THE LOCAL
Asylum Productions
THE LOCAL
by Asylum Productions and Kilkenny Arts Festival produced by Once Off Productions with The Watergate Theatre
By Medb Lambert, Clare Monnelly & Emma O'Grady
Directed by Dónal Gallagher
There’s 50p on the pool table, Sinéad is ripping up the Pope, Féile’s going to get messy and Ireland is on the brink of cataclysmic social change...
The Local is an immersive soap opera. It’s 22 August 1992. The pub is the epicentre of Irish culture. Ireland is a drunken teenager.
We’re about to grow up and leave home and take responsibility for ourselves. The craic is exponential and the only way is up. Little did we know we were heading for a crash. We should have seen it coming.
Following on from the success of the award-winning Big Chapel X, Asylum Productions return with their unique production style bringing local actors, community groups and professional performers and artists together.
Funded by the Arts Council.
Crew
Writer / Co-Artistic Director Medb Lambert
Writer Clare Monnelly
Writer / Performer Emma O’Grady
Director / Co-Artistic Director Donal Gallagher
Co- Director Janice de Broithe
Movement Director Cindy Cummings
Sound Designer Cormac O’Connor
Senior Producer Maura O’Keeffe
Line Producer Sadhbh Barrett Coakley
Production Manager Pete Jordan
Stage Manager Zoey Reynolds
Assistant Stage Manager Delia Lowery
Assistant Production Manager Francesca de Buyl
Intern Assistant Airector Sarah Joan K
Production Assistant Andrew Crowley
Intern Production Assistant Nell Snyder
Costume Aoife Lyons
Production Assistant Lina Lambert
Hair Val Sherlock
Make-up Michael Browne
Dates
10-19th August 2023: Kilkenny Arts Festival, at Sheridan’s Ennisnag
Photos by Dylan Vaughan
Performers: Joanne Bracken, Fern Kealy, Shannon O’Doherty, James Quigley, Patrick McDonald, Kyle English, Eanna Grogan, Gillian McCarthy, Geraldine Rowantree, Derek Dooley, Susie Lamb, Michael Somers, Dónal Forristal, Neil Sheehy, Emma O’Grady, John Lennon, Natasha Murray, Jeffrey Gormly, Claudia Morawski, Michael Morris, Orla McCabe, Annie Conway, and JuJu Perche.