Adapted by Tom Swift & Jo Mangan
Directed by Jo Mangan
First Presented
Dublin Fringe Festival 2002
Gulliver’s Travels meets The Third Policeman in this (quite literally) half-arsed comedy. Naive young philosopher Candide is expelled from the Castle Thunder-ten-Tronckt and sets off around the globe in search of his sweetheart Cunegonde. On the way he meets the daughter of Pope Urban X (a lady with one less buttock than usual), monkey-loving Amazonians and a whirling dervish who may or may not hold the secret of life. The Performance Corporation’s hugely energetic production is a brilliantly surreal satire on war, religion, greed and gardening.
Cast:
Cantiori Choir, Damien Devaney, Lynda Gough,
Michael Hayes, Fergal McElherron, Regan O’ Brien,
Stephen Swift.
Production Designers:
Set Design … Sinead O’Hanlon & Sinead Woods
Lighting Design … Sinead McKenna
Costume Design … Suzanne Keogh
Sound Design … Paul Brennan
The Company:
Joshua Baraud, Colm Hogan, Peter Johnston
Kevin McCaughey, Pat McDevitt, Cerstin Mudiwa
Bairbre Sexton, Christopher Swift.
