Urban Ghosts

Pale Angel

Conceived & directed by Jimmy Fay

Text by Alex Johnston

Self-Accusation

Written by Peter Handke

Translated by Michael Roloff

Directed by Jimmy Fay

Cast: Pale Angel Lisa Lambe, Ronan Leahy and Megan Kennedy  Self-Accusation Amanda Coogan, Alex Johnston

Sound Design by Vincent Doherty

What the press said…

“How does one avoid cliché in dealing with Jimmy Fay and his company Bedrock?  Always innovative?  Perennially stimulating?  Thought provoking?  Immaculate production values?  Yes, yes, yes and yes… Both [pieces] send you on to the street haunted by ghosts.” – Emer O’Kelly, Sunday Independent

“An aural and visual pleasure.” – Irish Independent

“Amanda Coogan and Alex Johnston perform with a combination of staccato precision and controlled intensity.” – Sunday Independent

“Beautifully simple.” – The Guardian

“A mordantly witty word game…Fay keeps its delicious restraint.” – Fintan O’Toole, Irish Times

“Directed with great precision by Jimmy Fay and performed with conviction and wit.” – www.irishtheatremagazine.ie (5 stars)

Blurb

In our first Dublin Fringe Festival performance since 1999, Bedrock presented Urban Ghosts - a season of site-specific shows to challenge theatrical conventions and force audiences to face their demons. The first Urban Ghosts seasons consisted of two pieces, Pale Angel & Self-Accusation.

What’s it like to be haunted? For that matter, what’s it like to haunt? Is the world really losing its enchantment, or are ghosts just hiding from us?

Fusing theatre, dance and video, Pale Angel saw Bedrock’s work moving in radical and unorthodox directions.

An intense, riveting and at times surreally funny exploration of the concept of duty: a man and a woman stand on a stage and take it in turns to accuse themselves - of what? Of doing things, of failing to do them, of doing things we regard as terrible and things we regard as perfectly unexceptional. Originally performed for one night only as part of Amnesty’s Violence Against Women Festival, Self-Accusation by Peter Handke, returned for a further run in Dublin.