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
block 1
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
block 2
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
block 2
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
block 3
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
block 4
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
block 5
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
block 5
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
block 6
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
block 6
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
block 7
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
block 8
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
block 9
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
block 10
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
block 10
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
block 11
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
block 16
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