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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License PRESENTS Witness A Season of Smashing Times plays, readings and performance | 5-9 November | 2013 Project Arts Centre Dublin Smashing Times Theatre Company presents three plays and one showcase reading of new work over five days of visceral performance. Witness consists of: TESTIMONIES Tuesday 5, Wednesday 6 November, 8.15pm THOU SHALT NOT KILL Thursday 7 November, 8.15pm UPRISING Friday 8, Saturday 9 November, 8.15pm SHOwcasE READING OF NEW WORK Saturday 9 November, 2pm Witness Smashing Times Theatre Company presents three plays and one showcase reading of new work over five days of visceral performance exploring stories of new beginnings and emerging from difficult situations. Each performance is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists and invited guest speakers. Testimonies Tuesday 5, Wednesday 6 November, nightly 8.15pm TESTIMONIES CONSISTS OF: TESTIMONIES A Day Out Is There Anything We Can Do? By Paul Kennedy By Paul Kennedy SCHOOLS Directed by Bairbre Ní Chaoimh Directed by Ena May PERFORMANCE: Cast: Adam Traynor as Tony Cast: Margaret Toomey as Mrs Doyle A Day Out tells the story of two A mother fights the spectre of suicide Friday 8 friends in their twenties and their hanging over her family November, 11am last day together. Performance on 5 November Performances on 5, 6 November Do Not Go Gentle A DaY OUT In One Breath By Paul Kennedy By Paul Kennedy Written and Directed by Directed by Bairbre Ní Chaoimh Directed by Bairbre Mary Moynihan Cast: Gillian Hackett as Emily Ní Chaoimh Cast: Annette Flynn as Helen The fraility and resilience of a woman’s Cast: Adam T response to marital meltdown as she raynor Portrait of a woman in the eye of the storm, confronts the absurdity of her life in the battling mental illness context of the economic downturn. IN ONE BREatH Performances on 5, 6 November Performance on 6 November Written and Directed by Mary Moynihan estimonies is a highly-acclaimed professional theatre production consisting of dramatic monologues adapted from the experiences of people who have lost loved ones to suicide and from the experiences of Cast: Annette Flynn T people who have been through a mental health crisis and survived. Testimonies is presented as part of Acting for the Future, a project using theatre to promote positive mental health and suicide prevention and run IS THERE ANYTHING in partnership with the Samaritans and Irish Association of Suicidology with advice from a panel of advisors. WE CAN DO? The panel of advisor members are Dr John Connolly, Irish Association of Suicidology, Dr Ella Arensman, By Paul Kennedy Researcher, National Suicide Research Foundation, Maggie Hayden, Samaritans, Karen Ward, Holistic Psychotherapist and Mary Moynihan and Freda Manweiler for Smashing Times Theatre Company. Directed by Ena May Acting for the Future is supported by ESB ElectricAid Ireland and HSE. Each performance is followed by a Cast: post-show discussion with Karen Ward, Holistic Psychotherapist and invited guest speakers from the Samaritans. Margaret Toomey Audience members are invited to discuss the issues raised. Thou Shalt Not KillThursday 7 November, 8.15pm Living Theatre Installations Thou Shalt Not Kill Created by: Mary Moynihan By Paul Kennedy, commissioned and based Written by: Paul Kennedy on research and stories from Smashing Times Theatre Company An installation of ‘living theatre’ performances exploring Directed by Bairbre Ní Chaoimh themes of conflict, trauma and hope. Using the body as a Cast: Cathy White as Alice site of performance, memory and emotion, and centering on experiences of conflict in Northern Ireland, Thou Shalt Not Kill At home, on a dark and wet night, the phone rings and Alice is imagines the future through a remembrance of things past. The forced to remember. performance is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists and invited guest speaker Jim Arbuckle, Good Relations Facilitator from Derry/Londonderry. Crossings By Paul Kennedy, commissioned and based on Depth of My Being research, interviews, stories from Smashing Devised by Mary Moynihan and Fiona Bawn-Thompson and Times Theatre Company based on text from Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl Directed by Mary Moynihan Cast: Adam Traynor as Tom Directed