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This particular poetry performance is, perhaps fittingly for the This particular poetry performance limbo that is the cinema. It is year 2020, set in that everyday screen — a crucial consciously conceived for the large-scale lived on small screens — and gesture, when so much life is being with an audience in plush as a physical, collective experience, powerful surround-sound system seats, bathed in light, feeling the the typical fare experienced within their bodies. Running against our contemporary pace of life in such spaces (not to mention in general), visuals, both this experience is slow and deep. The made lighting a candle and cursing the darkness, have been The voices feel close, and yet by hand and filmed in real time. feel impossibly far, Beckett’s words and images sometimes a dead language, or a lost literature. dispatched from a lost city, Crossing these poems with such a space invites a personal immersion into the deepest and most intimate questions of being, of language, of sex, of death. by Nicholas Johnson by Nicholas by an is overjoyed not everyone from experience, Speaking event not a clearly defined It is to a poetry performance. invitation range of possible it could lead to a wide with formal conditions: tradition that in the listener. The bardic outcomes and feelings from the Homeric human cultures and histories — sweeps across filí of Ireland from the biwa hoshi of Japan to the epics to the Sufis, impulse to depth and breadth of the human — shows both the poetry being But in our cosmopolitan present, hear verse aloud. (painful sincerity run the gamut from adolescent could “voiced” book to adult (earnest readings at university at an open mic) Thought’s ten-minute freestyle).launches) to transhuman (Black us somewhere, the destination Though poetry always transports infernal, purgatorial, or could be anywhere in Dante’s universe: paradisiacal. Once more, with colour with more, Once WHAT IS THE WORD ESSAY BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE 5 The project’s second stage, begun before the present time of The project’s second stage, begun collective quest for the optimal pandemic, has been the company’s might experience in which an audience form of “social sculpture” poems. The experience that the thoughts arising from Beckett’s has resulted rests on two main foundations, buttressing the central pillar of the poems: first, from Aedín Cosgrove and Gavin Quinn, the idea of using the space, architecture, and sound of the cinema; This project has had a long gestation period, with dramaturgy This project has had a long gestation 2015. These early stages of the and recordings beginning in late of how Beckett’s words on the process asked only the question the human voice, and the answer page might be best served by acting, recording, and editing. was explored through casting, the years since as “pickling” Jimmy Eadie has referred to the distance to deepen the flavour recordings — allowing time and knew all too well from listening of the sound design. As Krapp not remain the same over time, to himself at 39, recordings do were captured: we hear them no matter the fidelity at which they the planet. differently as we age, along with WHAT IS THE WORD also extends one of the most fruitful strands strands most fruitful of the one also extends THE WORD IS WHAT in conversation its ongoing practice: experimental Pan’s of Pan built has gradually Beckett. The company of Samuel the aftermath work of Beckett’s repertoire toured) a multi-faceted (and widely of the presentations theatrical past decade, including over the Fall (2011–present), All That radio plays Embers (2013), and Cascando (2016–present), television a lecture-performance of the play Quad (2014), written for the and only one play actually (2019).theatre, Endgame with many These projects, assembled have collided a both on and off stage, of the same collaborators frame: radio and artistic forms within a theatrical range of media and mathematics, and sculpture, dance and television, installation project, billed as and sound art. With this new music composition to the Pan Pan brings its focus experience,” an “audio cinematic first time. of Beckett’s poetry for the challenging terrain WHAT IS THE WORD ESSAY BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE 6 In fact, Beckett’s poetry reveals much the same arc as his other In fact, Beckett’s poetry reveals to subtraction, from performative work, as it moves from addition erudition to self-impoverishment and indigence. In curating a journey through this (non-chronological) arrangement of Beckettian voices, sounds, and images, Pan Pan aspires to bring Beckett’s poetry is striking for its somewhat peripheral status in is striking for its somewhat peripheral Beckett’s poetry of his fame as a certainly it is not the main source his oeuvre, and his career, and even it remained a passion throughout writer. Yet his sources, would reveal many close links with a brief analysis many young readers concerns as a writer. For ideals, and recurrent to inspire; several of the the poetry retains its power especially, young, though recalled reading it when artists on the project project occasioned a return to and this somewhat indistinctly, on which it yields a great deal close reading and repeat reading, of Samuel Beckett’s poetry is more. The authoritative version Pilling, edited by Seán Lawlor and John the Collected Poems in 2012. This volume runs to almost published by Faber and Faber annotations, to commentary, 500 pages, half of which is devoted value in clarifying Beckett’s and appendices, of tremendous and Pilling acknowledge that Lawlor dauntingly vast referentiality. suggests he must “Beckett may — and in fact the public reception But they go on as anyone might.” — have overvalued his poems, poetry that he confronted himself to acknowledge that “it was in was in conflict with his even if this confrontation most intimately, of ventriloquism, disguise or instinct to protect himself by way deviousness.” second, from Ros Kavanagh, the visual concept of trying to film trying to of concept the visual Ros Kavanagh, from second, on the was broadcast poetry Beckett’s time. Though in real light various commemorative regularly at been read aloud BBC, has performances into solo stage and has been folded events, at of poetry experience a new form Pan Pan has created before, and abstraction and innovation, between tradition the borders and theatre. cinema specificity, WHAT IS THE WORD ESSAY BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE 7 us closer to the work’s musicality and beauty, certainly. But what But certainly. beauty, and musicality the work’s to us closer the listen or second read or second the before left with, we are burning of Beckett’s is the sheer intensity are consulted, footnotes asked to do what we are do little else than can speak. We need to to the light.” : “listen in Embers WHAT IS THE WORD POEMS BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE 8

