Solar Bones
Kilkenny Arts Festival in partnership with Rough Magic, in association with Watergate Theatre presents SOLAR BONES by Mike McCormack in an adaptation by Michael West. Premiering at the Kilkenny Arts Festival August 2020.
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Since its foundation in 1984 Rough Magic has built an organisation characterised by continual regeneration. Its adherence to artistic excellence, pluralism, and an egalitarian approach to the creative ensemble, has delivered 130 theatre productions, over 64 Irish premieres, the debuts of many theatre-makers, and the pioneering SEEDS programme.
Read MoreRough Magic had a very busy 2019, with the world premiere of Cleft, Much Ado About Nothing and Hecuba all getting four-star reviews, packing out venues around Ireland and in the Dublin Theatre Festival.
2020 starts with our SEEDS showcase production Venus In Fur by David Ives, a much-celebrated dive into the dark world of sadomasochism by one of America’s sharpest and funniest writers, which is the culmination of SEEDS 9. Later in the year we plan to deepen and expand the programme in a new format, to be launched in its 20th anniversary in 2021.
The year continues with our Residency of the Long Room Hub in Trinity College Dublin, supported by the Global Brain Health Institute and the Hub to develop The Choir Project, our new theatre piece about choral participation around Ireland. And an exhibition in Trinity’s fabulous Long Room of exhibits from the Rough Magic Archive.
And we look forward to launching our new Methuen Anthology of Rough Magic plays and adaptations 2010 – 2018, edited by Patrick Lonergan.
In August we will return to the stage with live performances of Solar Bones by Mike McCormack in an adaptation by Michael West. This production reunites us with our friends and partners at Kilkenny Arts Festival and the Watergate Theatre.
All of this is brought to you by the Rough Magic management team: General Manager Gemma Reeves, Producer Selina O’Reilly, Associate Director and SEEDS curator Ronan Phelan and Artistic Director Lynne Parker.
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Since 2001 Rough Magic has been the pioneer of artist development in Irish theatre, through its SEEDS programme for emerging artists – based on mentoring, research and creative engagement. SEEDS has been Ireland’s premiere development programme for the past nineteen years; we now intend to design a new iteration to take us into the next decade.
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