Fancy going on the pull? Tonight's the night that Pulled takes its hometown bow in Kilkenny. Niamh Moroney's play took Waterford by storm during its run in Central Arts and now it's about to kick off a three night run in Set Theatre. This will also be our final outing for 2016, bringing our Devious 10 programme to a close after 3 shows in the last 5 months (we're tired now).
The buzz for Pulled has been massive and the pre sales for the show have exceeded that for Heart Shaped Vinyl and The Hellfire Squad in Kilkenny.
A recent review from Waterford News and Star wrote:
"Niamh Moroney and Andrea Bolger act with a naturalness and an openness that is a joy... Ita Morrissey directs this Big Brother writ small with the sureness of a participant in the soap opera of Amanda and Michelle's life..."
Niamh sat down with fellow Devious founder Ken McGuire to have a chat about Pulled on KCLR96FM on Tuesday. You can listen to it on Ken's website right here.
Niamh also wrote an account of the development and making of the show which you can read on her own site right here.
There's nothing left to do but make sure that you've got your tickets because they're selling fast. Three performances only in Set from tonight with kick off at 8pm. Tickets are €12 and can be bought from Rollercoaster Records on Kieran Street and online right here.
Photos by Dan McMahon Photography.
We're now one week off the opening of Pulled in Set Theatre, Kilkenny. After a smash hit run in Waterford with our production partners at Central Arts, the show is ready to take a hometown bow. Following on from Heart Shaped Vinyl and The Hellfire Squad, this final production of our Devious 10 programme is strutting onto the stage next Thursday for 3 nights only. It marks our first return to Set Theatre since our Dario Fo Season back in 2009/10.
Here's what some of the press have been saying about the show.
"This play will appal some, infuriate others but the characterisations are shamefully real" - The Munster Express"Niamh Moroney has again given us an insight into the millennial generation... she has devised a piece that lightens the sombre elements with plenty of laugh out loud moments" - The Kilkenny People
Andrea Bolger and Niamh Moroney have been playing a blinder under the direction of Ita Morrissey and the story of two girls struggling with meaningful life decisions as they fight the fear through an alcoholic, Snapchatting blur is going down a storm with audiences. Avoid the crippling fear and make sure you get your tickets.
Photos by Dan McMahon Photography.
After a successful run down in Waterford with our production partners Central Arts last week, we're a week off the opening of Niamh Moroney's Pulled in Kilkenny's Set Theatre.
Here's the lowdown on the two performers who have been tearing the stage up as Amanda and Michelle.
Niamh Moroney - Amanda / WriterNiamh Moroney has been a theatre maker for over 10 years. Since co founding Devious Theatre in Kilkenny in 2006 Niamh has directed, produced, written, performed, and toured a mix of circus, visual art, music, live art, and theatre. YER WAN, Niamh’s self penned and performed comedy show toured nationally to sell out venues in 2014/15 and won Best Solo Performance at Galway Fringe Festival. Previous acting work with Devious Theatre includes Heart Shaped Vinyl, Smitten, Night Of The Living Dead and Shakespeare In Bits. She also directed War Of Attrition and Trainspotting. Niamh is currently artist in residence in Central Arts. Pulled is Niamh's first staged written work for Devious Theatre.Andrea Bolger - MichelleAndrea Bolger makes her Devious Theatre debut with this show. Originally from Carlow and now based in Dublin, she completed a degree in Drama and Theatre Studies in U.C.C. Cork, where she performed in productions of Medea, The Bloody Wedding and Fortinasbras gets Drunk. She also trained in the Gaiety School of Acting and Bow Street. She last performed in Absolute Beginners, written and directed by Diane Crotty at the Scene and Heard festival in Smock Alley.Pulled opens in Set Theatre, Kilkenny on September 29th and runs until October 1st. You can get your tickets at www.set.ie.
The pride strut kicks off tonight when the first performance of Pulled takes place in Central Arts in Waterford.
Niamh Moroney's new play will take its debut bow in the home of our production partners on the show and it marks the first time that a Devious Theatre production has taken a trip to our neighbouring county. Niamh along with director Ita Morrissey and fellow performer Andrea Bolger have been working hard in the rehearsal room the past couple of weeks and now the show will take its walk of pride onto the stage.
It runs in Waterford until this Saturday September 17th at 8pm nightly. If you want to ensure your tickets, you can grab them right here. It won't be long until the play comes home to Kilkenny either, we'll be arriving in Set Theatre on September 29th and playing until October 1st. Come strut with us...
Amanda and Michelle are feeling the worse for wear in the new trailer for Pulled. Can they fight the fear and pull their shit together?
