REFUGE
An international collaboration to bring a searing drama from Deirdre Kinahan to life, from the ever ambitious stable that is Fishamble.
Fishamble: The New Play Company
& Staatstheater Mainz
Written by Deirdre Kinahan
“All war… it starts with stories, starts with lies.” Fishamble and Staatstheater Mainz present the Dublin premiere of REFUGE by Deirdre Kinahan. Acclaimed director Jim Culleton leads this Irish/German co-production with an international cast. 1710, Rathkeale, County Limerick. A community flees persecution in Germany and is offered land in Ireland that should never have been given. REFUGE traces their journey and explores the enduring connections between displaced communities of the past and those seeking safety today. It is a thrilling new play that weaves past, present and future: music and magic. Stories of longing, love and loss tear at the human need to find place, a home, a refuge.
YOU’LL LOVE THIS IF YOU LIKED…
Brooklyn, (film) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, (book) Rathmines Road by Deirdre Kinahan, (theatre)
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CYCLONE
ANU return to the festival with an immersion into a lost history that honours boxing history of the North inner city, and challenges ideas on who that history belongs to.
ANU
Written & Directed by Louise Lowe
He stood for nearly half a century outside the GPO. A solitary figure amid the rush of O’Connell Street. Bowler hat. Worn Crombie coat. A sandwich board swaying gently from his shoulders, advertising Nugget boot polish. To the crowds of O’Connell Street, Billy ‘The Cyclone’ Warren was a familiar fixture. They had no idea who he was. Undefeated, Warren’s boxing career took him across America, Australia and Europe. He sparred with Jack Johnson. He ran guns for Michael Collins. And all the while, he carried a secret, one that would shape his destiny to the very end. Cyclone is a blistering new production from ANU, piecing together the extraordinary and untold story of a man who left his mark on Dublin forever.
YOU’LL LOVE THIS IF YOU LIKED…
Raging Bull, (film) Three Castles Burning, (podcast) any of ANU’s shows at Dublin Theatre Festival since 2010, (theatre)
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ANIMALS
This celebration of the deeply unusual character of our daily lives becomes a visual feast; food for the eyes, the mind, the heart and soul.
The Abbey Theatre
From the short stories of Blindboyboatclub, Adapted and Directed by Dan Colley
“The law, Noel. Without it, all of us are animals in the jungle. Killing and eating and riding whatever we think we can get away with.”
Prepare to suspend your disbelief. Then let it dissolve completely. Unstable realities resemble our wildest imagination in this absurdist spectacle — writ large and set loose on the national stage. ANIMALS is a riotous and kaleidoscopic world-premiere commissioned by the Abbey Theatre and based on the critically acclaimed short fiction of award-winning Irish writer Blindboyboatclub, adapted by Dan Colley. The bizarreness of life is unmasked in this roaring and roaming new work that wonders aloud if the rowdy kids down the back of class might have been onto something all along.
YOU’LL LOVE THIS IF YOU LIKED…
Severance, (TV) The Lobster, (film) the books of Kevin Barry, (book) The Blindboy Podcast, (podcast)
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REBELLIOUS HOPE
Phillip Connaughton conjures a joy in movement that aches with longing, memory and mischief.
Company Philip Connaughton & Once off Productions
Created, Choreographed and Directed by Philip Connaughton
Choreographer Philip Connaughton brings together seven internationally acclaimed dancers aged 46 to 86 and renowned composer-musician Mel Mercier for a striking new live performance charged with presence, urgency and defiance. Combining dance, live music and personal testimony, Rebellious Hope offers a rare encounter with performers whose vulnerability and virtuosity are shaped by decades of lived experience. Rebellious Hope explores endurance, desire, memory and asks what remains, what endures and what compels us to carry on.
YOU’LL LOVE THIS IF YOU LIKED…
Fosse Verdon, (TV) That They May Face The Rising Sun, (film) On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, (book)
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