Solas Nua presents a Double Billing of Summertime and Ar Ais Arís
Dates: November 1st-17th
Location: Eaton House (1203 K St NW, Washington, DC 20005)
Price: $45 for a ticket to both productions
Times:
Thursdays and Fridays:
Group 1 Tickets - Ar Ais Arís, followed by Summertime: 6:00pm & 7:30pm
Group 2 Tickets - Summertime, followed by Ar Ais Arís: 6:30pm & 8pm
Saturdays:
Group 1 Tickets - Ar Ais Arís, followed by Summertime: 2:00pm, 3:30pm, 6:00pm & 7:30pm
Group 2 Tickets - Summertime, followed by Ar Ais Arís: 2:30pm, 4:00pm, 6:30pm & 8pm
Sundays:
Group 1 Tickets - Ar Ais Arís, followed by Summertime: 2:00pm & 3:30pm
Group 2 Tickets - Summertime, followed by Ar Ais Arís: 2:30pm & 4:00pm
Summertime
from Murmuration
Generously supported by Culture Ireland
Murmuration and Solas Nua present Summertime, a live performance enhanced through headphones in an intimate, storytelling experience. Solas Nua's previous presentation of Murmuration's audio-installation, One Moment Now, was hosted by Tony-Award Winning Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company last fall.
“I try not to listen
But I don’t think he’s realised
Just drinks his pint
Like everything’s alright.”
This production offers a fresh spin of a romance story between Stash, an artist who works in a pub, and Steve, her boyfriend. With Stash's voice heard in the left headphone and Steve's in the right, the nuances of their relationship unfold simultaneously as they tell audiences how their relationship fell apart and found itself again - in unison. One thoughtless comment knocks the pair out of sync, and the fallout causes a rift that only deepens over the course of a summer. Hear both sides of the story, intricately rendered with a dynamic sound design from Jenny O'Malley, that synthesizes in the end with deep listening of dual perspectives. Praised by Dublin's The Arts Review as "heartfelt, genius, and beautifully executed."
Writer: James Elliott
Director: John King
Design: Ellen Kirk
Sound Design: Jennifer O’Malley
Associate Director: Ursula McGinn
Producer: Tilly Toyle
Cast: Rebecca Ballinger and Finbarr Doyle
ABOUT MURMURATION
Murmuration is a Dublin-based collective of theatre artists, making live, narrative sound installations in nontraditional spaces. We create rich, intricate soundscapes with the aim of fostering new ways of listening in our audiences. Our work is all about big-hearted close listening.
Through our work we seek to reposition audiences in relation to their surroundings, creating vivid imaginary worlds. We have performed in bars, shopfronts, glass-walled galleries, cafés, theatre foyers and public squares, without physically augmenting any of those spaces; aiming to find the extraordinary in ordinary and unlikely locations. We believe this approach to be particularly urgent now, when cultural spaces seem to be shrinking.
Murmuration formed in 2018 to present Summertime at Dublin Fringe Festival where it was nominated for a Judges Choice Award, before being shown at Drogheda Arts Festival and at the Abbey Young Curators’ Festival the following year. In 2020 our second production, Will I See You There, premiered at the Gallery of Photography in Temple Bar as part of Dublin Fringe Festival, and we presented a work-in-progress of a Christmas show for a shopping centre, so close i noticed my breath on the glass, as part of Corcadorca’s SHOW festival. In 2021 we were commissioned to make our third show You’re Still Here at Dublin Castle, co-presented by Dublin Fringe and the Abbey Theatre. While Artists in Residence at Bewley’s Café in 2022, we were commissioned to make One Moment Now, an audience-led audio experience for a solo listener at a café table. One Moment Now completed a three-venue US tour in 2023 (Baker’s Daughter and Woolly Mammoth, Washington D.C. and Tiny Dynamite, Philadelphia), presented by Solas Nua with support from Culture Ireland.
Ar Ais Arís
from Brú Theatre
Generously supported by Culture Ireland
Ar Ais Arís is a groundbreaking work from Brú Theatre that combines Irish language, literature, and visual poetry. Having captivated both sides of the Atlantic and making its US premiere with Solas Nua, Ar Ais Arís is hailed by the Irish Times as "absorbing, evocative and sometimes unsettling." In this work, Brú’s team of performers, creators, designers, and composers have come together to create three unique 180° films, immersing audiences in a fusion of movement, text, music, and Connemara landscape through the use of VR headsets.
Director: James Riordan
Performers: Victoria Mc Cormack, Stephanie Dufresne, Anna Mullarkey
Producer: Jill Murray
Dramaturg: Máiréad Ní Chróinín
Production Assistant: Kate McBrearty
Musician: Ciara O’Connor
Music Composer: Anna Mullarkey
Voice-Over, language consultant: Caitlín Ní Chualái
Sound Designer: Jenny O’Malley
VR cinematographer: Paul Kinsella
Costume Designer: Clíodhna Hallissey
Make-Up / Hair Designer: Michelle Ruane
Áistriú Creative Associate: Marianne Ní Chinnéide
ABOUT BRÚ THEATRE
Hello agus Fáilte. We are Brú Theatre, a theatre company based in Galway making work at the intersection between contemporary theatre forms and the languages, literatures and landscapes of where we are from. We use virtual reality, drag, physical theatre, new writing and mask merged with the traditions, superstitions and musicality in the work make, offering something new for audiences both in person and in digital spaces.
Brú Theatre’s core team are Artistic Director James Riordan and Producer Jill Murray. Since beginning in 2018, we have 7 productions to date and have toured nationally and internationally with our work. We’ve presented in some of the most prestigious festivals in Ireland and have Irish Times Theatre Award nominations for our work.
We’re committed to creating theatre and developing artists in the West of Ireland, making bilingual, multi-disciplinary work through a contemporary lens while running artist development programmes such as Remote Control and Brú School, programmes that are focused on supporting artists and art form development in the region.
