Electroshock: a Theatre of Cruelty Season

What Where by Samuel Beckett

A late meditation on Torture and memory.

Obituary by Heiner Müller

A prose piece adapted for the stage, concerning the suicide of the author’s wife.

 

Catastrophe by Samuel Beckett

A tyrannical director rehearses a performance with an obsequious assistant and a browbeaten actor.

 

Anna’s Ankle by Mark O’Rowe

A young film-maker pitches an unusually brutal idea for a film.

 

Forked by Gavin Kostick

A fantasy derived from ancient Irish myth.

 

Waterfront Wasteland Medea Material Landscape with Argonauts by Heiner Müller

A series of texts for the stage, focusing on a radical representation of the Medea story.

 

Early Morning by Edward Bond

An extreme satire on Victorian history, in which the heirs to the throne of England are Siamese twins who, in the course of attempting to bring about a revolution, end up being eaten in heaven.

 

what the press said…

“In the scale, intelligence and ambition of this season – bringing difficult foreign plays to the Dublin stage, putting two new Irish plays into the mix, exploring serious cultural and political questions – Bedrock has established itself as a real force in Irish theatre…Fay’s direction of Early Morning is a superb accomplishment…Anna’s Ankle…performed by Patrick Leech with a fine sense of pace and control, has a critical place in the project.” Fintan O’Toole, Irish Times

“Degenerate…one of the most offensive pieces of work ever to be seen on the stage.” Evening Herald (of Anna’s Ankle)

 

Directed by Jimmy Fay, Caroline MacSweeny, John O’Brien, Jason Byrne, Gavin Kostick

 

Cast: Andrew Bennett, Ned Dennehy, Robert Price, Patrick Leech, Liz Kuti, Debbie Leeding, Tony Flynn, Ronan Grealy, Ian Hutchinson, Karl Shiels, Michelle Read, Shane Lynch, Sarah Pyle, Lesley Conroy, Niall Shanahan

 

Lighting by Paul Keogan and Lee Davis Music by Vincent Doherty Design by Anita Renaud & Catherine Fay & Joanne Cassidy Costume by Catherine Fay & Joanne Cassidy