| written in early August 1931, called by Beckett the Enueg II | written in early August 1931, it is one of the earliest- With ‘Alba’, ‘little policeman Enueg’. , Bones and Other Precipitates composed poems in Echo’s in Paris by George Reavey Beckett’s pre-war collection published in December 1935. | date unclear, but probably 1977. Moving from The Downs | date unclear, but probably 1977. recall the view over the Thames summer into winter, the poem may Bridge (according to John Calder),from Waterloo or it may invoke cottage, from Tree Yew a 1938 visit to Peggy Guggenheim’s (according to Seán Lawlor and which the South Downs are visible John Pilling). | written in mid-1932, the second of the ‘sirens’ series of the ‘sirens’ Serena II | written in mid-1932, the second of pilgrimage in County Mayo. evokes rural walks and the history copy with the phrase: ‘Glencullen Beckett annotated his personal He regarded this poem as ‘a – Prince William’s Seat Enniskerry’. complete failure’. | written between 1932 and 1933. The series of 1932 and 1933. The series Serena III | written between song in which a relate to a Provençal evening titles may ‘Serena’ and the longing ‘unhappiness during the daytime lover expresses figures of Purgatorio. Dante’s ‘siren’ and/or for the night’, | composed in 1946 and not published in Beckett’s not published in 1946 and | composed Antipepsis referring poetry, is unusual in Beckett’s Its rhyming form lifetime. to Joyce. Written of satirical poetry from Swift to the Irish history Kicks in banning of his book More Pricks than in response to the Ireland. Poems WHAT IS THE WORD PAN PAN BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE 9 | written in Dublin in 1931. The title derives from the Enueg I | written in Dublin in 1931. The by as noted as the ‘complaint’, Provençal genre of poetry known by Jean Beck. Beckett Beckett from La musique des troubadours called this poem his ‘canal Enueg’. | written in Cooldrinagh, in Foxrock, in mid-1932, but Serena I | written in Cooldrinagh, in Foxrock, poem visits the restricted-books locations are all in London. The considers the rear end of a famous section of the British Museum, (by water) to monkey at Regent’s Park Zoo, and travels Old World Bridge and the Monument. Tower | written in March and April 1974 as part of the dread nay | written in March and April 1974 its first draft was series. A highly structured poem, ‘hors crâne’ of headings: ‘1) Head, 2) Position organized under four numbered Clues to all passages can Head’. Head, 3) Argument, 4) Inside of frozen tears, be found in Inferno, especially constrained movement, and the chattering of teeth. | probably written in the summer love to die | probably written I would like my in 1963 final line was altered by Beckett of 1947, but the record so variations across the published correspondence, series, it is one Poèmes’ other two of the ‘Trois abound. With the been first published in Beckett’s oeuvre to have of the only poems facing translation. with English/French was completed in was completed shortly afterMurphy | composed Cascando a variant reworked in two poems and published as 1936. First play of his 1963 radio is shared with version, the title German a that distinguishes musical term name; it is a rare the same owes a perhaps also tempo (and in volume and/or diminuendo ). reading of Horace’s Art of Poetry debt to Beckett’s WHAT IS THE WORD PAN PAN BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE 10 | written in 1933. Commemorates a long cycle taken Sanies I | written in 1933. Commemorates through North County Dublin. by Beckett that Easter Sunday Interwoven with extremely ornate and learned ways of indicating the discomfort of the cyclist, as well as the difficulties of German grammar. | likely written in early 1934. The title seems likely to Es | likely written in early 1934. The Da Tagte to (day-song, related ‘Tagelied’ refer to Heinrich von Morungen’s genre), translated as ‘it which includes this line (usually the ‘Alba’ is daybreak’). in the late Beckett recalled the poem from memory 1980s. | written in 1945 or 1946. It is the only Beckett poem Saint-Lô | written in 1945 or 1946. It is French translation),known to be carved in stone (in over the in the rebuilt town of Saint-Lô. entrance to the cultural centre concerned letters to the Irish In 1946 the poem elicited several Times as to its meaning. | written in August 1931 in House 39 of Trinity College College 1931 in House 39 of Trinity Alba | written in August genre of song’ or ‘dawn the ‘aubade’ Dublin. Referencing Dante’s Paradiso, the Gospel the poem invokes Provençal