by Rose Rushe
SUZANNA Geraghty, writer and comedienne, returns this month to tour Ireland with her award winning show ‘Auditions, Zoe’s Auditions’ after serious success in the States. Over there this one-woman show sold out, earned ovations, and was chosen as the Audience Favourite out of 77 shows from 11 countries in New York at the UNITED SOLO festival in 2011.
Following this, Geraghty was selected to return to New York to feature in the Encore Group of Most Outstanding Shows at UNITED SOLO 2012. Limerick people can clock the Zoe comedy this Friday, August 23, in Friar’s Gate Kilmallock, 8pm before it moves east.
“‘Auditions, Zoe’s Auditions’ features loveable underdog Zoe, a backstage worker who dreams of landing an acting job. As she gets farther and farther from her dream job, Zoe might just be gettting closer to herself…”
Geraghty the artist has put the work in over years. Apparently she had longed to write her own show but is dyslexic. A book by Jacques Leqoc described his way for actors to create theatre, taught at his school in Paris and she went on to attend his Master Class Series for professionals. It was here where Suzanna Geraghty started to cultivate her inner clown called Zoe.
‘Auditons, Zoe’s Auditions’, influenced by Lecoq and her love of Stan Laurel, Giulietta Masina in ‘La Strada’, Chaplin and Beckett, “combines elements of farce, pathos, physical comedy and breaks the fourth wall” [between artist and audience]. Ours for one night only.
More news at Friar’s Gate: Playwright John Sheedy has a Theatre Artist Residency at the Kilmallock venue for 12 months, funded by the Arts Council and Limerick County Council. John is native of Ardpatrick and we know his work as a writer and director for CallBack theatre with partner Cora Fenton (seen in TV3’s ‘Deception’ most recently).
His first play, ‘Set in Stone’, was a potted history of Kilmallock over eight centuries and used multiple sites in the town for its wild expression. His next will premiere in Friar’s Gate in 2014.