by Mary Moynihan Cast: Fiona Bawn-Thompson as Fate Tom, an ex-combatant, reveals the memories that haunt him and explores the journey to peace that he is now on. Uprising Friday 8, Saturday 9 November, nightly 8.15pm Devised SHOwcasE READING Scripted Smashing T imes Theatre Company OF NEW WORK Tara McKevitt Directed Choreography Mary Moynihan Saturday 9 November, 2pm Movement Mark Flynn Mary Moynihan and Mark Flynn By Sinead O’Loughlin, Gerard Humphreys and Mary Moynihan. Readings are from the following plays: Cast Mark Flynn OUR NatIONAL Elsie, aged 99: Evelyn Shaw Shane/Grandfather GAMES Karen Killeen Margaret T oomey Colette/Combatant/Marie/Malala By Gerard Humphreys Young Woman, Adam Traynor Ghost Watcher/Glynis/Cynthia Orla: Romana mother to Ruth British Army Testasecca and Elsie, a ghost: Soldier/United Tom Moran Megan Olohan Paul Nolan Soldier/Taliban Suicide Bomber/YoungStates Army Man Daly: Manus/Gordon Wilson/General P Captain Kelly: Shane English NORA Setting: atton Krinnion: By Gerard Humphreys A derelict warehouse in East Belfast. Outside street protests Barry Kelleghan Nora: and a riot are taking place. Aisling Hamilton WAKE Father Bennis: fusion of text, movement and dance, Uprising is a multi-disciplinary performance By Sinéad O’Loughlin Robert Downes exploring memories and experiences of war and peace in Northern Ireland and internationally Annie: Aoife Aherne Jackie: Tamar Keane A and asks why do we kill for a cause, why do we die for a cause? Based on the company’s Mick: Graham Halley Seán: commitment to perform new work, Uprising Ryan O’Rourke-Glynn archive video material and new writing and usesis drawn visceral from movement, research, danceinterviews, and text speeches, to explore poems, AMANDA Proinsias: personal memories and experiences of war and peace and the struggle between peaceful non- By Sinéad O’Loughlin Shane English violence and physical force political violence. Performances followed by post-show discussions with Reading by Emma the artists and invited guest speakers Jim Arbuckle and Valerie Bistany, Good Relations Facilitators. Jane Purcell Special thanks to: DEAD SOULS Leah Moore, Lorna By Mary Moynihan Costello, Joshua Ruth, aged 99: MacLiam, Jennifer Therese Cahill Curran, Elaine Brown PRODUCTION CREDITS Producers Freda Manweiler, Sinéad O’Loughlin, SMASHING TIMES THEatRE COMPANY Karen O’Connor – THEatRE FOR CHANGE L ighting Design /Operator mashing Times Theatre Company is a professional Oida (creating the life of a human spirit on stage and the use Eoin Lennon theatre company involved in performance, training and of fundamental energies), Viola Spolin (the physical, intuitive, Sparticipation. The work of the company is underpinned invisible) and Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed. We are Costume Design by a rights-based approach and a commitment to artistic inspired by artists including Michael Chekhov, Jerzy Grotowski, Emma Downey excellence and social engagement. David Zinder, Anne Bogart and Patsy Rodenburg. The company was established in 1991 by a group of Smashing Times is committed to Theatre for Change, Set Design women actors, who met at the Focus Theatre, Dublin. using theatre as a form of knowledge and as a means of The Company Founding members include Mary Moynihan, Margaret Toomey transforming society, to promote social justice, human rights (Testimonies and and Gillian Hackett. The company has two high-profile patrons and equality for all. The company achieves its aims through Uprising), – Brian Friel and Tim Pat Coogan. Smashing Times Theatre implementing specific projects, which consist of professional Katie Smyth Company is supported by Dublin City Council Arts Office, theatre performances and post-show discussions, participative (Thou Shalt Not Kill), ESB ElectricAID Ireland, HSE, the European Union’s PEACE III theatre and storytelling workshops, creative symposiums and Joe Moynihan – Programme, the Reconciliation and Anti-Sectarianism Funds, professional outreach. JM Carpentry Anglo-Irish Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the International Fund for Ireland. For information on Smashing Times please visit Production/Stage Smashing Times Theatre Company is now established as www.smashingtimes.ie Manager a leading professional arts organisation that promotes social Telephone +353 (0)1 865 6613 Maeve Gormley justice and equality