Blending performance, video, archive testimony and live electronic music, the duo meet present-day migrants, activists and strangers along the route, asking who gets to draw the lines between us and them. Performed in English, French and Italian with integrated subtitles, Aliens is an ‘ambitious, memorable piece that treats familiar themes in new, even alien ways’ …
Around 20 exceptional young artists from Belfast and beyond, making brand new performance work – fusing music, text, movement and voice. No one’s here to teach you the “right” way. You’re not being represented, you’re the author. This is about generating something new, radical, exciting and more… A series of five free Saturday workshops will …
A bone will never speak its secrets – but perhaps it can sing them. After its premiere at Kilkenny Arts Festival (KAF), Where We Bury the Bones – the latest groundbreaking work from multi-award-winning duo John McIlduff and Brian Irvine (Olivier Award-nominated and four-time Ivor Novello winner) of Dumbworld – arrives at The Lyric Theatre, …
On the 13th of December, Meliton Shishkin had a thought, a bold, life-altering thought: I want to feel better. Not just better in the fleeting, shallow sense, but truly better. He wanted to know who he was and to understand his place in this violent, unstable world of ours. The Pipe by Anton Checkov is …
“short, sharp, sardonic commentaries on the climate crisis… anarchic and funny ” – The Times Nominee Ivor Novello Classical Award [2023] Brian Irvine for Best Stage Work The Scorched Earth Trilogy is a trio of satirical films inspired by environmental disaster and the lack of serious climate action. The short works tackle some of our most pressing …
Winner Ivor Novello Classical Award [2024] Brian Irvine for Best Community and Participation Composition (ABRSM) Inspired by the 1931 publication ‘La Anarquia Explicada a Los Niños’, an instructional manual for children published during the Spanish Civil War that explained the ideas and practises of anarchy – composer Brian Irvine and director John McIlduff in …
Imagine Super Mario Brothers meets Mario Lanza, Mickey Mouse, whales, bats, birds and Jeff Bezos all battling it out for the future of our very own planet earth. A New Topography of Love tells the tale of the earth – ravaged by waste and excess and almost too late to save – but the animals …