Tales from the Holywell - Audio Described Programme Notes

The Weir - Audio Described Programme Notes

Joyce's Women Audio-described Programme by AbbeyTheatre

Translations Audio-described Programme Notes by AbbeyTheatre

Audio-described programme notes for the audio described performance of An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a radical reboot of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon.

Programme notes for the audio described performance of Portia Coughlan by Marina Carr.

Programme notes for the audio described performance of Faith Healer by Brian Friel.

The Pentagonal Dream Under Snow a single figure speaks with five separate male voices. The voices do not talk directly to one another and appear to be different people, but each is a strand of the whole man. Each voice tries to explain, justify and in the end, understand. The voices can be identified by their order of appearance: Father, Murderer, Storyteller, Fetishist and Messiah/Anti-Christ.

The Pentagonal Dream Under Snow by Sebastian Barry, created in collaboration with Olwen Fouéré, Roger Doyle and David Heap.

Creators: Sebastian Barry and Operating Theatre

Writer: Sebastian Barry

Composer: Roger Doyle

Performer: Olwen Fouéré

Director: David Heap

Unseen Plays Curator: Professor Christopher Morash

Audio Recording: Windmill Lane Recording Studios

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Programme notes for the audio described on-demand performance of The Long Christmas Dinner by Thornton Wilder.

Did You Hear the One About the Irishman? is a painful love story divided by sectarianism, and punctuated by the tasteless racist jokes of an anti-Irish comedian. Allison’s family don’t want her to marry Brian, a Catholic whose brother is serving a life sentence for terrorist offences. Brian’s family don’t want him to marry Allison, as she is a Protestant, and the niece of a Unionist politician.

The play parallels scenes of their two families, doubling characters to bring together two groups so impossibly divided. Allison and Brian’s brilliant optimistic hope that they will rise above the feud becomes heart-breaking as the play shows that the perpetuation of conflict is more powerful than either of them.

Cast:

Ruby Campbell

Desmond Eastwood

Andrea Irvine

Aonghus Óg McAnally

Eleanor Methven

Conor O'Donnell

Barry Simpson

Dan Gordon

Jolene O'Hara

Director: Emma Jordan

Unseen Plays Curator: Professor Christopher Morash

Audio Recording: Windmill Lane Recording Studios

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