Scene + Heard 2026 Week Two
(Tue 17 – Sun 22 Feb)
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MUSIC PERFORMANCE / DANCE / AERIAL THEATRE
DUST
What lies beneath the settled dust?
Sat 21 + Sun 22 Feb | 1pm | Boys’ School
Hannah Scully
An attic-like world filled with cells of the past that overtime are forgotten, placed under-wraps, saved for moments that never arrive. Looking at humanity’s obsession with holding onto things, this show peers behind preservation of objects through intricate aerial choreography.
CHOREOGRAPHY+ PERFORMED BY: Hannah Scully
MUSIC+ PERFORMED BY: Louis Younge
PRODUCED BY: Róisín Harten
OUTSIDE EYE: Rosie Stebbing + Róisín Harten
MENTORED BY: Lee Harry Clayden, Lindsey Butcher, Carolina Cabanas + Chantal McCormack
RESEARCH DOCUMENTATION BY: Jym Daly
Supported by The Irish Aerial Creation Centre 10th Anniversary awarded by Dublin Fringe Festival and Circusful Belfast.
Running Time: 20 mins
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MUSIC / THEATRE
This Is Not a Place of Honour
Your essence has been extracted
Sat 21 + Sun 22 Feb | 1pm | Boys’ School
Teatro Nua
Bray, 2060. A coffee shop entombed with a hidden truth. A dark comedy with added macroplastics.
WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Sophie Merry
DIRECTED, ORIGINAL MUSIC + SOUND DESIGN BY: Padraig Dooney
SOUND BY: Michael Brady
VOICEOVER BY: Sorcha Maguire
PRODUCED BY: Bernie Bourke
Running Time: 20 mins
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REHEARSED READING
Tripartite
Three women, two betrayals, one will
Sat 21 Feb | 2pm | Main Space
Emily Daniel Hilliard
One neglected wife, one mistress and one sex worker unwillingly brought together for a mutual dead lovers will reading. One conclusion must be made before time and patience runs out. Revelations emerge and nothing is as it seems. Be prepared.
Warnings: Mentions of drug use, sexual content and grooming. Not suitable for children.
WRITTEN + DIRECTED BY: Emily Daniel Hilliard
PRODUCED BY: Kyle Laing
CAST: Holly Byrne, Juliet Hill, Keelin Sheppard, Rachel Reid + Ralph Sweetman Sutton
Running Time: 60 mins
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REHEARSED READING
A Labour of Love
Where does imagination end & reality begin?
Sat 21 Feb | 3pm | Boys’ School
Mel Zhu
A dementia diagnosis comes on the cusp of a painter’s chance to re-enter the public eye. When figures from her past re-emerge, everything is fragile. A new play inspired by Euripides’ Medea that asks: what are the limits of empathy?
WRITTEN + DIRECTED BY: Mel Zhu
PERFORMED By: Fiona Bell, Simon Coury, Eavan Gaffney, Aidan Clancy
DRAMATURGY By: Gavin Kostick
Running Time: 60 mins
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theatre / music
All The Things I Thought Were Not Enough
Ravenous for Art! At What Cost?
Sat 21 Feb | 4pm | Main Space
Kellie Marie Reynolds
A demand avoidant creative genius in a madcap showdown between her wild ambition, her neurotype and internalised capitalism. Is she completely unravelling? Or a canary in the coalmines of late stage capitalism, chirping wildly about outdated systems that normalise disfunction?
Warnings: Ages 14+. Contains some emotional scenes and possibly the occasional F Bomb.
WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Kellie Marie Reynolds
DIRECTED BY: Paula McGlinchey
Running Time: 40 mins
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DANCE
|| nrityā sṛṅgara ||
A Kathak odyssey celebrating India’s heritage
Sat 21 + Sun 22 Feb | 6:30pm | Main Space
rāas kathak company
A Kathak piece set to an iconic heritage melody, performed by six dancers. A princess blushes as she awaits her beau, while her friends adorn and tease her. Silks swirl, ghungroos echo and we experience the timeless grace of Kathak
DIRECTED BY: Saloni Jain
PERFORMED BY: Saloni Jain, Shraddha Gurav, Saakshi Thakur, Varsha Varlekar, Kalyani Pawar, AarohiPingalkar, House of Kathak Nritya Dublin
Running Time: 15 mins
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STORYTELLING
A Border Cure
Tell me. What ails ya?
Sat 21 + Sun 22 Feb | 6:30pm | Main Space
Sarah McKenna Dunne
Having spent two years researching traditional cures in the border region, Sarah has a story to tell about what it means to be from a landscape where cures are practiced, but what is the cure of Ireland’s mental health epidemic?
WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Sarah McKenna Dunne
DIRECTED BY: Charlie McGuinness
PRODUCED BY: Leanne Bickerdike
DRAMATURGY BY: Sinead O’Brien
MUSIC DIRECTED BY: Shauna McKenna Dunne
VISUAL DESIGNER BY: Jo Morrigan Black
MUSICIANS: Shauna McKenna Dunne. Ailsa Dixon
Running Time: 25 mins
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THEATRE
BUTCH
Those big old dirty lezzers.
Sat 21 + Sun 22 Feb | 6:45pm | Boys’ School
Crithir Productions
What is a ‘butch lesbian’? What do they look like? Why do they like Subarus so much? YD will answer all in her latest video essay; tracking the history of butch culture from female husband husbands to Leslie Feinberg.
Warnings: Mentions of sexual assault, use of homophobic slurs
PRODUCED BY: Annabelle Comer-Halliwell
WRITTEN + DIRECTED BY: Hannah Bevan
PERFORMED BY: Niamhie Mullarkey
TECH BY: Rebecca Walsh
Running Time: 20 mins
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THEATRE
Mother Bunker!
Stuck in a bunker with you
Sat 21 + Sun 22 Feb | 6:45pm | Boys’ School
Rock Bottom Saloon
For two years, Tina and her son Timm have lived in a cramped bunker to avoid a green mist that turns people into foetuses. When Millie enters their lives, the instability of their routine is exposed. A post-apocalyptic dark comedy.
Warnings: Contains references to violence
PRESENTED BY: Rock Bottom Saloon
CO-WRITTEN + PRODUCED BY: David Monaghan
CO-WRITTEN BY: Fionn Cleary
CO-PRODUCED BY: Eoin Mason
DIRECTED BY: Ferelith Kingston
PROP DESIGN + CO-PRODUCED BY: Niall Keane (GoblinsGoblinsGoblins)
LIGHTING + STAGE DESIGN BY: Conor McGowan
MUSIC + SOUND DESIGN BY: Tobias Barry
CAST: Denny Redmond, Meghan Reid + Sorcha Dawson
POSTER DESIGN BY: Brian Wallace (@bjornism_)
CONCEPT ART BY: Moira Malone
Running Time: 25 mins
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AERIAL THEATRE
Heart Follows Drum
Follow your Heart. Follow the Drum.
Sat 21 + Sun 22 Feb | 8pm | Main Space
Aliza Ali & Carly Wayt
This experimental movement piece is a blend of folklore, costumery, modern dance and aerial arts to explore what’s lost when we hide behind social masks; craving yet missing connection. What does our authentic JOY attract when we shed the mask?
DIRECTED BY: Carly Wayt
CHOREOGRAPHY BY: Aliza Ali
SOUND DESIGN BY: Mark Leahy
LIGHTING DESIGN BY: Owen Eglinton
Running Time: 20 mins
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PHYSICAL THEATRE
Everything Makes A Sound
…but sometimes Mommy just wants silence.
