Double Bill: The Caoining & Was I Not A Girl

2 plays for the price of 1 ticket!

Full bar.

About: The Caoining

What makes a Banshee scream? Is it the warning of knowing when death will come, or 3o mins the painful cry to the ones who kill? Tensions exist in an insular echo-chamber: ‘Patrick’, a closeted, chronically online man, gets entranced and plots to kill his housemate, ‘Banshee’, who has the power to predict death. They share one sleeping bag in the back garden of a house in Swords, Dublin. When Patrick starts a conspiracy to kill her, he seeks advice from an online community of sinister white men. The audience is the impartial observer. This modern fable is a comedy in escalation, a murder play with roots of toxic masculinity. Who is society's true monster: the Banshee, or the sexually confused white man?

Written and performed by Roman Vai and Catie Grainger ‘Banshee’: Enya Donohue ‘Patrick’: Richard Neville ‘Swords Strangler’: Donnagh Mayock ‘Newswoman’: Venus Patel ‘Newsman’: Matthew McMahon. Directed by: Joy Nesbitt.

Awarded an IDGTF Bursary.

About: Was I Not a Girl

Louis, a transgender man, struggles to navigate the world of his own identity, relationships, and past decisions by conversing with an ambiguously gendered historical figure from beyond the grave—the Irish Dr. James Barry. When two very different yet very alike individuals come head-to-head, who will come out victorious? Can we ever truly let the dead rest? Past and present collide as ‘Was I Not A Girl’ explores our evolving definitions of manhood, separated by 200 years of history.

Awarded an IDGTF Bursary.

Written by Montgomery Quinlan
Directed by Jodie Sweeney
Performed by Cian Colbert & Montgomery Quinlan
Costume Design by Cat Heneghan, Photography by Jennifer Wilde