poetry, love. of John, and Beckett’s own unrequited | probably written early 1935. This title refers to one early 1935. This title refers | probably written The Vulture im Winter’. poems by Goethe, ‘Harzreise of Beckett’s favourite carrion, and the invocations of skulls, swooping, This short poem’s his later works. recur throughout ‘eye of prey’ | begun in Paris in 1932. The title comes from the The title comes in Paris in 1932. II | begun Sanies culture Invokes brothel from a sore’. term for ‘discharge medical the works of William and Paris, via in Dublin and flagellation Thackeray, d’Aulnoy, Comtesse Puvis de Chavannes, Cooper, Dante. and (of course) Plautus, WHAT IS THE WORD PAN PAN BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE 11 | composed and first Comment dire / what is the word in 1989, and thus published in French in 1988; self-translated with a dedication to Joseph Beckett’s final written work. A version Chaikin, the American director/performer who suffered from aphasia following a stroke, appeared in 1990. At the top of the College Dublin, it is written: autograph manuscript held in Trinity For end’. ‘Keep! / what would I do without my way is in the sand flowing of 1947. First and this world | probably written in the summer which were originally published as a Poèmes’, third of the ‘Trois in 1948, later collected under the series (bilingually) in Transition under the in the early 1960s, and later published title ‘Dieppe’ poetry. in Calder’s 1977 collection of Beckett’s title ‘Six Poèmes’ they are known by their first lines. Today | written shortly after Beckett’s father’s death in 1933, Malacoda | written shortly after Beckett’s movingly on the passage of a revised 1935. The poem reflects family house. The title refers to flatulent undertaker through the in Inferno, literally ‘Eviltail’, a demon in the fifth bolgia of Dante’s Cantos XXI–XXII. | written in Stuttgart in 1977, first published | written in Stuttgart one dead of night cameraman who this poem to Jim Lewis, the 1996. Beckett gave and …but the clouds… for Süddeutscher was filming Ghost Trio present of a head rising and bowing, Rundfunk. Imagery the late film work, anticipates imagery from throughout his late . Nacht und Träume | the title poem of Beckett’s pre-war collection, pre-war collection, poem of Beckett’s Bones | the title Echo’s (1966 birthday tributes part of Beckett’s broadcast as frequently and 1976), of the descriptions due to its vivid especially fitting with ‘The that begins It ends the collection of putrefaction. process Vulture’. WHAT IS THE WORD PAN PAN BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE 12 WHAT IS THE WORD CREATIVES BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE 13 Andrew Bennett Andrew Bonner Charlie Des Cave Craigie Ingrid Ned Dennehy Aoife Duffin Olwen Fouéré Áine Ní Mhuirí Gina Moxley Daniel Reardon Judith Roddy Aedín Cosgrove Ros Kavanagh Gavin Quinn Jimmy Eadie Jimmy Eadie Rachel Conlon Nicholas Johnson Gareth Jones Speakers Speakers Project Designers Sound Design Poetry Recordings Dramaturg Graphic Design WHAT IS THE WORD CREATIVES BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE 14 Pan Pan Pan Festival Cork Midsummer Ireland Poetry Festival Kilkenny Arts Irish Film Institute Studies Centre for Beckett Trinity The Arts Council Dublin City Council Edward Beckett Alan Fitzpatrick Maureen Kennelly Lorraine Maye Niamh O’Donnell Olga Barry Sunniva O’Flynn Willie White Collaborators Supporters Thank You Producers WHAT IS THE WORD CREATIVES BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE 15 is Co-Founder and Co-Artistic and Co-Artistic is Co-Founder is an arts photographer and Ros Kavanagh Aedín Cosgrove Aedín Director of Pan Pan and as a set and lighting designer has Pan and as a set and lighting designer Director of Pan Recent work in Ireland and internationally. worked extensively Theatre, Melbourne, at the Malthouse includes The Temple The Good House in the Uncanny Valley, Adventures ELIZA’s the Landlord) Doll House, Do Di Zhu (Fight of Happiness, A Sacrifice Playing the Dane for Pan Pan; and The Rehearsal, for and Faraway on Spike Island at Easter, The Numbered World), (Brave New Der Corcadorca; Schöne Neue Welt and NŌ NŌ NŌ in a co-production Sturm (The Tempest) Bonn; A Midsummer Night’s between Pan Pan and Theatre recent designs Dream at the Abbey Theatre. Aedín’s most for the Borealis are TimeTimeTime by Jennifer Walshe by Samuel Beckett at Festival Norway 2019, Endgame Pasolini’s Salò Redubbed, Project Arts Centre, Dublin and co-production for Dublin a Dylan Tighe and Abbey Theatre Theatre Festival 2019.

