This is a message Louise White and Kate Nic Chonaonaigh received via Facebook after last night’s performance of From the Heart (name withheld): ‘I hope you’ll pardon me for my intrusion via Facebook message, but I just wanted to take a moment and tell you how brilliant I thought FROM THE HEART was this evening. [...]
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Sara Keating “I need to be loved,” says the young woman walking up the rickety staircase of the house on North Great George’s Street where this intimate site-specific curio, From the Heart , unfolds. With its mouldering plasterwork and skeletal floorboards the building’s dereliction is a metaphor for the crumbling lives of the building’s inhabitants, [...]
The 67A bus stop on Westmorland St. is one of my new favourites. Waiting for the bus out to Castletown House with the cast of Soh I recognised a familiar feeling from years ago. That magic School-Tour feeling. Where your lunch is packed away – and slightly more exciting than a regular day’s lunch – [...]
It has been very exciting since we announced our SPACE Production Award – production support offered to shows programmed in this year’s Absolut Fringe. After a briefing session with interested artists in the Absolut Fringe headquarters at the beginning of May, the applications started pouring in. The panel were delighted at the diversity of the [...]
The charm of Castletown House has not worn off for me yet, and I am always reminded of it’s beauty coming into work in the morning. With Jo away in Washington DC, auditioning for our epic 2011 co-production with Solas Nua, and Irene working part-time, it can get lonely at times, working on my own [...]
