New play from Kinevane and Fishamble premieres next month

'Before' is a Fishamble new play with much music, set in Clerys of Dublin, on the very day this iconic department store shuts - for good. Pontius is inside, trying to choose a gift for his estranged daughter, whom he hasn’t seen for almost 20 years.  He will meet her in an hour.  This father’s journey is both beautiful and strange, from the isolation of his midlands home, to the madness of O’Connell Street.  Some folk are impossible to buy for…
 
In 2006, Fishamble: The New Play Company produced Pat Kinevane’ first solo play, Forgotten and together they started a remarkable journey which would see them create an outstanding trilogy of work which has already been critically acclaimed both in Ireland and across the world. Forgotten was followed in 2011 by a second play, Silent (which won the team an Olivier award) and by Underneath in 2014, all three written and performed by Pat Kinevane and directed by Jim Culleton. 
Now the team has reunited to bring this new work to the stage. Once again produced by Fishamble, written and performed by Pat Kinevane and directed by Jim Culleton, Before will premiere next month, presented in association with the Strollers Touring Network and will include Visual Carlow, Source Arts Centre Tipperary, Watergate Theatre Kilkenny, Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo, Siamsa Tire Tralee, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Linenhall Arts Centre Castlebar, Draíocht, Blanchardstown, Belltable Limerick and Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge.

 

Fishamble: The New Play Company
presents the world premiere of 
BEFORE 
A new play with much music by Pat Kinevane
Directed by Jim Culleton
Premiering November 2018

 
2018 TOUR DATES
7 November, Visual, Carlow
9 November, Source Arts Centre, Thurles
13 November, Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny
15 November, Hawk's Well Theatre, Sligo
17 November, Siamsa Tíre, Tralee
19 November, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan
21 November, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar
23 - 24 November, Draíocht, Blanchardstown
5 - 6 December, Belltable, Limerick
8 December, Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge
Before was commissioned by Fishamble and has been in development with the support of the Arts Council, National Theatre Studio (London), Pavilion Theatre, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, and The Strollers Touring Network. 
 
 
Creative team:
Written & Performed by Pat Kinevane
Directed by Jim Culleton
Composed by Denis Clohessy
Costume styled by Catherine Condell
Choreographed by Emma O’Kane
Music performed by RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Conducted by Cathal Synnott
Photography by Ger Blanch
Stage Managers Tara Doolan & Ger Blanch
Dramaturgy by Gavin Kostick Produced by Eva Scanlan