videographer specialising in performance, visual art and videographer specialising in performance, artists, companies, architecture. He works with leading documenting their work and venues, galleries and practices, worked with Pan Pan in collaborating on projects. He has this capacity since 2001.

CREAT IVES WHAT IS THE WORD CREATIVES BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE 16 is Co-Founder and is Co-Founder Gavin Quinn Gavin CREATIVES Pan Pan. Selected Director of Co-Artistic Endgame awards include: credits and Arts Centre Beckett, Project by Samuel , a Pan Pan and 2019; The Sleepwalkers The Theatre co-production; Dublin Youth Melbourne; , Malthouse Theatre, Temple , in the Uncanny Valley Adventures ELIZA’s Irish Times Theatre nominated for two (Brave New Awards; Schöne Neue Welt NŌ and World), Tempest) Der Sturm (The between Pan NŌ NŌ in a co-production Pan and Theatre Bonn; The Importance of Birds at Nothing, The Seagull and Other Embers NCAP Beijing and Dublin 2014; Herald by Samuel Beckett, Winner of International Angel Award at the Edinburgh Festival 2013; All That Fall by Samuel Design Beckett, Winner of Best Sound Times and Best Lighting Design, Irish of Herald Theatre Awards 2011, Winner International Angel Award at the Edinburgh NY; Festival 2013, BAM, Lincoln Center , Winner The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane Design of Best Production and Best Set MAC- Irish Times Theatre Awards 2010; BETH 7, nominated for Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Production 2004. WHAT IS THE WORD

