MOTHER YOU
Mother You premiered in Block B, a large commercial warehouse in Smithfield, Dublin, as part of Dublin Fringe Festival 2015
It is an ambitious large scale performance for a disused commercial building which fuses performance, installation and video art to create a tender theatrical moment of activism and communion.
This work was developed with The Abbeyleix Bog Project; a small group of volunteers in Laois. The group reclaimed a vast area of bogland from a semi-state body for the recreational use of the community.
Information on the earlier phase of development for this work can be found in this tumblr notebook
'Set in a disused warehouse and fusing live performance, installation, video art and ritual, the audience are invited to be guests of this strained community; to collectively witness the action and to piece together fragments as the legacy unfolds. Spirit of the Fringe Winner 2013 (Way Back Home) returns with this epic, immersive adventure. The production tells the story of a prophetic township; where elders tailor-make the future, a leader leads badly, a gardener takes you on a journey, workers just keep working, and children carve their own way'.
PERFORMERS
Ania Bartoszek
Liam Burke
Jane Deasy
Carmel Ennis
Yannika Frank
Jo Kelly
Lucy Miller
Sian Ní Mhuirí
Will O'Connell
CREDITS
Directed and Conceived by Louise White
Set Design: Lian Bell
Costume Design: Ana Novacic
Composition and Sound Design: Alma Kelliher
Sound Assistant: Sinéad Diskin
Lighting Design: Kevin Smith
Production Co-Cordinator and Food Design: Fiona(Fink)Hallinan
Dramaturg: Róise Goan
Video Artist: Carolina Caetano
Assistant Director & Assistant Lighting Designer: Ellen Gorman
CHOIR
Maria Barry
Phil Cornwall
Ailve Hearty
Francis Keogh
Yvonne O’Reilly
Doreen Savage
Mary White
SUPPORTED BY:
Project Arts Centre Project Artists Initiative
FringeLAB, an initiative of Dublin Fringe Festival
Pan Pan International Mentorship Bursary
Dublin City Council Arts Office