Theatre on and off the stage
Drama on and off stage and for all ages will be provided by An Tain Arts Centre in the coming weeks.
First up sees the highly acclaimed ‘Scorch’ by the Belfast based Prime Cut Productions in An Tain on Friday September 23.
Inspired by recent court cases, and written by Stacey Gregg, it tells the story of
first love through the eyes of a gender-curious teen.
Amy McAllister has been much praised for her role as Kes, a teenager who has to first get get to know herself as she falls in love and ventures into the real world away from the computer screen,
Scorch won Best New Play at the 2015 Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, the Fringe First Award 2016 and has been nominated as Best New Play for the Writer’s Guild of Ireland ZeBBie Awards.
It comes to Dundalk as part of an UK and Ireland tour. It recently had a successful run at the Edinburgh Festival where it won two awards and will play in during the Belfast Theatre Festival in October.
Tickets are €15, concessions €12.
Young audiences will get the chance to discover the magic of theatrical make believe when everyone’s favourite, Bosco is joined by large puppets to pres- ent the much loved story of Hansel and Gretal on Saturday, September 24 at 2pm.
The Lambert Puppet Theatre is now widely recognised as the premier touring puppet theatre company in Ireland. Paula Lambert was the voice of Bosco on TV for seventeen years and Bosco is still a firm favourite with younger children.
This promises to be an excellent way to entertain the kids and a family ticket for two adults and two children under ten is €30.
A challenging production with a difference comes to the Long Walk Shopping Centre for the week beginning Monday September 26 when Upstate Theatre Project invite audiences to step back to the not so distant past when people with mental health problems or who didn’t conform to society’s expectations were assigned to the local psyciatric hospital
Upstate Theatre Project, worked with the award-winning director Louise Lowe and the community of Ardee, to develop an immersive historical experience exploring health care in 20th Century Ireland.
The performance is set The Bell Room where staff went for a break during their shift, until such time as they were summonsed back to the wards by a patient ringing the bell.
Audiences can listen to the conversations recorded from former staff members at St Brigid’s and the community in Ardee and get an insight into a time when issues surrounding mental health were not as well understood as they are nowadays and the challenges faced by both staff and patients.
The Bell Room has been conceived to be experienced by one audience member at a time and the performance takes twenty minutes.
It comes to Dundalk after successful runs in Ardee Library and during the Drogheda Arts Festival. Tickets are €3.
Tickets for all shows can be booked through www.antain.ie.