The Quare Fellow: Audio described programme notes by AbbeyTheatre

One of the most uniquely recognisable, and critically and popularly lauded, voices in Irish music, Radie Peat – of multi-award winning Lankum and ØXN – collaborates with the Abbey Theatre on its production of Brendan Behan’s The Quare Fellow, lending her vocals to the lyrics of 'The Old Triangle', which ring out hauntingly throughout the performance. Read more here: https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/the-old-triangle/

Audio Description notes for Somewhere Out There You by Nancy Harris, directed by Wayne Jordan at the Abbey Theatre.

Ghosts on demand: Audio Described programme notes by AbbeyTheatre

Ghosts Audio-described programme notes by AbbeyTheatre

As part of the run of our new production of Moliere's Tartuffe, we initiated a series of post-show discussions on themes emerging from the new version of the play by Frank McGuinness. The discussions focussed on the origins of these themes in the play and broadened out to encompass reflections on their relevance for Ireland in the past and the present. Our second talk covered Me Too: confronting patriarchy and sexual oppression. This conversation was explored by curator Catriona Crowe along...

As part of the run of our new production of Moliere's Tartuffe, we initiated a series of post-show discussions on themes emerging from the new version of the play by Frank McGuinness. The discussions focussed on the origins of these themes in the play and broadened out to encompass reflections on their relevance for Ireland in the past and the present. Our first talk covered Me Too: confronting patriarchy and sexual oppression. For this talk, curator Catriona Crowe was joined on stage by...

Audio-described programme note for the Abbey Theatre production of Tartuffe

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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,...

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...

An Triail is set in Ireland during the 1960s and deals with the pregnancy, and subsequent single motherhood, of a young woman, Máire Ní Chathasaigh. She is shunned by her family after becoming impregnated by Pádraig, a married man and a teacher in the local school, and must leave her parish and move to Dublin to find work to support herself and her child. Here she is once again marginalised, first for being a single pregnant woman and then for being a single mother. After her accommodation...

Set in the district court of Barrabeg, Co. Kerry, a judge presides over the case of a 13-year-old girl about to be sent to an Industrial School. A humane solicitor argues that young children need “kissing and caressing”, while the Mother Superior of the orphanage, where the girl grew up, says they need harsh discipline in order to learn “humility”. The play ends with the girl taking off her scarf to show her shaved head, a punishment for absconding from the orphanage. Cast Deirdre...

The loss of traditional rural values in the West of Ireland is central to this play. The results of emigration from the region are no weddings and no children. Those left there are left to totter in to old age. But Sanbatch Daly, a descendant of the derelict Big House is determined to reverse the problem of rural decline. When Con arrives to cut down the wood at the D'Arcy demesne, he encounters Sanbatch living by the abandoned castle gates and soon meets “some comical Irishmen” in the wood...

Set in the midst of the poverty, dirt and smells of the Liffey Lane tenements. Food and decent clothing are scarce, and illness common particularly among the children. But there is also kindness and decency, neighbours looking out for each other, a community very different from that of the small Irish town, but still bound together. But this community is being scattered as the tenements are torn down, forcing the residents to find other homes. Chrissie moves through this world, and the more...

A one-act play set on a sunny afternoon on the north-west coast of Ireland. Pat Scully, a man of 60, stands at the open door of his house and looks out at this garden and the hill-side beyond. Over the course of the action his son John, his daughter-in-law Mary and a visiting English painter and his wife - Kenneth and Ismay Leslie - come and go. John seems quite taken with Ismay. He pays her a good deal of attention. Pat does not like this and becomes angry with his son on Mary’s...

Programme notes for the audio described performance of What I (Don't) Know About Autism by Jody O'Neill