ALSO For Roaring, a new experimental performance about sense and nonsense, will finally play to live audiences this month having been postponed due to COVID restrictions over one year ago.
The offbeat show comes to Belltable on Saturday 26 February and features performers Daniel Guinnane, Conor Kennedy-Burke and Johanne Webb who devised the project with director Róisín Stack.
Stack spoke about how the project started. ”The project started when we came across a nonsensical Dadaist play called The Gas Heart.
This spawned conversations around sense, nonsense and the structures of theatre itself. We realised that we wanted to make something that wasn’t concerned with story or resolution but with an overall concept that didn’t have to be logical or cohesive;’’ she said.
The result is an hour-long contemplative yet comedic performance – a kaleidoscope of scenes on themes of sense, potential, order and disorder.
The performance is very much in the world of the current internet age and draws on YouTube videos, TedX talks, artists such as Kenneth Goldsmith and absurdly mundane experiences from the lives of its creators.
Also For Roaring had a work in progress showing at Galway Theatre Festival 2019 before being developed further at MAKE 2019, a theatre residency run by Theatre Forum, Project Arts Centre, Dublin Fringe Festival and Cork Midsummer.
‘‘It’s a show for people who like having to make their own sense of things,’’ says Stack, ‘For people who don’t go to the theatre in search of story but who enjoy a bit of chaos, a bit of provocation. We took a risk by making theatre in a way we never had before, so we hope that audiences will take a risk in coming to see it.’’
Also For Roaring will be on Saturday 26 February. Tickets cost €18/€16.
Book tickets here: Also For Roaring – Lime Tree Theatre
