Manus Halligan will be performing in the Award winning Lost Lear as part of the Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of Art : https://www.festival.nz/events/all/lost-lear/.
Manus received an Irish Times Best Supporting Actor Nomination for his wonderful performance.
Devastating stuff, deftly done…Colley is a theatre maker of remarkable imagination and insight
– The Stage
A moving and darkly comic interpretation of Shakespeare’s play told from the point of view of Joy, a person with dementia, who is living in an old memory of rehearsing King Lear.
Joy’s delicately maintained reality is upended by the arrival of her estranged son who, cast as Cordelia, must find a way to speak his mind from within the role he’s given.
Critically acclaimed Irish theatre maker Dan Colley’s visually stunning production uses puppetry, projection and live video to create the multiple layers of Joy’s world as past and present, fiction and reality, overlap and distort.
Lost Lear is a thought-provoking meditation on theatre, artifice and how to communicate across the chasms that divide us.
With a swathe of five-star reviews and award nominations, this is your opportunity to catch this “brilliantly conceived and executed” (Irish Examiner) show right here in Wellington.
This work contains strong language and adult themes.
There is a post-show talk on Friday 15 March.
Following Lost Lear Manus will also be performing in A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings at the Auckland Arts Festival.
Dan Colley & Riverbank Arts Centre
For lovers of exquisite, beautifully crafted theatre, a magical realist gem inspired by legendary novelist Gabriel García Márquez’s darkly comic fairy tale.
In a kitchen, two storytellers discover something remarkable – an old man with wings – and invite us to speculate who he is. A neighbour believes he’s an angel. A priest claims he’s an imposter. Pilgrims flock to see him, hoping to be healed, but leave with something very different from what they expected.
Winner of Best Design at the Dublin Fringe Festival, talented Irish theatremaker Dan Colley has created a perfect show for young and old to share, gorgeously formed around music, puppetry and live video, but also thoughtful and emotionally rich in its exploration of human nature.https://www.aaf.co.nz/event/very-old-man-with-enormous-wings