THE February weekend in which six selected theatre practitioners develop professional skills further within HatchLK’s intensive environment had closed with readings (adult only) for the public.
No. 69 O’Connell Street is the site for works in progress assigned to each candidate, a 10 minute work in political theatre and their own winning submission to HatchLK when participants were sought. Most recent exercises included the film ‘American Revolutionary’ and discussion; a workshop under the banner ‘Does Politics Work for Me?’ and group facilitation to theme of ‘Building our Capacity to Engage’.
There was a look forward also to the Limerick Spring Festival of Politics and Ideas, celebrating the role of the citizen in local life, April 17 to 19. The festival’s Jennifer Moroney Ward is one of HatchLK’s mentors and says: ”Theatre has the potential to deal with some of the major social, environmental, economic and political issues of our time in a way that can add to much to our understanding of ‘how we got here’.”
