Awkward Happiness is a contemporary dance-theatre piece performed by an attractive young cast of four, featuring singing, acting, contemporary dancing, live musical accompaniment, and video projection. As we enter a lithe young lady is sat on a table, swinging her legs, swigging wine and throwing sly smiles in our direction. As the show begins she […]

The full title of the show, A Young Man Dressed as a Gorilla Dressed as an Old Man Sits Rocking in a Rocking Chair for Fifty-Six Minutes and then Leaves… 7, is an entirely accurate and literal description of this performance, which was fascinating, hypnotic, and frustrating all at once. Now in its seventh year, […]

Commissioned by Dance City, the North East’s development agency for dance, R.I.O.T’s choreography includes highly dextrous acrobatic fight sequences between four seemingly stereotypical superheroes, led by the self-proclaimed and increasingly controlling Captain Patriot. R.I.O.T. is co-directed by Deirdre McLaughlin and Joseph Mercier, and Mercier also features in the piece alongside Sabrina Gargano, Jordan Lennie, and […]

‘I work silly hours just so I have something to complain about…clip on earrings…couscous…’ these are what Sophie Rose, writer and solo performer of this show, calls ‘quiet violence.’ The small atrocities that we commit against ourselves on a daily basis without ever really questioning why. She begins by greeting her audience chirpily, chatting informally […]

With its title hinting towards a way of life and method of survival now the stuff of history lessons, this production invites us in to ‘meet Ireland’s most hated woman’. The woman turns out to be Peig, author of Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island, a real book at the […]