About The Show
Little Deviations is the name we’ve given to our rough and ready showcase of new works in development. Volume 1 took place in August 2013. Volume 2 took place from 3rd to 5th August in Cleere’s Theatre, Kilkenny as part of Alternative Kilkenny Arts. It featured work in progress showings of six new plays.
Orla’s Big Comeback
By Mairead Kiernan
Orla – Hazel Doyle
Directed by Philip Brennan
Orla’s life has been governed by Ireland AM for too long. 2,730 hours too long in fact but who’s counting? Orla, an ambitious journalism graduate, feels trapped by the hours that she has spent watching Ireland AM with her twin sister Dee, an Ireland AM super fan with severe health problems. However, the show Orla once resented so intently becomes a source of inspiration and solace to her when she is forced to stake out her own independence.
In The Basement
By Seán Delaney
Hugh – John Prendergast
Tom – Kevin Mooney
Sam – Aoibhín Murphy
Clare – Rosey Hayes
Directed by Aoibhín Murphy
Hugh really wants to be poet. However, he is inescapably and tediously bad at it. In frustration with his own shortcomings Hugh decides to look at all his favourite writers and see what they have in common; what is the special formula for brilliance? What he finds is tragedy, death, sexual escapades, and general debauchery… all of which he is going to try in the name of finding the Muses.
Breathe
By Alan Butler
Emily – Hazel Doyle
Emma – Amy Mulholland
Sarah – Maria Murray
Alice – Janis Woodgate
Grace – Eleanor Walsh
Nurse Kelly – John Prendergast
Voice – Ciarán Dunphy
Directed by Natasha Murray
Emily never thought she’d end up here, being interviewed by the hospital’s psychiatrist. But this is where she is and its what she needs to do. The stories she will tell and hear will shape her. From where she came from to where she’s going. Five women, five stories. What do you do, when you can’t keep going?
INTERMISSION
Welcome To Ireland
by Robert Downes & Aoibhín Murphy
Damien – Robert Downes
Maggie – Aoibhín Murphy
Bill – Fergal Miller
Directed by Niall Bambrick
Welcome to Ireland. Welcome to the land of tradition. Welcome to the land of high rent, high tuition and getting high. Welcome to the land of art and culture. Welcome to the land of the green drugs, the white people and… oh wait, there is no gold. Welcome to the lives of the millennials. Welcome to the flat of Bryan, Maggie and Damien. Welcome to their world as struggling artists. Welcome to their stuffy staff-room, which is also their littered living room, in their shoddy Tourist Gift Shop. Welcome to their lives working for Bill, their bitter boss who loathes the arts and the people in them.Welcome to the night that it all gets out of control…
Ag An Doras
By Simone Kelly
Úna – Alexandra Christle
Maureen – Maria Murray
Spock – Ciarán Dunphy
Garda Dessie – Seán Hackett
Directed by John Morton
Úna is on her annual visit to her family, the O’Sullivan’s in Kilkenny. Every time Úna visits, a familiar sight signals her arrival. A tall, elderly lady nicknamed Ag an Doras stands in a doorway, slowly smoking a cigarette, watching silently as the world goes by. On this occasion, however, her door is closed. Úna makes it her mission to uncover the story behind Ag an Doras and why the mysterious figure is no longer at the door.
The Roaring Banshees
By Peter McGann & John Morton
‘Red’ Alice Bannion – Hazel Fahy
Kitty ‘The Knife’ McGillicutty – Jacqui Purcell
Molly Malone – Ailín Farrell
Bernadette McGurk – Amy Mulholland
Concepta Bloom – Rosey Hayes
Flossie ‘The Farmer’ Farrell – Aoibhín Murphy
Siona na gCopaleen – Niamh Moyles
Directed by Kevin Mooney
Ireland, 1923. After a failed assassination attempt on Eamon De Valera, a rogue unit of Cumann na mBan flee to prohibition era Chicago where they set up a poitin bootlegging operation. Soon they are embroiled in a violent turf war with Al Capone’s Outfit. So begins the tale of The Roaring Banshees…
THE CREW
Show Director – Kevin Mooney
Producers – Ken McGuire, Niamh Moroney, John Morton
Production Design by Eddie Brennan
Lights by Jack Power
Sound by David Brydone
Poster Design by Julien Regnard
Design Concept by Paddy Dunne
Front Of House by Orla McGovern