Official site of Kilkenny-based theatre company, The Devious Theatre Company. Find details on Heart Shaped Vinyl, Cannibal The Musical, Trainspotting, Smitten and The War Of The Worlds.
2009 proved to be quite an eventful year for us folks at The Devious Theatre Company. In previous years, we had set a template of one large scale show during the summer in June and a smaller scale show, usually … Continue reading
More excitement on the Kilkenny theatre front as our old alma mater Dreamstuff Youth Theatre are this week launching their annual December production in the Watergate Theatre. (Dreamstuff Youth Theatre is kind of a Hogwarts for theatre types in Kilkenny… … Continue reading
With Accidental Death Of An Anarchist winded down, we’ve time to update a few other bits and bobs from this year. Over the next week or two, we’ll be releasing a selection of clips from our 2009 production of Willy … Continue reading
In the parlance of Accidental Death Of An Anarchist, we’ve jumped through the square window, cleared the fourth floor and there’s three more floors to clear before we hit the ground. That’s a fairly over elaborate metaphor but hey, it … Continue reading
So, we’ve finally done it. We’ve gone and opened our latest show, Dario Fo’s Accidental Death Of An Anarchist, at the Set Theatre in Kilkenny. We opened last night which means today, we’re a little bit more relaxed. I’ve never … Continue reading
Born in 1926 near the Lago Maggiore in North Italy, Dario Fo has been Italy’s foremost dramatist and satirist in a career that has spanned 50 years. The man is a legend in theatre. Raised in a village of storytellers, … Continue reading
Accidental Death Of An Anarchist, the first part of our Dario Fo season of works, took to the stage at Set Theatre in December 2009. As a theatre company, we were the first to utilise the award-winning venue for a full-scale theatrical performance, the venue having opened for the Kilkenny Arts Festival of that year. Accidental Death’ would be followed up by Fo’s Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! in March of 2010. Continue reading
Simone Kelly has previously appeared for us in Heart Shaped Vinyl, Cannibal! The Musical and Trainspotting. In the last of our interviews with the cast of Accidental Death Of An Anarchist, we turn the questions on the lady who asks … Continue reading
