archer Bradshaw
COSTUME DESIGN BY Dara Gill
POSTER DESIGN BY Alexandra Ni laoghaire & Deirdre Rawle
SOUND DESIGN BY Inner D.
PRODUCER Katerina Mullalli
PERFORMED BY Hannah Brady and David Rawle

Running Time : 20 mins

block 13
improv comedy

The Tiny Lock-In

Wherever you choose, they’re trapped!

 

Sat 15 + Sun 16 Feb | 8pm | Main Space

TINY Improv

Help! We’re locked in improvised chaos! One of Ireland’s longest running-improv teams brings their infectious comedic style to the explosive Lock-in! The audience choose the location, Tiny try to get out!

CAST Luke Benson, Mark Cantan, Pearl O’Rourke, Camille Lucy Ross, Kelly Shatter
PRODUCER Anna Brady

Running Time : 25 mins

block 14
theatre

FANNY RIOT

Flames, Fannies, Focals, Magic, and Hope…

 

Sat 15 + Sun 16 Feb | 8:15pm | Boys’ School

Lisa Walsh

A raw, funny and poetic solo ride through the Dublin riot, encountering love, loss, focal na mban, madness, kindness, a bearded clam and ultimately hope.

Suitable for ages 16+

WRITTEN BY Lisa Walsh
DIRECTED BY Kathleen Warner Yeates
PERFORMED BY Kelly Hickey

Running Time : 20 mins

block 14
theatre

Siege

A darkly absurd comedy of desperation.

 

Sat 15 + Sun 16 Feb | 8:15pm | Boys’ School

Kettle of Fish

Set in 1690s Ireland, Siege follows a hapless prince and a reckless jester as they hilariously outwit starvation and death in a besieged castle.

WRITTEN BY Jason Kennealy
DIRECTED BY John Morton
PRODUCER Eimear Frew
LIGHTING DESIGN BY Ciaran Gallagher
CAST Eimear Frew, Gráinne Kavanagh

Running Time : 25 mins

block 15
theatre / music / poetry / stand-up comedy / clown

DADA DOJO

Imagine Beckett & Monty Python on Buckfast.

Sat 15 Feb | 9:30pm | Main Space

Paul Victor Currie

Dadaism is now more needed and more relevant in art than ever. Dada Dojo wrestles with the A to A of humanity (Alzheimer’s to Apartheid).

WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY Paul Victor Currie

Running Time : 45 mins

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theatre / contemporary circus

The Dirt on Your Shoe

Enter the lair of the worm

Sat 15 Feb | 9:45pm | Boys’ School

Moss Russell

What happens to those deemed too strange, too unpalatable? Welcome to the neon absurdity of Deirdre’s hermitage.

WRITTEN BY Moss Russell and Ian Lynam
PERFORMED BY Moss Russell
MUSIC BY Toby Eaton (Wiggle)
PRODUCER Ciara O’Mahony

Running Time : 40 mins

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rehearsed reading

TRAPPED

Trapped Boss, employee’s motives darken.

Sun 16 Feb | 1pm | Boys’ School

Gripping Media with Linda Teehan

Stacy finds her boss trapped in a toilet cubicle. Feigning assistance, her motives darken. Is escape truly possible, or is Stacy orchestrating her Boss’s downfall?

Warnings: This production includes discussions of adoption, gambling and bullying

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Linda Teehan
PRODUCER Lorna Fitzsimons
CAST Geraldine McAlinden, Anna Winifred

Running Time : 80 mins

block 18
rehearsed reading

HOTERU ホテル (HOTEL)

To Hell, or to Osaka.

Sun 16 Feb | 4:30pm | Boys’ School

Pleasure Wellies Theatre Co.

HOTERU (“Hotel”) is a deconstructed travelogue play. Colm heads to Japan for purpose and renewal, only to face himself in ways he hoped to avoid.

Warnings: Mental Health, Alcohol

WRITTEN, DIRECTED, DEVELOPED + PERFORMED BY Emmet Byrne + Nicholas Fitzgerald.
PRODUCED AND DESIGNED BY Aline Aronsky.

Running Time : 40 mins