‘Drop everything. Book now…captivating, moving, and – yes – even unforgettable.’ The Irish Times
‘incredibly moving and unequivocally beautiful…’ The Scotsman ‘a piece of theatre not easily forgotten’ The Sunday Tribune ‘raw, over-the-top, compassionate performance’ The New Yorker |
FORGOTTENBy Pat Kinevane
‘Has no one a skitter o’ dignity left?’ A unique collage of Kabuki dance and Irish storytelling, Forgotten has been a huge international success for Fishamble during the past decade. It is a captivating portrayal of four elderly characters living in retirement homes around Ireland. Pat Kinevane’s haunting performance brings to life these sometimes forgotten voices of society. CRITICS’ CHOICE, Los Angeles Times #FishambleForgotten |
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Written & Performed by Pat Kinevane
Directed by Jim Culleton Costume Design by Catherine Condell Produced by Eva Scanlan |
Forgotten/Silent ​by Pat Kinevane
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Published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2011 Includes 2 plays by Pat Kinevane. FORGOTTEN A unique collage of Kabuki dance and Irish storytelling, Forgotten has been a huge international success for Fishamble during the past decade. It is a captivating portrayal of four elderly characters living in retirement homes around Ireland.  Pat Kinevane’s haunting performance brings to life these sometimes forgotten voices of society. CRITICS’ CHOICE, Los Angeles Times Drop everything. Book now…captivating, moving, and – yes – even unforgettable.’ - The Irish Times SILENT Silent is the touching and challenging story of homeless McGoldrig, who once had splendid things. But he has lost it all – including his mind. He now dives into the wonderful wounds of his past through the romantic world of Rudolph Valentino. WINNER: Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre OLIVIER AWARD 2016 WINNER: SCOTSMAN FRINGE FIRST and THE HERALD ANGEL Edinburgh Festival 2011 WINNER: ARGUS ANGEL, Brighton Festival 2012 Click here for the production pages of Silent and Forgotten. |
Reviews
‘Drop everything. Book now…captivating, moving, and – yes – even unforgettable.’
The Irish Times
‘incredibly moving and unequivocally beautiful…’
The Scotsman
‘a piece of theatre not easily forgotten’
The Sunday Tribune
‘raw, over-the-top, compassionate performance’
The New Yorker
The Irish Times
‘incredibly moving and unequivocally beautiful…’
The Scotsman
‘a piece of theatre not easily forgotten’
The Sunday Tribune
‘raw, over-the-top, compassionate performance’
The New Yorker
Meet the Team
Pat Kinevane
Writer & Performer |
Pat Kinevane is a native of Cobh, Co. Cork. He has worked as an actor in theatre, film, television and radio for 33 years. In 2016 Pat won a Laurence Olivier Award in London for his Outstanding Achievement as an Actor and a Writer this year. This prestigious award was shared with Fishamble and Jim Culleton who have been integral to the Production and Direction of Pat’s four Solo Shows. As a writer he completed his first full length play The Nun’s Wood in 1997 which won a BBC Stewart Parker Trust Award and was produced by Fishamble. Fishamble then produced his second play The Plains of Enna (Dublin Theatre Festival 1999). Pat wrote The Death of Herod for Mysteries 2000 at the SFX. In 2008 his piece Evangeline Elsewhere premiered in New York in the First Irish Festival.
Pat has been touring since 2006 with his four solo pieces Forgotten (Irish Times Theatre Award Nominee) Silent (Scotsman Fringe First, Herald Angel and Brighton Argus Angel Award) Underneath (Scotsman Fringe First and Adelaide Fringe Awards), and Before (Herald Archangel Award winner) all produced by Fishamble. Pat is deeply thankful to Fishamble for all of their work and endless support. |
Jim Culleton
Director |
Jim Culleton is the Artistic Director of Fishamble: The New Play Company, for which he has directed productions on tour throughout Ireland, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US. His productions for Fishamble have won Olivier, The Stage, Scotsman Fringe First, and Irish Times Best Director awards. Jim has also directed for the Abbey, the Gaiety, the Belgrade, 7:84 Scotland, Project, Amharclann de hÍde, Tinderbox, Passion Machine, the Ark, Second Age, Dundee Rep, CoisCéim/Crash Ensemble/GIAF, Frontline Defenders, Amnesty International, Little Museum of Dublin, Fighting Words, Soho Theatre, Scripts Festival, and Baptiste Programme. He has directed audio plays for Audible, BBC, RTÉ Radio 1, and RTÉ lyric fm. He has directed for Vessel and APA (Australia), TNL (Canada), Solas Nua, Mosaic, and Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Odyssey (LA), Origin, Irish Arts Center, New Dramatists, and 59E59 (Off-Broadway), as well as for Trafalgar Theatre Productions on the West End, and IAC/Symphony Space on Broadway. Jim has taught for NYU, NUI, GSA, Uversity, the Lir, Villanova, Notre Dame, UM, UMD, JNU, and TCD.
