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Off Plan - A Play on the response around community-making in Ireland today

Friday, March 13, 2020

Off Plan - A Play on the response around community-making in Ireland today

Off Plan 1 - Fri 13 March @ 6.30pm

For more information please see https://thisispopbaby.com/shows/off-plan-1/

Off Plan is a red-hot artistic response around community-making in Ireland today. In a series of work-in-progress double bills, we get a first look at sparks of incendiary ideas around the changing city, gender, migration, direct provision and aging.

The Last Adult Children of the Good Old Stock
Complex Roots with Veronica Dyas

D’you know who the Tuggers were, ever rummage through their wares and buy from them? D’you know what a Cheeky Charlie is? No, it’s not that! We used to sell them. D’you know where Corporation Buildings were? We used to live there.

Street Trading, hunger, coins for the meter, sheets of brown paper, tenements and dodgy loans, neighbours from heaven, and the odd one from hell. This is Dublin’s North Inner City recounted by the Women who are actually from there. Really now, they’re not pretending. This is not a show about memory – this is about lived experience, taking the action and telling the truth(s). We want you to enjoy yourselves, relax, ye can have a laugh like, it’s funny. There’ll be leaps of theatrical magic, a lot of talking and oh yeah, making stew.

Complex Roots is a group of five women in their 50’s from Dublin’s North Inner City who work weekly through drama. The core reasons to make work together is the shared lived experiences as Irish working class women from Dublin, where generational poverty and structural inequality continues to impact our lives today. The group is facilitated by artist Veronica Dyas.

With support from The Abbey Theatre 5×5, DCC Arts Department and Irish Theatre Institute.

Starts: 13 March 2020 18:30
Ends: 13 March 2020 20:00
Location: Project Arts Theatre, Temple Bar