EPIPHANY A NEW PLAY BY BRIAN WATKINS DIRECTED BY GARRY HYNES IN ASSOCIATION WITH GALWAY— 1INTERNATIONAL — ARTS FESTIVAL UP NEXT A NEW PLAY BY BRIAN WATKINS A NEW PLAY BY NANCY HARRIS DIRECTED BY GARRY HYNES A Druid and Gate Theatre Co-Production Town Hall Theatre, Galway | 20 – 28 September 2019 Gate Theatre, Dublin | 2 – 26 October 2019 Cast Includes JANE BRENNAN RAE GRAY CILLIAN Ó GAIRBHÍ MARTY REA Tickets on sale now Druid.ie | Gatetheatre.ie— 2 — UP NEXT DRUID IN ASSOCIATION WITH GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS EPIPHANY A NEW PLAY BY BRIAN WATKINS CREATIVES DIRECTOR GARRY HYNES SET AND COSTUME DESIGN FRANCIS O’CONNOR COSTUME DESIGN DOREEN MCKENNA LIGHTING SINEAD MCKENNA A NEW PLAY BY SOUND IVAN BIRTHISTLE NANCY HARRIS MOVEMENT DAVID BOLGER MUSIC CONSULTANT CONOR LINEHAN DIRECTED BY CAST GARRY HYNES CHARLIE JUDE AKUWUDIKE ARAN GRACE BYERS AMES BILL IRWIN A Druid and Gate Theatre Co-Production SAM KATE KENNEDY LOREN JULIA MCDERMOTT Town Hall Theatre, Galway | 20 – 28 September 2019 FREDDY AARON MONAGHAN Gate Theatre, Dublin | 2 – 26 October 2019 MORKAN MARIE MULLEN TAYLOR RORY NOLAN KELLY MARTY REA Cast Includes JANE BRENNAN RAE GRAY TOWN HALL THEATRE, GALWAY 17 – 27 JULY 2019 CILLIAN Ó GAIRBHÍ MARTY REA PREVIEWS: PAVILION THEATRE, DÚN LAOGHAIRE 12 – 13 JULY 2019 Tickets on sale now Druid.ie | Gatetheatre.ie — 3 — PLAYWRIGHTS NOTE ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, I was our north star. They provided a scaffolding strolling the snow-dusted streets of Dublin for a play that sought to exist in a liminal alone when I was inhabited by a strange spell. space; between the unseen depths and I was here in Ireland working on another play the mysterious heights. My experience of of mine with the brilliant ensemble of Druid life feels so often stuck in that in-between, and Garry Hynes. I left rehearsal and entered like a comic-drama made cacophonous by a city that seemed at once mysterious yet our shouts to the higher and lower floors of familiar, the faintly falling snow calling to me living. And at times our cries don’t reach their like a siren song. I had been reading Joyce’s destinations. Desires outweigh reality. Fears The Dead, a story I first encountered long smother perspective. We leap and we fall and ago, but which now revisited me with an we fail. We love and we lose. Still, life goes on. inescapable sense of thrill. I wandered the But then, of course, there’s this other thing: 5pm dark, across the river and back again, we’re all going to die. passing parties and pubs, nowhere to be, with Joyce’s words recurring in my head like What to do? “We who must die demand a lapping waves of little epiphanies, shaping miracle,” Auden wrote. Perhaps Joyce knew a formless, hidden thing. Soon, a rare and we could better understand our grim end glorious feeling: that odd itch of a new with the sublime. He called the jottings in play. I flew back to New York and put aside his notebooks “epiphanies.” He saw music everything else I was working on. The play as the clearest path to achieving epiphany; came to me in a rush of only a few weeks. And the harmony of invisible elements, aligning soon I had the story of an unlikely assemblage a world filled with isolating disaccord, a of fumbling humans, barreling up and down disaccord that can at times make the land of the steps of life, grappling to reignite a the living feel like one of lonely exile. forgotten tradition. As I developed the play with Druid, a defining On a phone call a few weeks later, Garry question emerged: Why do people gather? Hynes offhandedly asked what I was working The best answers we found were food and on. I told her that I had just completed a loneliness. Death and tradition were up