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“FOUND” by Aideen Wylde at Cork Midsummer Festival and Clonmel Junction Festival

BrokenCrow and The Everyman in association with Clonmel Junction Arts Festival and Cork Midsummer Festival present
FOUND by Aideen Wylde
THU 22–SUN 25 JUN
Preview THU 22 JUN
Live at Graffiti Theatre

CAST

Aideen Wylde, Aidan Crowe, Cathal Ryan, Fiona Lucia McGarry and Siobhán Callaghan

CREATIVE TEAM

Written by Aideen Wylde
Directed by Julie Kelleher
Dramaturg Deirdre Dwyer
Scenic and Lighting Designer Brian Mitchell
Costumes and Props Medb Lambert
Composer Kevin McNamara
Sound Designer Tyler Kieffer
Producer Hugh Farrell
Production Manager Hanan Sheedy

BrokenCrow and The Everyman bring FOUND, Aideen Wylde’s new play, to Graffiti Theatre as part of Cork Midsummer Festival.

Bridget Jones meets Indiana Jones, with talking fish, in a joy-filled night of theatre, traditional storytelling and music directed by Julie Kelleher.

Eileen is lost. According to everyone else, her life is as beige as the back of a hand, so she hides in her headphones and lives quietly through other people’s stories. Auntie Breege has been laying on the pressure too – to get a husband. Any husband. So, when the mysterious disappearance of a dolphin, a celebrity folklorist and the quest to find the Almanac of Old Lost Land fall into her lap, Eileen is set on the ultimate voyage of self-discovery… whether she likes it or not!

Inspired by writer and performer Aideen Wylde’s deep connection to the province of Newfoundland, Canada – her ‘backwards genealogy’ – FOUND is a wild, and weirdly wonderful mishmash of traditions, from here and there, that make the Irish of both places ‘a people divided by time’.

BrokenCrow is a collective of six theatre artists – writers, actors, designers and directors – based in Cork, Waterford and Kilkenny, who work together to create high quality original work. Since inception, they have staged fifteen productions including previous works for Cork Midsummer Festival, Dark Kingdom and Blackwater Babble.

Supported by the Arts Council, with further support from The Everyman, Clonmel Junction Arts Festival, Cork Midsummer Festival and Garter Lane Arts Centre. https://everymancork.com/events/found-by-aideen-wylde/

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Unseen Plays: The Abbey Theatre Podcast

https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/unseen-plays/

Fiona was delighted to join the cast of The Image by Lady Gregory and The Words Upon the Window Pane by W.B. Yeats, directed by Sarah Jane Scaife. A series of recordings of Irish plays which are rarely produced and explores the reasons why some may have been overlooked by history. Also starring:

Bryan Burroughs: Costello

Declan Conlon: Hosty

Fionnuala Gygax: Stage Directions

Marcus Lamb: Thomas Coppinger

Fiona Lucia McGarry: Mrs. Coppinger & composed the melody of the song

Máire Ní Ghráinne: Peggy

Ian O’Reilly: Mannion

Don Wycherley: Malachi

The Words Upon the Window Pane:

William Butler Yeats: Writer

Sarah Jane Scaife: Director

Bryan Burroughs: Cornelius Patterson

Declan Conlon: Abraham Johnson

Fionnuala Gygax: Miss McKenna

Fiona Lucia McGarry: Stage Directions

Máire Ní Ghráinne: Mr. Mallett

Helen Norton: Mrs. Henderson

Ian O’Reilly: John Corbett

Don Wycherley: Dr. Trench

  • Curator: Professor Christopher Morash
  • Audio Recording: Windmill Lane Recording Studios

#UnseenPlays

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‘Decibel’ short film

Had so much fun on this shoot with the amazingly talented cast and crew. Director Phil Ronayne was an absolute pleasure to work with aswell as my great co-stars Mark McCabe and Emmet Byrne. Delighted to finally share it amidst the real sci-fi that is our current, collective existence. Hope you enjoy!

 

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Bloomsday performance at The Olivier Cornet Gallery

Delighted to perform part of Molly Bloom’s final soliloquy as part of Bloomsday celebrations this year at the ‘Drawing on Joyce’ exhibition featuring work by Paula Meehan, Nickie Hayden, Eoin Mac Lochlainn, Maser and Robert Russell at The Olivier Cornet Gallery. Loved sharing the process through which I facilitated the writing of some Haiku poetry with SAOL Project which you’ll find printed on Nickie Hayden’s beautiful copper plates. All proceeds from the sale of these being kindly donated by Nickie to the SAOL Project.

With artist Nickie Hayden’s fantastic Haiku story wheel and printed copper plates.
Haiku poem dedicated to Nora Barnacle. All proceeds of the sale going to SAOL Project.