ON TRIUMPH & TRAUMA, BY LUKE MURPHY
Thurs 26 May | 8pm
With Luke Murphy, Eric Jackson Bradley, Zach McNally and Lily Ockwell.
A provocative and powerful new work emerging in the wake of the centenary of the 1916 Rising.
With a hundred years behind us, we are caught with the heroes and demons of our past and the fraught uncertainty of our future. On Triumph and Trauma is at once a poetic dedication to a turning point in the nation’s history and a rigorous examination of what Irish identity, politics and nationalism means today. A bold and visceral work for four performers.
On Triumph and Trauma conveys a morphing landscape of creation and destruction as the ideas of nationalism, sacrifice, violence and memory are drawn and erased under starkly different lights. Drawing upon a wealth of investigative sources, including witness accounts from the Bureau of Military History, transcripts from the Dail and the writings of some of Ireland’s most accomplished scholars, the work paints and analyses the quiet day to day humanity that drove a country into an endless waltz of triumph and tragedy.
With dynamic choreography, a haunting soundscape and a constantly morphing design, On Triumph and Trauma draws the audience into an unpredictable journey through the complexities of our past towards the precipice of our future.