Jimmy Eadie is an Audio Engineer, Producer and Artist whose award-winning work covers recording, sound design and installation. He uses a variety of sculptural and time-based media which are often

presented through hybrid forms of installation and CREATIVES performance. His work has been presented throughout Ireland and internationally. He is a founding member of the Crash Ensemble and is currently a creative partner. He was nominated in 2013 and won the Irish Times Theatre Award for best sound in 2011 and 2015. Jimmy CREATIVEShas collaborated with artists, composers and performers from varied backgrounds and has toured internationally as Sound Designer, Audio Engineer and Producer. As a professional musician, he released music on Chrysalis, Ensign and Setanta as well as many independent Irish labels. He currently lectures within the School of Engineering, Trinity College Dublin.

Rachel Conlon is an audio engineer from Dublin and has been in the industry over 10 years across BACK TO CONTENTS studio, live, and post production audio. Formerly House Engineer and Assistant Studio Manager in Windmill Lane Recording Studios, Rachel has worked with artists such as Ed Sheeran, Hozier, Ellie Goulding, Jess Glynne, and has worked on a wide range of orchestral recordings for film and television soundtracks. Rachel is also PPI award nominated for Best Live Sound Engineer for Spin 1038’s The Live Room. Rachel has been working with PAGE 17 Pan Pan on projects since 2016 and is enjoying current productions Cascando and WHAT IS THE WORD. WHAT IS THE WORD CREATIVES BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE 18

is a theatre- is a CREATIVES Nicholas Johnson Nicholas maker and Associate Professor of Drama of Drama Associate Professor maker and Dramaturgy Dublin. College at Trinity Platform, OT D-Project, credits include Room, Dead Centre/Gate Beckett’s previous Pan Pan Theatre and four Endgame, The productions including in Adventures Sleepwalkers, ELIZA’s and Cascando. the Uncanny Valley include Virtual Play Directing credits 1st prize, New after Samuel Beckett, awards, 2017 and the European Media premiere of No’s Knife, Lincoln Center publications include the 2015. His 2020 books Experimental Beckett, Cambridge University Press and Bertolt Brecht’s : An David Fragments (1919–1921) Interdisciplinary Study, Bloomsbury, as well as the special issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies on Beckett and Pedagogy (29.1). He co-founded Centre for Beckett Studies, the Trinity and the Samuel Beckett Laboratory, he the Beckett Summer School, and convenes the Creative Arts Practice He has held research theme at TCD. visiting research positions at Freie University. Universität Berlin and at Yale WHAT IS THE WORD PAN PAN BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE 19 WHAT IS THE WORD SPEAKERS BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE 20 is a theatre, television and film actor. Based in Dublin, he is particularly associated actor. Based in Dublin, he is particularly and Pan with theatre companies Corn Exchange has included The Pan. His work in the Abbey Theatre Flynn, The Tarry Lolita, Marriage of Figaro, Tartuffe, and most recently The Fall of the House, Translations Second Republic. Film and television work includes Garage, The Stag and Black 47. He has Bad Self, Your His Beckett work worked in Irish, French and German. Happy includes What Where, A Piece of Monologue, For Godot and, with Pan Pan, Embers, Days, Waiting All That Fall, Cascando and Endgame. Andrew Bennett WHAT IS THE WORD SPEAKERS BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE 21 has worked worked has Charlie Bonner Bonner Charlie with most theatre companies companies most theatre with for island of Ireland across the in both years, appearing almost 30 7 and A Doll House MAC-BETH recent Pan. His most with Pan work includes The Playboy Of with the Lyric World The Western and the Gaiety Theatre Belfast with Dublin Theatre in association Bread Not Profits Theatre Festival, with Train Evening with Gúna Nua, at The Everyman, Rosa Productions with Cork, Rathmines Road New Play Company Fishamble: The in association with the Abbey Theatre. Charlie appeared in the award winning film Redemption Of A Rogue with Pale Rebel Productions this year. He is a College Dublin. graduate of Trinity WHAT IS THE WORD SPEAKERS BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE 22 joined the Abbey Theatre from its Acting joined the Abbey Theatre from School in 1963 and was a permanent company member for School in 1963 and was a permanent major and minor roles 45 years. During this time he played of the theatre, touring in the classic and modern repertoire include Oedipus Rex Highlights nationally and internationally. Cacoyannis and Brecht’s directed by Michael B Yeats, by W. Mac directed by Tomas The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Abbey in A Midsummer Anna. He recently returned to the and Night’s Dream, directed by Pan Pan’s Gavin Quinn credits include Othello directed by Joe Dowling. Screen adaptation of Brian Friel’s the role of Gar Private in the film A award-winning play Philadelphia Here I Come!, Paddy, Veronica Man, The General, of The Artist as a Young Portrait Eddie. Des met his wife Anne while she Guerin, and Trojan Supervisor at the Wardrobe was a Costume Designer and a Their daughter Suzanne followed in her footsteps, Abbey. becoming a costume designer, working on productions for in 2019 for the BBC Pan Pan, and was awarded a BAFTA English Scandal. TV Series A Very Des Cave WHAT IS THE WORD

Ingrid Craigie is one of Ireland’s most esteemed stage and screen actors. Recent screen credits include: her IFTA nominated performance as Mary in TV series Blood, the short film Psychic directed by Brendan Gleeson, David SPEAKERS Hare’s BBC series Roadkill, the feature films Forever In My Heart, Death of a Ladies Man and Entebbe. On stage, she recently reprised the role of the Duchess of York in the Druid production of Richard III for the Lincoln Center, New York. Other recent stage credits include Sweet Bird of Youth, Chichester Theatre Festival, the role of Eileen Gray in Invitation to a Journey, CoisCéim/Crash Ensemble/ BACK TO CONTENTS Fishamble/Galway International Arts Festival. Further theatre work includes Celebration, The Deep Blue Sea, Faith Healer directed by Jonathan Kent, with Ralph Fiennes and Ian McDiarmid, The Collection with Harold Pinter, Beckett’s Play,

Gate Theatre, and The Cripple PAGE 23 of Inishmaan, West End, Broadway, Ireland and US tour. WHAT IS THE WORD SPEAKERS

Ned Dennehy recently starred as Hastur in the BBC/ Amazon series Good Omens. He played the part of Riktor opposite Daniel Radcliffe in Guns Akimbo and the Paudi in Calm with Horses. Other recent work includes Undergods,

Zone 414, Outlander, Dublin Murders, and The Young BACK TO CONTENTS Offenders. He played Brother Swan in the much lauded action horror film Mandy alongside Nicholas Cage and won an IFTA for his part in An klondike. He plays Charlie Strong in Peaky Blinders, BBC and Paddy in Glitch, ABC. Other credits include Tyrannosaur, Harry Potter, Child 44, The Eagle, Downhill, The Keeping Room, Blitz, Luther, Broken, Banished, Serena, Versailles, DaVincis Demons, Dickensian. Ned has worked for Pan Pan on Oedipus Loves You, MAC-

