The SEEDS II Showcase
New Theatre Works by New Theatre Artists
Dublin Fringe Festival 2005: September 26 October 2
Facilitated by Rough Magic Theatre Company, Seeds II was a structured development initiative for emerging playwrights and directors.
Launched in March 2004, SEEDS II comprised eighteen months of mentoring, readings, workshops and international research trips.
The programme culminated during the 2005 Dublin Fringe Festival with the SEEDS II SHOWCASE featuring three fringe productions produced and directed by the SEEDS II directors alongside public readings of the new plays developed during the process. A panel discussion at the end of the showcase interrogated the strengths and weaknesses of SEEDS II as a model for further artist development initiatives.
4.48 Psychosis
By Sarah Kane
Directed by Tom Creed
"I had a night in which everything was revealed to me. How can I speak again?"
Sarah Kane died at the age of 27 in 1999, having written five plays which marked her out as one of the most provocative and original voices of her generation.
Her final play, 4.48 Psychosis, is a morbidly funny, bruisingly honest and dazzlingly poetic journey into the depths of depression, love and suicide.
Tom Creed is from Cork. He is joint artistic director of Playgroup and a director of the Everyman Palace Studio, Cork. Recent credits include Dark Week and Soap! (Dublin Fringe 2003) for Playgroup and Crystal for Meridian.
Set and Costume Designer: Deirdre Dwyer
Dramaturg: Lynda Radley
Cast: Siobhan McSweeney, Paul Mulcahy, Hilary O'Shaughnessy
Mon 26 Sept (preview) - Sun 02 Oct - 8.30pm: Matinee: Sat, Oct 01 - 3pm: 75mins
Project Cube, East Essex Street, Temple Bar:
Liliom
By Ferenc Molnar. Translated by Benjamin F Glazer
Directed by Darragh McKeon
Famous for machismo, high living and fast women, Liliom's life is as colourful as the carousel he operates. That's until he falls in love. With Julie about to give birth to their child, he embarks on a robbery as a shortcut to the good life; but he meets a sorry end on a railway embankment encircled by his botched efforts. After a purgatorial confinement, the heavenly judge discharges him to atone for his paternal shortcomings.
First produced in Hungary in 1909, Liliom went on to major international success including a bizarre incarnation as the 1944 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel.
Darragh McKeon is from Co. Offaly and is a graduate of UCD. He has worked for Blue Raincoat and Steppenwolf theatre companies. He is the Artistic Director of Cardboardbox Theatre Company.
Set Designer: Laura Howe
Costume Designer: Sinéad Lalor
Lighting Designer: Nick Mc Call
Music: Jaimie Twoomey, Dereck White
Tue 27 Sept (preview) - Sun 02 Oct: 8.30pm: 120mins
SS Michael & John, 15-19 Essex St West, Temple Bar
Woyzeck
By Georg Büchner. Translated by John Reddick
Directed by Matt Torney
Set in a makeshift side-show tent, a troupe of burlesque players stage their own version of Woyzeck as a dark cabaret.
Buchner's classic drama tells the story of Woyzeck, a downtrodden soldier who is slowly breaking under the burden of intense social pressure. His boss tries to moralise him, his doctor only lets him eat peas, and his wife sleeps with half the regiment.
Featuring songs from the 20s and 30s Berlin cabaret, this production investigates the darker sides of humanity.
Matt Torney is a graduate of Drama from the Beckett Centre in Trinity College. He works as both a theatre and film director. Past credits include 'Faust is dead' and 'Paper Tigers'.
Set and Costume Designer: Laura Howe
Lighting Designer: Sinead Wallace
Musical Director: Hélène Montague
Producer: Ruth McCarthy
Tue 27 Sept (preview) - Sun 02 Oct: 6pm: 75mins
SS Michael & John, 15-19 Essex St West, Temple Bar
Mon - Wed all Tickets €10: Thu - Sun Tickets €15.00 (€12.50 concession)
Booking: 1850 FRINGE (1850 374 643)
Book online at www.fringefest.com
The Bonefire
by Rosemary Jenkinson
As UDA-man Tommy says, Leanne is more like his Ma than his sister. But she's anything but maternal towards his pal Davey and when another woman appears it'll only take a spark to ignite the bonfire. In the build-up to the Twelfth, the pressure cooker is on the boil in this ferocious comedy.
Rosemary Jenkinson lives in Belfast. She was part of Tinderbox's New Writing Hothouse in 2002 and her first collection of short stories was published in
2004.
Sat 01 Oct : 1pm: 90 mins
Snap
By Neil Bristow.
Going stale in the wake of early retirement, Tom and Pam are adopting a daughter, Virginia, to bring variety and light into their long days of double solitaire. But the fresh wind she brings into their dreary home unsettles more than just the dust on their armchairs.
Neil Bristow is 26 years old and resident in Dublin. ÔSnap' is his second play.
Sat 01 Oct: 3pm: 90 mins
The Onion Game
by Bryan Delaney
Onion and Pearl are miserably married. As Onion writes the Great Irish Novel and Pearl covers the house in beads, they secretly plot each other's ruin. A grotesque black comedy of treachery, revenge, literature and onions.
Bryan's first play, The Cobbler, was produced this year by The Irish Classical Theatre in Buffalo, New York and won several awards. The Onion Game is his second play.
Sun 02 Oct: 1pm: 90 mins
SS Michael & John, 15-19 Essex St West, Temple Bar
Tickets €5.00 (€10 season ticket)
Booking: 1850 FRINGE (1850 374 643)
Book online at www.fringefest.com
Featuring the writers, directors and mentors who took part in the SEEDS II programme, the seminar was chaired by Lynne Parker, Artistic Director, Rough Magic.
3pm: Sunday, October 2: SS Michael & John, 15-19 Essex St West
Temple Bar: Duration 90 mins:
