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News and Showdates · September 18, 2023

MANUS HALLIGAN ON TOUR IN LOST LEAR

Manus Halligan will be on tour with Lost Lear from October to December 2nd.

Manus received an Irish Times Theatre Award Best Supporting Actor nomination for his role of Liam.

A moving and darkly comic remix 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, being cast as Cordelia, must find a way to speak his piece from within the limited role he’s given.

Using puppetry, projection and live video effects, the audience are landed in Joy’s world as layers of her past and present, fiction and reality, overlap and distort.

‘Lost Lear’ is a thought provoking meditation on theatre, artifice and the possibility of communicating across the chasms between us.

Reviews + Awards

Irish Times Theatre Awards nominee:
– “Best New Play”
– “Best Supporting Actor”
– “Best Video Design”

“Devastating stuff, deftly done…Colley is a theatre maker of remarkable imagination and insight” 
– The Stage ★★★★★

. https://dancolley.com/project/lost-lear/

Riverbank Arts Centre //  20-21st October

The Everyman, Cork // 24th and 25th October 

Westival, Westport // 27th and 28th October

The Town Hall Theatre, Galway // 8th November

Project Arts Centre // 10th and 11th of November

The Hawkswell, Sligo // 15th November

The Ramor, Cavan // 18th November

Mermaid Arts Centre // 21st and 22nd November 

Draíocht Arts Centre // 25th November

The Civic Theatre, Tallaght // 28th and 29th November

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