Rehearsals are nearly at their end for Niamh Moroney's new show and the final part of our Devious 10 programme for 2016. Niamh along with co-performer Andrea Bolger and director Ita Morrissey have been putting the finishing touches to the play ahead of next weeks opening in Central Arts, our production partners on this show. It opens on Tuesday September 13th and runs until Saturday September 17th. It won't be long before it arrives in Kilkenny. Three performances only from September 29 to October 1st in Set Theatre Kilkenny. Get your tickets here: http://set.ie/
Check out the trailer, shot and edited by Matthew Reilly.
Tickets for the show are €12 and you can get yours for Pulled in Waterford right here. To buy tickets for the Kilkenny run, check out set.ie.
Take a peek into the world of Amanda and Michelle with our first trailer for Pulled.
Niamh Moroney's new show is a co-production with Central Artsin Waterford and we're very excited to finally make our debut in our neighbouring county. Rehearsals have just kicked off for production and it won't be long until these two ladies will be hitting the stage like a wrecking ball.
Pulled opens in Waterford on September 13th and plays Set Theatre Kilkenny from September 29th to October 1st. Written by Niamh Moroney, directed by Ita Morrissey and starring Andrea Bolger and Niamh Moroney. It's going to be a night out you'll never forget.
Check out the trailer, shot and edited by Matthew Reilly.
Tickets for the show are €12 and you can get yours for Pulled in Waterford right here. To buy tickets for the Kilkenny run, check out set.ie.
And we're onto the next one.
The third and final part of our Devious 10 programme is Pulled by Niamh Moroney.
A comedy about two girls fightin' the fear. Who will pull through? Amanda or Michelle? Maybe they'll just pull the heads off each other... Join these two man eating club stomping wans as they battle one of the worst hangovers of their lives as they attempt to follow a trail of snapchats, texts, and selfies back to memories long lost to shots- what and who they did last night?! How did Michelle end up here, where the hell was Amanda? Or... do they even want to know?
Following Niamh's highly successful self penned & produced tour of YER WAN in 2014 & 2015, Pulled continues to explore the debacle of being a young woman on the pull in this day and age. How do young women react to a crisis when the odds are against them in pretty much every single way?
Pulled marks a major new collaboration between the two South East companies, Central Artsof Waterford, and Devious Theatre of Kilkenny, and is the third production in the celebration of Devious's 10th birthday. It is also the second in house production Central Arts will present around the time they are officially celebrating their second birthday.
Pulled will be performed by Niamh Moroney and Andrea Bolger who makes her debut with us. The show is directed by Ita Morrissey who we are delighted to welcome on board for the first time. It is produced by John O'Connell of Central Arts.
Pulled premieres in Central Arts, Waterford from September 13th-17th. It follows up with a three night run in the Set Theatre, Kilkenny from September 29th-October 1st.
The work is nearly over. And what a week it's been. We've been bowled over by the houses, the reaction, the applause. It's been terrific to bring the show to a hometown audience as part of the AKA festival. And thankfully it's all been going down a storm. Thank you from the bottom of our heart to everyone who has attended the show and supported its run both in Dublin and in Kilkenny.
And now the curtain is closing. We're down to the last performance of The Hellfire Squad tonight in The Watergate Theatre. It's your final chance to see the show before it becomes history. Don't miss your last opportunity to see us. We're going out with all guns blazing.
If you want to get tickets for the final show you can book them on 056-7761674 or online here.
God bless the work.
The History:The Squad, originally nicknamed the Twelve Apostles, was a real life unit that were founded by Michael Collins in the run up to the War Of Independence. Their main goal was to counteract British Intelligence at this time, through means mostly focusing on assassinations. They did, as we term it in the play ‘the dirty work of a nation.’ Although they didn’t exclusively have twelve members, the Squad rotated membership and to this day, the full extent of Squad members isn’t entirely known.
It was a job, with a wage and many outsiders, men not fit for many other purposes, gravitated towards this assassination unit. While there weren’t any documented female members of the Squad, a lot of Collins central intelligence agents were women. And more so than their male counterparts of the time, they were written out of the subsequent history.
The Inspiration:
We came up with the idea when discussing Inglourious Basterds and the men-on-a-mission adventure movies that inspired it, and decided to write an Irish version of those stories. We found the perfect subject matter: an alternate secret history of the origins of Michael Collins’ infamous hit squad.
The codename of the squad itself, the name of our villain Francis Dashwood, and the fire-and-brimstone tone came from setting it at the foot of the Wicklow Mountains near the notorious Hellfire Club. We started working on it in a flurry of excitement back in 2009. It was a Western and a War yarn at once, a Commando comic on the stage. Countless movies and the untold tales of Irish history inspired it.
Thematically, we were interested in telling a story of people who were written out of subsequent Irish history. Particularly the women of the Rising and Cumann na mBan who subsequently had their roles downplayed. In the 1916 centenary year, writing a play about the fervor it created in people after the rebellion felt like an interesting take. People who wanted an important role.
This is the idea behind Kathleen Sweeney as narrator. She’s giving a voice to the voiceless, people like herself who fought for an Ireland that turned on them. Betrayal, at its essence, is what drives this story and we didn’t have to stray too far from history to utilise that. Despite our cinematic influences, making it as a play has always felt like Sean O’Casey and Dion Boucicault having a conversation mediated by Bertolt Brecht. That was the ‘highbrow’ intention anyway. The main intention was a cracking night’s entertainment. We hope you get that.
The Execution:
After intermittently working on it over the years, we took the script for a spin in August 2013. We did our first work in progress performance at Little Deviations: Volume 1, directed by Philip Brennan.
All the potential of the piece was there. Thanks to Artlinks support we were able to get Ken Bourke on board to provide dramaturgy for the script and he helped us develop it throughout 2015 and into this year. Getting a talented director like Sarah Baxter and getting the brilliant cast we did was the cherry on top.
For Devious Theatre’s 10th birthday in 2016, not to mention the centenary of the 1916 Rising, it felt like the right production to do. It’s like one big mish mash of ten years of Devious Theatre in one show. It’s about a motley troupe, ill resourced and against the odds, trying to tell their stories during a tumultuous time in Irish history. Fitting enough.
Peter McGann & John Morton
A mighty weeks labour indeed.
The Dublin run of The Hellfire Squad is done and dusted. Thanks so much to everyone who came to see it and support it and thanks particularly to the staff of Project Arts Centre for all their help. This was our third production in Project Cube and quite accidentally, the three shows all had a focus on the 1916 Rising: Scratcher, War Of Attrition and now The Hellfire Squad. Nice to tie up this informal trilogy with sell out shows across the board. God bless the work indeed.
Now it's a new week, a new city, a new theatre. We're bringing fresh hell to The Watergate Theatre this week for our hometown run of The Hellfire Squad. It's always a pleasure to bring work to Kilkenny's largest theatre and we can't wait to settle in for the run. We're also delighted to open the first night of AKA Kilkenny's fringe festival.
If you want to get excited about the show, here's some of the notices for The Hellfire Squad from the Project run.
"McGann and Morton's script manages to be historically accurate and hilarious" - Sunday Business Post."A modern Irish classic" - Pure M Magazine"Admirably, the playmakers are more interested in a reclamation project, restoring these secret fighters to the record." - Exeunt Magazine"The play zips along at breakneck speed under the tight direction of Sarah Baxter" - The Kilkenny People"An innovative view of the period and shows that we don’t have to treat the heroes of yesteryear with solemnity." - No More Workhorse
You'll find out for yourself when The Hellfire Squad comes out with all guns blazing this Thursday night in Kilkenny. If you missed out on tickets for Heart Shaped Vinyl, our first Devious 10 production back in May, you won't want to miss out on this. You can book tickets in The Watergate Theatre on 056-7761674 and online right here.
Fancy going on the pull? Tonight's the night that Pulled takes its hometown bow in Kilkenny. Niamh Moroney's play took Waterford by storm during its run in Central Arts and now it's about to kick off a three night run in Set Theatre. This will also be our final outing for 2016, bringing our Devious 10 programme to a close after 3 shows in the last 5 months (we're tired now).
The buzz for Pulled has been massive and the pre sales for the show have exceeded that for Heart Shaped Vinyl and The Hellfire Squad in Kilkenny.
A recent review from Waterford News and Star wrote:
"Niamh Moroney and Andrea Bolger act with a naturalness and an openness that is a joy... Ita Morrissey directs this Big Brother writ small with the sureness of a participant in the soap opera of Amanda and Michelle's life..."
Niamh sat down with fellow Devious founder Ken McGuire to have a chat about Pulled on KCLR96FM on Tuesday. You can listen to it on Ken's website right here.
Niamh also wrote an account of the development and making of the show which you can read on her own site right here.
There's nothing left to do but make sure that you've got your tickets because they're selling fast. Three performances only in Set from tonight with kick off at 8pm. Tickets are €12 and can be bought from Rollercoaster Records on Kieran Street and online right here.
Photos by Dan McMahon Photography. 
We're now one week off the opening of Pulled in 
Andrea Bolger and Niamh Moroney have been playing a blinder under the direction of Ita Morrissey and the story of two girls struggling with meaningful life decisions as they fight the fear through an alcoholic, Snapchatting blur is going down a storm with audiences. Avoid the crippling fear and make sure you get your 
After a successful run down in Waterford with our production partners 
The pride strut kicks off tonight when the first performance of Pulled takes place in 
It runs in Waterford until this Saturday September 17th at 8pm nightly. If you want to ensure your tickets, you can grab them right 
Amanda and Michelle are feeling the worse for wear in the new trailer for Pulled. Can they fight the fear and pull their shit together?
