La Marea

La Marea

by Mariano Pensotti

presented by Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival an in association with Bedrock Productions

Cast:  Motorcycle Eric Higgins  Woman Trying to Sleep Caitriona Ni Mhurchu  Man on Balcony Steve Wilson  Living Room Couple Eva Docolomanska & Sam Peter Corry  Exercise & Piano Aidan Turner & Maria Tecce  Waiting Carrie Crowley & Ronan Leahy  Bar Gemma Reeves, Vincent Patrick & Frank Melia  Kissing Joe Roch & Megan Riordan  Bookshop Neil Watkins & Katie McGrath

A man has just had a motorbike accident… An insomniac tried to get to sleep… A couple has their first kiss… A man stands on a balcony escaping the party that rages on behind him.

Whens strangers walk past you on the street, do you ever start imagining what they are thinking? Where they come from? Or what they are doing  that very moment you glance upon them? Mariano Pensotti from Buenos Aires does, and he put these intimate snapshots into words and staged them in Dublin, at night.

In real time. moving from the pavement to illuminated windows, from balconies to cafe terraces the audience were taken on a journey through secret stories and private emotions that brought the Quartiere Bloom to vivid life.