Sat 21 + Sun 22 Feb | 8pm | Main Space
Visceral Impact
Follow a day in the life of a mother and her toddler (a puppet made from household items). Witness the joy, rage, delightful curiosity and unconditional love of motherhood.
CREATED, PRODUCED + PERFORMED BY: Ashley Steed
SOUND DESIGN BY: Aoife Kavanagh
VOICE OVER BY: Kathleen Warner Yeates
PRODUCED BY: Yvonne Ussher
Running Time: 20 mins
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THEATRE
Solas / Solace
Nostalgia is fine, just in moderation.
Sat 21 + Sun 22 Feb | 8:15pm | Boys’ School
Matt McGowan
Matt sits alone in a lighthouse. Repetitive thoughts & memories flood the room in fragments; discovering what he owes to the past, seeking a place of solace and trying to put a story of loss to rest once and for all.
Warnings: Flashing lights.
WRITTEN, PERFORMED + LIGHTING BY: Matt McGowan
PRODUCED BY: Sarah Wiley
DIRECTED BY: Síofra Brogan
SET DESIGN BY: Ben Moore
SOUND DESIGN BY: Eoin Hannaway
VOICE WORK PROVIDED BY: Terry Keely + Mícheál ó Fearraigh
Running Time: 20 mins
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clown
Harvey Darko
Donnie makes a new (imaginary) friend.
Sat 21 + Sun 22 Feb | 8:15pm | Boys’ School
Francis Breen & Mícheál Ó Fearraigh
Donnie meets Harvey, a six foot rabbit that only he can see, who warns him of the coming end of the world. He has 25 minutes to save the world and maybe he’ll make some new friends along the way!
WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Francis Breen + Mícheál Ó Fearraigh
DIRECTED BY: Charee Monroy
PRODUCED BY: Michael Shannon
TECH BY: Michael Brady
IMAGE BY: Aidan Connolly
Running Time: 20 mins
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theatre
stripped
You’re on in five minutes…
Sat 21 Feb | 9:30pm | Main Space
Jade Pepper
“Where’s my other glove? My pasties are not staying on! I haven’t eaten since twelve!”
All is not well backstage at the burlesque show. These artists are “kind-of-a-big-deal”, baring all for their art!
Warnings: Not suitable for children / profanity / sexual references / partial nudity/ themes of sexual violence
WRITTEN, DIRECTED + PERFORMED BY: Jade Pepper
PRODUCED BY: Ian Lynam
CAST: Emily Bradley, Lórcan Strain + Sparkling Spitfire
POSTER BY: Enya Özcçelik Photography
Running Time: 45 mins
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musical theatre
Moonshine: A prohibition musical
Crime, ‘shine and syncopated time
Sat 21 Feb | 9:45pm | Boys’ School
Penance Theatre
Behind the false ‘pharmacy’ door of the Mute Rooster speakeasy, Frankie and Tom find music, mobsters and a connection they never expected. A jazz-infused story of bootlegging, love and loyalty, under the watchful glow of a city’s unforgiving moon.
DIRECTED BY: Malcolm Bolton
WRITTEN BY: Oisin Cluskey
MUSIC DIRECTED BY: Oisin Cluskey
PRODUCED BY: Geeske Juilfs
CHOREOGRAPHY BY: Saorla O’Dowd + Kate Conneely
CAST: Míde Power, Matt Ryder, Andrei Callana, Malcolm Bolton, Saorla O’Dowd, Kieran Leen, Martin Gallagher, Michaela Arampatzi, Jacqueline Carroll, Michaela Arampatzi
Running Time: 40 mins
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rehearsed reading
A Fight to Remember
He met death. It was awkward.
Sun 22 Feb | 2pm | Main Space
Khaled Sultan
Journeyman boxer Percival, spitting teeth and shattered dreams, is deep in a post-KO existential funk. Too bad for him, Lady Death has a backlog of souls to snatch.. A dark comedy, where one man’s demise is another’s bureaucratic scheduling nightmare.