BETH 7, The Crumbtrail, and The One Project. Beckett PAGE 24 work includes That Time, What Where, Waiting for Godot and From an Abandoned work. WHAT IS THE WORD SPEAKERS

Aoife Duffin’s theatre includes Hamlet, Gate Theatre, St Ann’s Warehouse, New York; Translations National Theatre; Desire Under the Elms, Sheffield Crucible; Chekhov’s First Play, Dead Centre; The Taming of the Shrew, The Globe; Spring Awakening, Headlong/ Number 1 Tour; The Crucible, The Lyric Theatre, Belfast; Christ Deliver Us! Abbey Theatre; The Importance of Being Earnest, Solemn Mass BACK TO CONTENTS for a Full Moon in the Summer, Rough Magic; The Crumb Trail and Oedipus Loves You, Pan Pan; Little Gem, Gúna Nua; Eclipsed, Fishamble: The New Play Company. Television includes: When Harvey Met Bob, Bump; Resistance; Dead Still, RTÉ, Acorn T.V. Moone Boy, Series 1-3, The End of the Fucking World. Film includes: My Life For Ireland;

Earthbound, Rippleworld Pictures; Out of Here; What PAGE 25 Richard Did, Element Pictures; Behold the Lamb, Film Four; Joy, The Ferry, Everything Felt Possible, Algorithm and Sister, Pickles Productions. WHAT IS THE WORD

Olwen Fouéré is a performer and creator whose extensive practice navigates live performance, film, the visual arts and music. She has performed numerous works by Samuel Beckett including Endgame, Not I,

Play, Come and Go, Catastrophe SPEAKERS and Lessness. Recent highlights include her internationally acclaimed riverrun produced by her company TheEmergencyRoom with Galway International Arts Festival and Cusack Projects Ltd; and Tremble, Tremble by Jesse Jones for the Venice Biennale 2017 which is currently touring internationally. Recent audio recordings include I,Antigone and The Quiet Neanderthals for Roger Doyle’s electronic opera iGirl written by Marina Carr and The Land in Change by Patrick BACK TO CONTENTS O’Laoghaire for Fishamble’s Tiny Plays. She is currently shooting two feature films including The Northman by Robert Eggers. Other films include Sea Fever, Mandy, Beast, The Survivalist, This Must be The Place. PAGE 26 WHAT IS THE WORD

Áine Ní Mhuirí was in All That Fall in which she played Mrs. Rooney and Embers by Samuel Beckett. Pan Pan’s Embers played in Dublin at the Samuel Beckett Theatre prior to the Edinburgh International Arts Festival in 2013 and at the SPEAKERS Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York in 2014. She was also part of Pan Pan’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House, which played at Smock Alley Theatre prior to performing at the World Theatre Festival at Brisbane Powerhouse. Áine played Hermia in Gavin Quinn’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Abbey Theatre. Her TV credits include: Michael’s Mother in LA Productions of Broken and in BACK TO CONTENTS the first series of Blood for Fola Productions. For radio, Quiet City, Philip Davison, directed by Aidan Mathews. PAGE 27 WHAT IS THE WORD SPEAKERS

Gina Moxley is a Dublin based writer, actor and director. She recently contributed A Start to the Abbey Theatre’s online lockdown project, Dear Ireland, and Still, Life to Dublin Dance Festival’s online project Where I Am Now. Her play The Patient Gloria, a co-production with the Abbey Theatre, in association with Pan Pan, premiered at the Peacock Theatre for BACK TO CONTENTS Dublin Theatre Festival in 2018, then played at Traverse Theatre for Edinburgh Fringe in 2019 where it won a Fringe First and a Herald Angel award. Gina has performed with Pan Pan since 2005, most recently in The Rehearsal, Playing The Dane in Wuzhen, China. She directed Caitríona Ní Mhurchú’s play Transmission for Dublin

