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Entertainment by Alex Johnston (full version)
- Blasted by Sarah Kane
- The Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe,
adapted by Alex Johnston
- Wideboy Gospel by Ken Harmon
- Night Just Before the Forest by Bernard Marie
Koltes
- Quay West by Bernard Marie Koltes
- The Gods Are Not to Blame by Ola Rotimi (Co-production with
Project/Dublin Fringe Festival/Arambe)
- Feint - devised dance drama (International Theatre Symposium)
- Entertainment (demo version, International Theatre Symposium)
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Entertainment
by Alex Johnston (World premiere)
“…In Johnston’s provocative work,
immaculately directed by Jimmy Fay, we can also enjoy
the spectacle of an actor and writer acting ad-libbed
comedy routines. It has to be said that these are
often far funnier and better performed than the real
thing.”
- Irish Times
“…That’s the cunning of the show;
it takes the abrasive and no-holds-barred method of
the stand-up comic and weds it very well with theatre’s
remit as regards telling stories and provoking thought.”
- In Dublin
Performed by Alex Johnston
Lighting by Lee Davis
Sound by Sam Jackson
(Entertainment was nominated for the Best New
Play award at the 2003 Irish Times/ESB Theatre Awards)
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by Sarah Kane (Irish premiere)
“I cannot say that I enjoyed this play –
who could? – but I will remember it when I have
forgotten others more worthy…The cast of three
are altogether brilliant.”
- Irish Times
“Challenging and grotesquely fascinating.”
- Sunday Times
Performed by Fiona O' Shaughnessy,
Lalor Roddy & Aidan Kelly
Lighting by Paul Keogan
Music by Vincent Doherty
Set & Costume by Ferdia Murphy
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The Massacre @ Paris
by Alex Johnston
Adapted from The Massacre at Paris by Christopher
Marlowe
“Paul Keoghan’s fantastic lighting design
heightens Fay’s forceful staging and the director
guides a young and powerful cast into worthy performances.”
- Irish Times
“Johnston’s adaptation works very well
– the writing is fluid, the humour is clever
and the contemporary references are clever and accurate…a
compelling, engaging and…quite chilling piece
of theatre.”
- The Event Guide
“Not that there is anything wrong with college
drama…”
- Evening Herald
Performed by Charlie Bonner, Declan
Byrne, Lynn Cahill, Tony Flynn, Paschal Friel, Andrea
Irvine, Alex Johnston, David Layde, Robert Price,
Morna Regan, Karl Shields
Lighting by Paul Keogan
Music by Ivan Birthistle
Costume by Catherine Fay
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Gospel
by Ken Harmon (World premiere)
“Ken Harmon is a very good writer…Jimmy
Fay’s direction is very good indeed…it’s
great to see a theatre company making commitments to
writers they believe in.”
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“A colourful, macho satire in which everyone is
endemically criminalized.”
- The Guardian
“A piece of theatre whose swagger and humour belie
its gentle compassion and sharp intelligence.”
- Sunday Tribune
Performed by Ronan Leahy (later Shane
Hagan)
Lightingh by Lee Davis
Design by Johanna Conner
Costume by Catherine Fay
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Night Just Before
the Forest
by Bernard-Marie Koltès
Translated by Timothy Johns
“An astoundingly intense performance.”
- Irish Independent
“An unrelenting study of paranoid obsession,
which is performed with such conviction and written
so eloquently that we want to rush from the theatre,
as far from this tortured soul as possible.”
- Irish Times
“Bedrock deserve credit for broadening the horizons
and offering one of the best pieces of theatre in
this year’s Fringe.”
- Sunday Tribune
“It rocks you to the core…it would be
a tragedy not to expose it to a full house every night
from here.”
- The Advertiser (Adelaide)
(The Bedrock production of Night Just Before The
Forest, together with Pan Pan Theatre Company’s
Standoffish and Ridiculusmus’ The Exhibitionists,
shared an Advertiser Fringe Award for excellence at
the Adelaide Fringe Festival in 2000, the first Irish
companies ever to have done so.)
Performed by Shane Hagan
Lighting by Aedin Cosgrove &
Lee Davis
Music by Vincent
Doherty
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West
by Bernard-Marie Koltès
Translated by David Fancy, Joseph Long and Alex
Johnston (English-language premiere)
“A fascinating play with a powerful,
post-apocalyptic resonance.”
- Irish Independent
“An excellent ensemble cast…the three translators
have done a terrific job.”
- The Event Guide
“An extraordinarily powerful, dramatically intense,
and profoundly alienating piece of theatre.”
- Sunday Independent
“The sort of thing that makes you feel like slitting
your wrists…”
- Evening Herald
Performed by Pascal Friel, Neli Conroy,
Michelle Read, Mick Nolan, Bisi Adigun, Shane Hagan,
Kate Perry, Des Nealon.
Lighting by Paul Keogan
Music by Vincent Doherty
Design by Johanna Conner
Costumes by Catherine Fay
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