there first draft of a new piece called Epiphany, a too. But it seems there’s something written play sparked by The Dead that came to me into us that seeks company in the in-between. in an unexpected surge of inspiration. She People with whom we might stare in curiosity asked to read it. I said no. She asked again. at the unlit paths paved before us. And, if we’re I succumbed. Much to my surprise, a few lucky, people with whom we can step, arm in months later we were planning for production. arm, gripping the banisters of life, ascending or descending into a more or less spacious world. Our first conversation was the same as our most recent: “It’s all in the stairs,” we agreed. Brian Watkins As the play developed, the staircases were July 2019 — 4 — GRACE BYERS IN REHEARSAL FOR EPIPHANY (PHOTOGRAPH: SIMON LAZEWSKI) — 5 — OUR SUPPORTERS Thank You to all our Supporters – your generosity is invaluable and we thank you for the part you play. Through your support, you enable us to create more work of a world class standard and to plan for future productions. 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Bourke back into the The unique exhibition celebrates the longstanding rehearsal room. relationship between Druid and Brian Bourke. We hope you enjoy this special exhibition alongside Epiphany, as part of Druid’s year of new writing. (L-R) ANDREW BENNETT, RORY NOLAN, MAIRE MULLEN, ELEANOR WHITE, SEÁN MCGINLEY, PETER DALY, GARRY HYNES. GARRY PETER DALY, NOLAN, MAIRE MULLEN, ELEANOR WHITE, SEÁN MCGINLEY, RORY ANDREW BENNETT, (L-R) POST SHOW DISCUSSION FOR DRUID DEBUT DRUID FOR DISCUSSION POST SHOW BRIAN BOURKE IN REHEARSAL FOR EPIPHANY YOU BELONG TO ME TO BELONG YOU (PHOTOGRAPH: SIMON LAZEWSKI) (PHOTOGRAPH: BY RORY NOLAN 2018. NOLAN 2018. RORY BY — 8 — NEW WRITING Druid is a writers’ In addition to premiering plays by such internationally-acclaimed writers as Tom Murphy, Enda Walsh and Marina Carr, Druid theatre with a has introduced writers who have gone on to gain outstanding long track record reputations such as Martin McDonagh, Owen McCafferty, of premiering Christian O’Reilly and Lucy Caldwell. new plays of Each summer, the Druid Debut series features readings of a international number of new plays which have been submitted to the company under the open-call process. Playwrights are given professional stature. support, a director, cast and space in which to develop their script to a rehearsed reading level. Druid are now accepting scripts until 30th September 2019 via the online submission window. For more information visit www.druid.ie (L-R) ANDREW BENNETT, RORY NOLAN, MAIRE MULLEN, ELEANOR WHITE, SEÁN MCGINLEY, PETER DALY, GARRY HYNES. GARRY PETER DALY, NOLAN, MAIRE MULLEN, ELEANOR WHITE, SEÁN MCGINLEY, RORY ANDREW BENNETT, (L-R) POST SHOW DISCUSSION FOR DRUID DEBUT DRUID FOR DISCUSSION POST SHOW YOU BELONG TO ME TO BELONG YOU BY RORY NOLAN 2018. NOLAN 2018. RORY BY — 9 — PRODUCTION DEPUTY STAGE MANAGER SOPHIE FLYNN ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER EMMA COEN COSTUME SUPERVISOR ORLA LONG COSTUME ASSISTANT JINGYI ZHANG HAIR & MAKE UP VAL SHERLOCK MASTER CARPENTER GUS DEWAR CARPENTERS ARTHUR BELL PETE NELSON CHIEF ELECTRICIAN SHANNON LIGHT LIGHTING PROGRAMMER EOIN MCNINCH TECHNICIAN RICHARD CURWOOD SCENIC ARTIST RACHEL TOWEY PROPS GILL CHRISTIE GAVIN MORGAN CASTING CONSULTANTS MAUREEN HUGHES SARAH JONES US AND UK CASTING LAURA STANCZYK REHEARSAL PHOTOGRAPHY SIMON LAZEWSKI PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHY ROBBIE JACK GRAPHIC DESIGN GARETH JONES VIDEO MYLES SHELLY PR KATE BOWE PR THANK YOU Druid gratefully acknowledges the support of many people who assisted with this production and all those who helped after the programme went to print.