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Chasing Butterflies & In The Garden
by Siobhan Donnellan
Galway Theatre Festival 2011
A collaboration between Dragonfly Theatre and Bluepatch Productions.
Directed by Aoife Connolly
Two separate lives caught in a vortex of grief. Annie Caryford and Big Story Hannigan recall the night they each lost a child; one to death, the other to darkness. What happens when the spirit of the dead becomes more vibrant and alive than those they leave behind?
Cast – Siobhán Donnellan, Martin Maguire and Fiachra O Dubhghaill.
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In The Garden, A play about life, death and everyone in between!
Cast – Siobhan Donnellan and Ben Mulhern
Production Credits; Lighting Design Zdenek Krousky, Sound Design Alan Meaney and Make up Louise Kelly.
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Reviews
” Siobhan Donnellan’s Chasing Butterflies is evocative and bittersweet..a brave and challenging new voice in Irish playwriting..excellent performances..Connolly’s direction paid tribute to the nuances and subleties which made for a wonderfully atmospheric event. Delicately balanced between hysteria and awe .” Irish Theatre Magazine read full review
Winner of Three Awards – Best Director, Best Actress and Best Actor
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” …Connolly continues to be a stand-out director at Galway Theatre Festival, spelling out performance spaces where nuances are to be cherry-picked, deconstructed, and re-rendered in the spectator’s own theatre experience.. Donnellan’s might as a writer lies in her articulation of the dalliances of temporary lives, some to be celebrated and others not, and the devastating result of when such life is snatched away…” Musings in Intermissions read full review
