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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.
Winner of Three Awards (Cork Arts Theatre) – Best Director, Best Actress and Best Actor
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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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Memory Palace by Jane Madden & Creative Team
Galway Theatre Festival 2010
A collaboration between a creative ensemble of artists.
The devised piece explores the relationship between memory and identity.
Based on the Greek myth of Mnemosyne; the goddess of memory;
When we die we cross into the Underworld and are given a choice; to drink from the river Lethe and forget all our pain or to drink from the river Mnemsoyne and remember everything.
Lottie chooses to remember but at what cost……….
Creative ensemble includes Full Cast, Visual Artists Tamsyn Speight, Joanne Murray and Playwright Jane Madden.
Cast includes Aoife Connolly, Andrea Scott, Andy Crowe and Musician Aisling Quinn
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Medea Redux by Neil LaBute
The Boys School, Smock Alley, Dublin 2010.
Galway Theatre Festival 2009,
Bodytonicmusic’s Bernard Shaw Beer Garden, Dublin, 2009,
Directed by Aoife Connolly
One woman’s intimate confession of a forbidden sexual relationship….
condemned to solitude….she manifests three different forms of herself to
recount her story of desire, power and fate…stripped of almost everything…
the story she weaves is all she can wrap around herself.
Cast includes Aoife Connolly, Andrea Scott and musician Aisling Quinn.
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The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl
The New Theatre, Dublin 2009
Directed by Aoife Connolly
- A WHIMSICAL ROMANTIC COMEDY-
Winner of the Susan Blackburn Award and A Pulitzer Prize Finalist in 2005
When married doctors Charles and Lane hire stand – up comic Matilde as their live in maid, they get anything but a clean house. It may look spotless, but it soon fills up with the dirty laundry of Charles’s affair with an older woman, Lane’s depression, her sister Virginia’s identity crisis and Matilde’s struggle to find the perfect joke in a house full of dark secrets
Original Music by Aisling Quinn - Hotpress have compared her “winning vocal” style to that of Kate Bush and have applauded her for providing something less predictable to the singer/songwriter genre.
Cast includes Norette Leahy, Nicola Lindsay, Neil Hogan, Niamh Clancy and Sandra Villegas.
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Portia Coughlan by Marina Carr
The New Theatre, Dublin 2009
Directed by Aoife Connolly
Acclaimed playwright Marina Carr looks beyond the surface level of life and shines light on the darker side of humanity. In essence the play is a biting black comedy that will entice you to journey with Portia as she struggles to live up to family expectations.
Incestuous relationships, domestic violence and infidelity are all part of this sexually charged landscape where old mistakes constantly repeat themselves. Portia Coughlan is about speaking the unspoken; exploring the boundaries of desire with self destructive consequences.
Original Music by Aisling Quinn- Hotpress have compared her “winning vocal” style to that of Kate Bush and have applauded her for providing something less predictable to the singer/songwriter genre.
Cast includes Andrea Scott, Ben Mulhern, Ann Russell, Paul Nolan, Steven Jones, Eileen Fennell, Suzanne Lakes, Sarah Barragry, Tommy Campbell, Aidan Jordan
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