True Believers
Written by Joseph O’Connor Directed by Jim Culleton
Through a series of interconnecting monologues, a mother and son remember the break-up of a marriage in the 1970’s and share their haunted memories of its effect on the people involved.
Loosely based on the short story collection of the same name, True Believers is an exploration of loss and growing up in an Irish family.
Cast
Enda Oates
Enda Oates has a long association with Fishamble going back to 1999 when he appeared in Joseph O’Connor’s True Believers at Andrew Lane and its subsequent Irish tour and its run at The Tricycle London. Other Fishamble productions include, The Plains of Enna (Pat Kinevane), Whereabouts and Pilgrims in the Park by Jim O’Hanlon. Enda is delighted to be returning in Fishamble’s 30th year with this show.
At the Abbey Theatre, credits include, Curse of the Starving Class, The Corsican Brothers, Big Maggie, Colours, The Devil’s Disciple, St. Joan, A Child’s Christmas in Wales and Blinded by the Light amongst others. He played Prospero in Corcadorca’s open air production of The Tempest for Cork’s Year of Culture in 2006 and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice for Second Age.
Other theatre: Philadelphia Here I Come (Lyric/Gaeity Theatre), The Field (Gaeity), Jacques Brel is Alive and Well (Noel Pearson Productions/Gate Theatre), Uncle Vanya (Field Day) The Plough and The Stars (Young Vic), Studs/Buddleia (Passion Machine Project Arts/ Donmar Warehouse), Juno and the Paycock (Gate Theatre/Broadway), The Ha’penny Bridge (Point Theatre) , The Country Boy, The Chastitute (Ed. Farrell Prod) Further than the Furthest Thing (Hatch Theatre , Project Arts).
In 2015 Enda won Best Actor IFTA for his role as Pete Ferguson in the RTÉ production Fair City.
Radio credits include, The Hit List, written and directed by John Boorman, Charlois, Ma (Elaine Murphy), Goodnight Irene (Jenifer Johnson) and The Thriller Series, Grave Danger amongst others.
Film and Television: Secret Scripture (Voltage Productions), Striking Out (Blinder Films), Glenroe, Upwardly Mobile (RTE), Tri Sceal, Wrecking the Rising (TG4), Moone Boy (Sky 1), Raw, Rebellion 2 (RTE), Val Falvey, Superhero (Grand Pictures), The Bailout (TV3), Stardust (Media Films), Ordinary Decent Criminal (Littlebird), An Everlasting Piece (Dreamworks), Eden (Samson Films) and Damo & Ivor (Granno Productions).
Productions
Creative Team
Jim Culleton
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.
Productions
Paul Keogan
Paul’s theatre credits include: Tiny Plays for Ireland, Strandline and True Believers (Fishamble, Dublin); The Visiting Hour, The Snapper, Hamlet, (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Sadie, Shirley Valentine, Double Cross, (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Happy Days, Blood in the Dirt, Postcards from The Ledge, The Walworth Farce (Landmark, Dublin); Walls and Windows, The Great Hunger, Last Orders at the Dockside, Citysong, On Raftery’s Hill (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Love, Love, Love (Lyric Hammersmith); I Think We Are Alone (Frantic Assembly, UK Tour); Lady Windermere’s Fan (Classic Spring, London); A Streetcar Named Desire, Twelfth Night and The Hudsucker Proxy (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse); Cyprus Avenue (Abbey, Dublin/Royal Court/Public, NYC); Harvest (Royal Court); The Caretaker (Bristol Old Vic); Incantata, Trad, The Matchbox (Galway International); Far Away, Sacrifice at Easter (Corcadorca, Cork); The Gaul (Hull Truck Theatre); Blue/Orange, Tribes (Crucible, Sheffield), Novecento (Trafalgar Studios, London).
Opera and Dance: 20 Shots of Opera (Irish National Opera Film); Elektra and The Marriage of Figaro (Irish National Opera); The Return of Ulysses (Opera Collective, Ireland); Falstaff (Vienna Staatsoper); Dialogues des Carmelites (Grange Park Opera UK); Powder Her Face (Teatro Arriaga, Bilbao); The Fairy Queen (RIAM Dublin); Maria de Buenos Aires (Cork Opera House); Wake (Nationale Reisopera, Netherlands); Lost (Ballet Ireland); Sama & Flight (Rambert, London); No Man’s Land (English National Ballet); Cassandra, Hansel and Gretel (Royal Ballet, London).