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, …
The world is shifting, and with it, a new kind of world order is emerging. Amidst the tumult of change and the overwhelming sense of “wrongness,” people continue to gather, forming collectives in unexpected spaces – industrial estates, old churches, community halls, and more. These microsocieties, united by a shared love of creation and expression, …
A Different Wolf is a new dance opera created by multi-award winning Junk Ensemble and innovative music-theatre company Dumbworld (Belfast). What is the wolf at your door? Fear isn’t so difficult to understand. Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. It’s just a different wolf. – Alfred Hitchcock Personal …
A life revealed in an endless sea of hand written plastic boxes, music, hiss, wow, and flutter. Fear and love magnetically embedded on a spool of tiny tape that hurtles along at 1¾ inches per second. Titles felt tipped on the side – Sad, Friday night, Just Dumped, Drinking, Bright New Day.
The operas include a chorus of office workers celebrating the joys of a smoke break, an ironing board singing a sexy serenade to an iron and a couple of gun totting grannies on Zimmer frames planning a hit on an errant husband.