Rehearsals are nearly at their end for Niamh Moroney's new show and the final part of our Devious 10 programme for 2016. Niamh along with co-performer Andrea Bolger and director Ita Morrissey have been putting the finishing touches to the play ahead of next weeks opening in
Take a peek into the world of Amanda and Michelle with our first trailer for Pulled.
Niamh Moroney's new show is a co-production with 
And we're onto the next one.
The third and final part of our Devious 10 programme is Pulled by Niamh Moroney.
A comedy about two girls fightin' the fear. Who will pull through? Amanda or Michelle? Maybe they'll just pull the heads off each other... Join these two man eating club stomping wans as they battle one of the worst hangovers of their lives as they attempt to follow a trail of snapchats, texts, and selfies back to memories long lost to shots- what and who they did last night?! How did Michelle end up here, where the hell was Amanda? Or... do they even want to know?
The work is nearly over. And what a week it's been. We've been bowled over by the houses, the reaction, the applause. It's been terrific to bring the show to a hometown audience as part of the AKA festival. And thankfully it's all been going down a storm. Thank you from the bottom of our heart to everyone who has attended the show and supported its run both in Dublin and in Kilkenny.
And now the curtain is closing. We're down to the last performance of The Hellfire Squad tonight in The Watergate Theatre. It's your final chance to see the show before it becomes history. Don't miss your last opportunity to see us. We're going out with all guns blazing.
If you want to get tickets for the final show you can book them on 056-7761674 or online 
The History:
The Squad, originally nicknamed the Twelve Apostles, was a 
It was a job, with a wage and many outsiders, men not fit for many other purposes, gravitated towards this assassination unit. While there weren’t any documented female members of the Squad, a lot of Collins central intelligence agents were women. And more so than their male counterparts of the time, they were written out of the subsequent history.
The Inspiration:
We came up with the idea when discussing Inglourious Basterds and the men-on-a-mission adventure movies that inspired it, and decided to write an Irish version of those stories. We found the perfect subject matter: an alternate secret history of the origins of Michael Collins’ infamous hit squad.
The codename of the squad itself, the name of our villain Francis Dashwood, and the fire-and-brimstone tone came from setting it at the foot of the Wicklow Mountains near the notorious 
Thematically, we were interested in telling a story of people who were written out of subsequent Irish history. Particularly the women of the Rising and 
This is the idea behind Kathleen Sweeney as narrator. She’s giving a voice to the voiceless, people like herself who fought for an Ireland that turned on them. Betrayal, at its essence, is what drives this story and we didn’t have to stray too far from history to utilise that. Despite our cinematic influences, making it as a play has always felt like Sean O’Casey and Dion Boucicault having a conversation mediated by Bertolt Brecht. That was the ‘highbrow’ intention anyway. The main intention was a cracking night’s entertainment. We hope you get that.
The Execution:
After intermittently working on it over the years, we took the script for a spin in August 2013. We did our first work in progress performance at 
All the potential of the piece was there. Thanks to Artlinks support we were able to get Ken Bourke on board to provide dramaturgy for the script and he helped us develop it throughout 2015 and into this year. Getting a talented director like Sarah Baxter and getting the brilliant cast we did was the cherry on top.
For Devious Theatre’s 10th birthday in 2016, not to mention the centenary of the 1916 Rising, it felt like the right production to do. It’s like one big mish mash of ten years of Devious Theatre in one show. It’s about a motley troupe, ill resourced and against the odds, trying to tell their stories during a tumultuous time in Irish history. Fitting enough.
Peter McGann & John Morton
A mighty weeks labour indeed.
The Dublin run of The Hellfire Squad is done and dusted. Thanks so much to everyone who came to see it and support it and thanks particularly to the staff of 
Now it's a new week, a new city, a new theatre. We're bringing fresh hell to The Watergate Theatre this week for our hometown run of The Hellfire Squad. It's always a pleasure to bring work to Kilkenny's largest theatre and we can't wait to settle in for the run. We're also delighted to open the first night of
If you want to get excited about the show, here's some of the notices for The Hellfire Squad from the Project run.
"McGann and Morton's script manages to be historically accurate and hilarious" - Sunday Business Post.
"A modern Irish classic" - Pure M Magazine
"Admirably, the playmakers are more interested in a reclamation project, restoring these secret fighters to the record." - Exeunt Magazine
"The play zips along at breakneck speed under the tight direction of Sarah Baxter" - The Kilkenny People
"An innovative view of the period and shows that we don’t have to treat the heroes of yesteryear with solemnity." - No More Workhorse
You'll find out for yourself when The Hellfire Squad comes out with all guns blazing this Thursday night in Kilkenny. If you missed out on tickets for Heart Shaped Vinyl, our first Devious 10 production back in May, you won't want to miss out on this. You can book tickets in The Watergate Theatre on 056-7761674 and online right 