Fringe Festival 2020. PAGE 28 WHAT IS THE WORD SPEAKERS BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE 29 has has Daniel Reardon Daniel worked in Irish theatre, film, TV in Irish theatre, worked as Actor, Playwright, and radio for and Director Producer He tours nationally 50 years. with award and internationally companies, The winning theatre the Dane, Rehearsal, Playing Other Birds The Seagull and with Dead with Pan Pan, Lippy with Centre and This Beach which he was Brokentalkers, for Supporting nominated Best Theatre Actor, Irish Times Awards. Film and TV includes Eternal, The My Left Foot, Love The Extraordinary, Silver Tassie, . The Tudors Clinic, Fair City, As Playwright his stage plays include Spenser’s Laye, The Do, Abbey O.K. Thing To Theatre, Fun With Bamboo, Bewley’s Café Theatre Award , Nominated and Bleeding Poets Best New Play Irish Times Theatre Awards. He wrote many radio plays including the Daily Serial Riverrun. His poetry appears regularly in magazines and journals in Ireland and the U.K. He has two volumes, In The Lion House, Gallery Press and Fond Pageant, Somerville Press. WHAT IS THE WORD SPEAKERS BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE 30 trained at the Samuel Beckett Centre, trained at the Samuel Beckett Translations, The College Dublin. Theatre includes: Translations, Trinity National Theatre; Tassie, Plough and The Stars, The Silver , Donmar; Royal Court; Knives in Hens Sam Shepard Tribute, Arts Centre; Danse Morob, TheEmergencyRoom and Project All that fall at The Barbican, A Doll House, The Importance Birds, The Rehearsal, of Nothing, The Seagull and Other is King Lear in his Own Playing the Dane and Everyone Oedipus variations Home for Pan Pan; A Particle of Dread, Lyric for Field Day; Pentecost and Sam Shepard short stories Irish Times Theatre Awards; Theatre, Best actress nomination and A Whistle in the Dark Conversations on a Homecoming debut as Hedvig Helmar with Druid. Judith made her Abbey The Wild Duck in 2003 for in Laszlo Marton’s production of Best Actress in a Supporting which she won the Irish Times Queens of Clew, Role Award. Screen credits include Zanzibar Films, Darklands, Parallel Films, and Rig 45, Mopar & Out of Innocence, Subotica Films. Derry Girls, C4 & Hat Trick, , BBC. The Fall, and Over the Wall Defiant & Telegael, Judith Roddy WHAT IS THE WORD PAN PAN BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE 31 WHAT IS THE WORD PAN PAN BACK TO CONTENTS PAGE 32 was founded in 1993 by Co-Artistic by Co-Artistic in 1993 founded was Directors Aedín Cosgrove and Gavin Quinn. and Gavin Quinn. Aedín Cosgrove Directors and 43 new theatre has created The company the most its work to pieces, touring performance including venues worldwide, festivals and prestigious Center, the Centre, the Kennedy BAM, the Lincoln Sydney and Beijing, NCPA Barbican, Hau Berlin, and received multiple national Melbourne Festivals, Angel awards, including the Herald and international International Festival. Award at the Edinburgh Pan Pan has consistently examined Since its inception resisted the nature of its work and has and challenged formulas. Developing new settling into well-tried of the company’s performance ideas is at the centre to be individual mission, which is born from a desire of theatre and provide innovation in the development either through art. All the works created are original, an idiosyncratic the writing (original plays) or through Pan Pan tries to response to established writings. of expression and approach theatre as an open form that has grown has developed an individual aesthetic host of different from making performances in a theatre that Pan Pan situations and conditions. The creates is of a contemporary attitude. that are Pan Pan creates original performances audiences. accessible and engaging for diverse in unique Using various artistic disciplines conventions of combinations, we challenge the full production, theatre. From initial concept to we encourage collaboration, experimentation and originality in creative artists by providing the tools and artistic goals. opportunities to realise collaborators’

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