ARÁN & IM
by Manchán Magan
ARÁN & IM
Upcoming UK Tour 2024
Arán & Im is a theatrical performance/installation in which Manchán bakes sourdough bread for 70 minutes while offering insights into the wonders of the Irish language – exploring potent words of landscape, terms of intuition and insight, and the many phrases that bring to life the mysterious glory of our natural world.
It is a celebration of language, land and local Irish food, with freshly-baked traditional sourdough bread for the audience to slice and spread with butter they churn themselves from Irish cream.
Is taibhiú drámaíochta é Arán & Im ina mbácálann Manchán arán taois ghéir ar feadh 70 nóiméad fad is a thugann sé léargas ar iontaisí na Gaeilge – agus é ag ceiliúradh focail mhealltacha a bhaineann leis an tírdhreach, téarmaí i dtaca le hiomas agus léirstean, agus an iliomad nathanna a thugann beocht do chumhacht agus mistéir an tsaoil nádúrtha.
All International tours of Arán & Im have been supported by Culture Ireland and the Department of Foreign Affairs.
Originally produced in collaboration with the Abbey Theatre and with funding from Foras na Gaeilge.
Creative Team
Written and Performed by: Manchán Magan
Presented and Produced by: Once Off Productions
Generously Supported by: Culture Ireland
Design: Tom de Paor
Producers: Maura O'Keeffe & Sadhbh Barrett Coakley
Construction: Barry Rogerson
Costume: Hazel McCague
Funded by Culture Ireland
UK Tour 2024 Dates
4 October: Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff
10-11 October: Irish Cultural Centre Hammersmith, London
18 October - 5:30pm and 8:00pm: Liverpool Medical Institution (as part of Liverpool Irish Festival)
20 October: Tyneside Irish Centre, Newcastle (as part of Tyneside Irish Festival)
25-26 October: Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
30 October: An Lanntair, Stornoway
West Coast USA and Canada Tour 2023 Dates
28th September: Broadwater Theater Complex, Los Angeles
30th September: Broadwater Theater Complex, Los Angeles
1st October: Irish Cultural Center, Phoenix, Arizona
5th October: United Irish Cultural Centre, San Francisco
6th October: United Irish Cultural Centre, San Francisco
10th October: University of Montana, Missoula
14th October: Wheatgrass Books, Livingston
18th October: Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, Seattle
20th October: Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, Seattle
23rd October: Corrib Theatre / Historic Alberta House, Portland, Oregon
26th October: The Cultch Historic Theatre, Vancouver
USA & Canada Tour 2022 Dates
March March 12th: Carnegie Science Centre, Pittsburgh, PA
March 15th: TELUS World of Science, Edmonton, AB March 18th: St Louis Science Center, St Louis, MO March 20th: Tennessee Shakespeare Company, Memphis, TN April April 1st - 3rd: Irish Arts Centre, New York, NY April 5th: Irish American Heritage Museum, Albany, NY
April 7th: Irish Cultural Center, Canton, MA
April 8th: Boston College, Boston, MA (tickets available at the door)
April 13th: Buffalo Irish Center, Buffalo, NY
April 14th - 16th: Canada Ireland Foundation, Toronto, ON
April 20th: Zing Train, Ann Arbour, MI
April 21st: The Gaelic League, Detroit, MI
April 24th: Celtic Junction Arts Center, St Paul, MN
April 27th: Irish American Heritage Center, Chicago, IL
April 28th: Chicago Gaelic Park, Chicago, IL
April 30th: Celtic MKE, Milwaukee, WI
Presented in Association with: Irish Arts Center, New York & CIACLA. With thanks to Department of Foreign Affairs and the Irish Consulates in New York, Los Angeles & Vancouver.