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Georgeanne
Aldrich Heller Co-Producer (UK and US Touring) |
Georganne Aldrich Heller is the President of Irish Theatre and Film. The company is a not for profit, devoted to presenting the work of Irish playwrights in New York, Ireland, London and Los Angeles. Her credits include the US premiere of Fishamble’s ‘Underneath’ by Pat Kinevane, ‘Remembrance’ with Frances Sternhagen and Milo O'Shea, Pat Kinevane’s ‘Silent’ at Soho Theatre in London, which recently won the Olivier Award, NY Times Critic’s Pick ‘The Last Days of Cleopatra,’ Critic's Choice ‘Who's your Daddy’ by Johnny O’Callaghan, and the US premieres of Fishamble’s ‘Silent’ and ‘Forgotten’ both by Pat Kinevane. Other credits include the Award-winning, site-specific show ‘Ladies and Gents,’ performed in the Toilets in Central Park, Marie Jones ‘Night In November,’ Conor Lovett in Beckett’s ‘Molloy’ and ‘Red Roses and Petrol’ the Feature film starring Malcolm McDowell. She was one of the founders of the Women in Film, and served as the cultural director for the borough of Manhattan in NYC. She is on the Board of the Irish Arts Center in New York, a trustee of the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, and a member of the International Woman’s Forum.
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Previous Performances
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2024 Irish and European Touring
16 October Hawk's Well Theatre, Sligo 2022 Irish and European Touring 1 September ESSE Conference 2022, Mainz, Germany 26 September The Everyman, Cork 2019: Irish and International Touring 20 - 24 Jan: Fit-Up Theatre Festival, Blackwater Valley, Cork 4 Apr: THEATRE ROYAL, Waterford 11 Jun: DUNDEE REP THEATRE, Dundee, Scotland, supported by Culture Ireland 11 Sept: PAVILION THEATRE, Dún Laoghaire 2018: Irish and International Touring Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles Civic Theatre, Tallaght Belltable, Limerick Dundee Rep Theatre, Scotland Paisley Arts Centre, Scotland Listowel Writers' Week, Kerry Ramor Theatre, Virginia Clonmel Junction Festival, Clonmel Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda 2017: Irish and International Touring Town Hall Theatre, Galway The Peacock, Abbey, Dublin Hawk's Well Theatre, Sligo Millbank Theatre Millbank Theatre An Grianan 2016: Irish and International Touring Nenagh Arts Centre, Tipperary Belltable, Limerick White Horse, Cork Draoícht, Blanchardstown Feile na Bealtaine, Dingle Town Hall Theatre, Galway Droichead Arts Center, Drogheda Tron, Glasgow Lemon Tree Theatre, Aberdeen Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock 2015: Irish and International Touring Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire Backstage, Longford Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray Oulu, Finland The Everyman, Cork 2014: Irish and International Touring Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles The Source Arts Centre, Thurles Clywd Theatr, Mold Cavan Theatre Festival, Cavan Birr Theatre and Arts Centre, Offaly 2013: Irish and International TouringThe Dock The Dock, Leitrim Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire Linenhall, Castlebar Brighton Dome, Brighton Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin axi, Ballymun White Memorial Theatre, Clonmel Cambridge Junction, Cambridge Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds Mercury Theatre, Colchester Theatre Royal, Waterford Town Hall Theatre, Galway Everyman, Cork The Grainstore at Ballymaloe 2012: Irish and International Touring Town Hall Theatre, Galway Community Hall, Cork The Mill, Dundrum Hawk's Well Theatre, Sligo |
2011: Irish and International Touring
An Glór, Ennis Siamsa Tíre, Tralee Tron, Glasgow St. Angela's College, Sligo Áras Éanna, Inis Oírr Ballina Arts Centre Odyssey Theater, Hollywood 2010: Irish and International Touring Civic Theatre, Tallaght Solstice Arts Centre, Navan Boston Center for the Arts, Boston Irish Arts Centre, New York City Source Theater, Washington, D.C. Sofia, Bulgaria Smoylan, Bulgaria Plovdiv, Bulgaria Lovech, Bulgaria Trabzon, Turkey Moat Theatre, Naas GB Shaw Theatre, Carlow Everyman Palace Theatre, Cork West Cork Fit-Up Festival, Cork Pillar Room, Mater Hospital, Dublin 2009: Irish and International Touring Shetler Studios, New York St Mary's Theatre, Clonakilty Siamsa Tire, Tralee Civic Theatre, Tallaght Colaise Choilm, Ballincollig St Louis High School, Rathmines Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire Hawk's Well Theatre, Sligo Holy Trinity Hall, Dunfanaghy Balor Arts Centre, Ballybofey Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge Dance House, Dublin Lókal International Theatre Festival, Iceland The Gresham Hotel, Dublin 2008: Irish and International Touring The Mill Theatre, Dundrum Mermaid, Bray Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris The Helix, Dublin Draiocht, Blanchardstown Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin Prague Sibiu, Romania Civic Theatre, Tallaght Dance Base, Edinburgh GAA Playhouse, Cork Unity Theatre, Liverpool Belltable, Limerick 2007: Irish and International Touring Tinahely Arts Centre,Wicklow Dancehouse, Dublin Dublin Castle, Dublin Dunamaise Arts Centre, Laois 2006: Irish and International Touring Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Dublin An Táin, Dundalk Station House Hotel, Galway The Dock, Leitrim Millbank Theatre, Rush Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray |
