“Stirring, Arresting, Darkly Comic Phantasmagoria”
—The Irish Times ★★★★
—The Stage ★★★★
—The Review Hub ★★★★
The Circus Animals’ Desertion sets W.B. Yeats’ romantic notions of nationhood against the flames of nationalism, radicalisation, and xenophobia engulfing the world today. Inspired by the automatic writing experiments of George and Willian Butler Yeats The Circus Animals’ Desertion takes the form of a collective dream poetically told through mask and dance.
Created by Brokentalkers
Devised and directed by Feidlim Cannon and Gary Keegan
Music by Sean Millar
Choreography by Jessica Kennedy
Set design and Masks by Ger Clancy
Costume design by Sarah Foley
Lighting design by Stephen Dodd
Photography by Futoshi Sakauchi
World Premiere at the Dublin Theatre Festival, 2016. A co-production with Project Arts Centre and Mermaid Arts Centre. Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
by Outlandish Theatre Platform in collaboration with ASHTAR Theatre, Ramallah, Palestine.
Meet Noor, a Syrian immigrant who’s fulfilled her dream of becoming an Irish citizen. Her dream turns to nightmare as the Syrian war explodes. Noor’s family is disappearing; imprisoned, murdered, adrift on boats. Based on real life events explored through personal testimony, hear Noor’s story.
World premiere at the Rita Kelly Theatre, at the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital as part of Tiger Dublin Fringe, 2016.
Written and directed by Maud Hendricks
Assistant director Bernie O’Reilly
Set design by Ger Clancy
Sound and video design by Craig Cox
“INSANE! ELECTRIFYING! CHALLENGING!”
—Shane Brothwood, PureMZine
Peter Coonan and Maud Lee star in this staging of a concept album combining twelve pop-styled songs with contemporary choreography to paint a tenderly moving portrait of a fractured family dealing with life after a crisis.
Winner of the Performance Award for experimental theatre created in memory of the director, producer and scriptwriter Romilly Walton-Masters, RECOVERY invites the audience, in near spiritual fashion, to reflect on their own experience of family and the many forms that recovery takes.
Written, Directed and Composed by Zoe Ni Riordain in collaboration with Maud Lee
Produced by Hugh Farrell
Set design by Ger Clancy
Lighting design by Ilo Tarrant
Costume design by Molly O’Cathain
Sound design by Jack Cawley
Sound mixing by Eoin Murphy
Projection design by Neill O’Dwyer
Stage management by Fodhla O’Brien
Photography by Keith Dixon
Created for Live Collision International Festival, 2015, at Project Arts Centre, Dublin. RECOVERY toured to venues around Ireland and to the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris in 2017. Supported by the Arts Council Touring Award and Project Arts Centre.
Using 3D design techniques, Conor McNally’s work examines our ability to perceive the boundary between virtual and physical worlds.
His work is in the permanent collection of the Yeats Society in Sligo, Ireland, and outdoors in the Dolomites UNESCO World Heritage Site, Italy.
McNally’s design work can be seen McLaren’s Speedtail hyper-car, the Lotus Emira, and visual communication for the UNCHR. He is currently Lead Visual Designer at Pininfarina in Turin, Italy.
Commissions:
CIASA: installed in the Dolomites UNESCO World Heritage Site as winner of the SMACH Art Prize, 2019.
WHITE BIRDS FLY: commissioned for the Yeats’ Society’s 50th Anniversary, 2019.
Residencies:
Hawkwood Center for the Future Thinking, 2021.
The Snug is an experimental participatory design project exploring the place and places of conversation in contemporary Ireland.
Led by international arts collective Unqualified Design Studio (Architecture Project Award 2023/24), the project invites communities to come together in the unlikely privacy of a 6x6m popup snug - giving life to a momentary, real-world ‘chat room’.
The Snug debuted in June 2024 at Carlow Arts Festival, hosting a curated talk series examining the relationship between the stories we tell and the spaces where we tell them - and asking what it is that makes us feel connected to each other and the world around us.
Co-creators: Shane Sugrue, Hugh Farrell, Bláthnaid Conroy, Barry Todd, Josh Wilkinson and Caitríona O’Connor
Photography and video: Ste Murray
Funded by the Arts Council of Irelands Architecture Project Award 2023/4.
The Irish Times ★ ★ ★ ★
A radical retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth from her side of hell on Earth. The Eurydice Project explodes this classical tale into a visceral spectacle to unmask the fakery of patriarchal societies.
Written by Joanna Crawley
Directed by Lee Wilson
Composed by Jane Deasy
Set design by Ger Clancy
Costume design by Sarah Foley
Lighting design by Joey Moro
Chief LX John Gunning
Sound mixing by Eoin Murphy
Projection design by Algorithm
Animation by Cormac Murray
Mapping and graphics by Daniel Staines
Movement by Monika Bieniek
Graphic design by Conor McNally
Photography by Joey Moro
Cast: India Mullen, Barry McKiernan and Michael-David McKernan
Musicians: Ena Brennan, Alex Petcu and Rachel NiChuinn
Presented at Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 2016 with support from the Arts Council of Ireland.
“The standout of these seven tracks is the swoonsome, soaring Tides, which is one of the most uplifting songs we’ve heard all year. This gem of an album may fly under your radar, but it really shouldn’t.”
Lauren Murphy: The Irish Times
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The Irish Mail on Sunday ✭✭✭✭
The Thin Air ✭✭✭✭
Caimin Gilmore: Guitar and vocals
Shane Sugrue: Fender Rhodes and vocals
Kevin Corcoran: Piano, keyboards and vocals.
Dominic Mullan: Drums
Daniel Bodwell: Double bass
Kate Ellis: Cello
Lisa Dowdall: Viola
Una O’Kane: Violin
Listen here:
https://suncollective.bandcamp.com/album/sun-collective
Album launch presented by Homebeat at D-Light Studios, 2017.
Lighting design by John Gunning and Cillian McNamara
Videography and stills by Rosie Barrett
Kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland Music Project Award.