WRITTEN BY: Khaled Sultan
PRODUCED BY: Ailbhe Kelly
DIRECTED BY: Eftychia Spyridaki
CAST: Gabriel Adewusi, Lea Maas + Ralph Sweetman Sutton
IMAGE BY: Sawsan Sultan
Running Time: 50 mins
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rehearsed reading
As We Drift
Waiting for Godot… but sleep.
Sun 22 Feb | 3pm | Boys’ School
Heather Martin
Set inside the brain of someone trying to fall asleep, As We Drift is an absurdist comedy that explores insomnia and all the thoughts that run through our mind as we lie awake at night.
Warnings: Coarse language.
WRITTEN BY: Heather Martin
DIRECTED BY: Wilson McDowell
PERFORMED BY: Grace Cunningham + Jack Elmore
PRODUCED BY: Belfast Playwrights
Running Time: 50 mins
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theatre
INFINITE MATERIAL ANALYSIS
SEVEN EIGHT NINE SIX STOP CHANGE
Sun 22 Feb | 4pm | Main Space
Michael Lucey
Inspired by John Cage’s use of the Visionary I Ching, the many possible voices and events of INFINITE MATERIAL ANALYSIS are stochastically determined by random chance processes. No control. No agency. No blame. Seven. Eight. Nine. Six. Stop. Change.
WRITTEN + DIRECTED BY: Michael Lucey
DESIGNED BY: Olivia Byrne
STAGE MANAGED BY: Alice Hennessey
SOUND DESIGN BY: Alice Gogarty
CAST: Aoibhe Beaumont-Walsh, Molly Hazzard, Jack Healy, Loulou MacHale + Elliot Nolan
Running Time: 45 mins
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rehearsed reading
lady on the rock
lady, lady, quite contrary, how does –
Sun 22 Feb | 4:30pm | Boys’ School
Jack Maguire
Rehearsed reading of lady on the rock, a fly on the wall tragicomic tale narrated by the iconic Dublin statue. Blending humour with gothic surrealism, the play presents vignettes from Maureen’s life, as observed from her windowsill.
Warnings: Violence, Strong Language, Distressing Scenes, Partial Nudity
WRITTEN + PRODUCED BY: Jack Maguire
DIRECTED BY Nessa Matthews
PERFORMED BY: Liath Hannon
ASSISTANT DIRECTED, CO-PRODUCED + STAGE MANAGED BY: Kennedy Fiorella
LIGHTING, AV + TECH BY: Avram Rosewood
MUSIC BY: Mark Leahy (A Dog Named Cú)
MAKE-UP BY: Aisling Doyle
Running Time: 70 mins
Visual art EXHIBITION
DECENT SKINS X TWISTED MELON
Thu 12 Feb – Sat 28 Feb | Banquet Hall
The Story: Stephen began a documentary project as part of his studies called ‘Decent Skins’ about the skinhead subculture in Dublin. Along the way he met with Glenn, who introduced him to the Dublin Skins Community. Work began with photoshoots at the events and bars where the community meet and socialise. The project consists of Environmental and Studio portraits, along with candid images from social events and still life portraiture of the fashion and music involved within the skinhead scene.
Glenn Brown / Twisted Melon: Glenn is a Dubliner, who works in Painting Gouache and mixed media. He started out as an advertising illustrator in marketing. His move into portraits is a personal project. His recent work has included a series on Locals (Local customers in the Foggy Dew Pub). Glenn’s interest in people, his keen eye for detail formed the kernel of Twisted Melon. Find More of Glenn’s work on Instagram: @twisted_melon
Stephen Mc Quinn – Stephen is a Dublin based photographer and visual artist who works predominantly in Street Photography, Portrait and Documentary Photography. Stephen is currently studying Advanced Photography (Level 6) in Pearse College Crumlin. Find more of Stephens work on Instagram: @blacknwhite_dubliner
