Fishamble in co-production with Temple Bar Cultural Trust Presents
Whereabouts
Directed by Jim Culleton
Ever wondered… what are they talking about at the next table… what sort of person tried on this shirt before me… is that woman his wife or his daughter?
Fishamble has taken to the streets of Temple Bar.
Fishamble has taken to the streets of Temple Bar. Indoor and outdoor locations such as a nightclub, an alleyway, a boutique and many more spring to life in a series of dramatic brief encounters. Choose the daytime or evening trail – or both – and immerse yourself in strange and wonderful stories that are played out in the heart of the city.
Whereabouts is a selection of short plays to entertain, provoke and surprise. Come and explore the streets of Temple Bar as you have never seen them before! All the plays in this season were selected from the hundreds sent in by writers to Fishamble following its Do You Have Something to Tell Me? call for submissions. The event was free but ticketed and each trail lasted approximately one hour.
WINNER Irish Times Special Judges’ Theatre Award
Reviews
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‘…quite riveting assembly of short site-specific plays…(performances) weave themselves into the fabric of the city – reality and fiction blur…Temple Bar becomes vivid and compelling… wonderfully bizarre, expertly directed…when it stops, you see the city in a different way: a place teeming with narratives if you just take the time to look. ’
The Irish Times -
‘Jim Culleton and Fishamble Theatre Company are to be praised for putting the promenading back into promenade theatre with Whereabouts…the audience (is) literally on its toes…the acting throughout is of a high standard… riveting… brilliant… this makes all of Temple Bar a stage and all the pedestrians players on it – one is left assessing everyone, never quite sure who is real’
Irish Independent -
‘There were moments that were extraordinary…there were also moments of well-handled social-realism…exciting for the way they blurred the division between what was theatre and what could have been just somebody on the street… well realized… what was special was the way it all worked together, the way it surprised and subverted. ’
Village
Cast
Charlie Bonner
Charlie has worked with most theatre companies in Ireland north and south for over 25 years including ‘Walkabout’ and Fishamble Shorts with Fishamble, and ‘Philadelphia Here I Come’, ‘Good Evening Mr. Collins’, ‘Monkey’, ‘Melonfarmer’, ‘Macbeth’, ‘Observatory’, ‘Living Quarters’, ‘The Shaughraun’, ‘Toupees & Snare Drums’ and ‘Portia Coughlan’ with the Abbey, and companies including the Gate and Lyric theatres, Prime Cut, Verdant Productions, Livin Dred, Pan Pan, Red Kettle, Corcadorca, Field Day and Second Age amongst others.
Film and television include Zoo, Maze, The Devil’s Doorway, Childer, Rebellion, Red Rock, Omagh, The Tudors, The Race, Starfish, Proof, Fair City and The Crush.
Productions
Caitríona Ní Mhurchú
Caitríona is an award-winning performer/writer/theatre maker. Most recently she played ‘C’ in Performance Corporation’s VR theatre show Emperor 101 for DTF 2.
She collaborated with choreographer Sibeal Davitt as performance director/dramaturg on Minseach for DFF 2021. She was commissioned by Aisling Ghéar to write on online play for 7-12 year olds; An Botún. Transmission – for her own company Little Wolf – played Abbey Theatre/ Peacock Stage DFF 2020.
Other recent work includes Nassim for DTF 2019 and the title role in Forever Yours Mary-Lou at the Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath. Favourite work includes Lippy, The Seagull, 16 Possible Glimpses, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, The Sit, Guaranteed and the 10th Anniversary Celebration of The Oak Tree by Tim Crouch at The Traverse. An Oireachtas award-winner, Caitríona has written extensively for children’s television and her children’s books are published by Cló Iar-Chonnachta/O’Brien Press. Her book Ó Lúibíní Lú was nominated for a Glen Dimplex Award. Her first radio play Momento Mori was a PJ O Connor award-winner. The Little Penpal won Gold in New York Radio Festivals for Best Writing. Gadhar a sound-story commissioned by RnaG 2019 was published in a compendium in 2020. Mise & Ise was comissioned by RTÉ 1 as a response to the pandemic.
Caitríona is a Story Line writer for Fair City, RTÉ.
Productions
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
Gavin Kostick
Gavin Kostick is a playwright, literary manager and independent dramaturg.
His works have been produced nationally and internationally. Favourite works for Fishamble include The Ash Fire, The Flesh Addict, The End of The Road and Invitation to a Journey (with CoisCeim and Crash Ensemble). The Leap is Gavin’s first play for children.
Further works include This is What We Sang for Kabosh, Fight Night, The Games People Play and At the Ford for Rise Productions and Gym Swim Party with Danielle Galligan in co-production with the O’Reilly Theatre. He wrote the libretto for the opera The Alma Fetish composed by Raymond Deane, performed at the National Concert Hall. As a performer he performed Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: Complete, a six hour show for Absolut Fringe, Dublin Theatre Festival and the London Festival of Literature at the Southbank.
Gavin is currently the literary manager of Fishamble: The New Play Company, a tutor in playwriting and dramaturgy in both The Lir Academy and Trinity College Dublin as well as being a core mentor on the Tenderfoot Transition Year programme for young writers at the Civic Theatre.
Particular favourite projects that Gavin has initiated and delivered with Fishamble include Show in a Bag (with Dublin Fringe and The Irish Theatre Institute), The New Play Clinic, The Dublin Fringe New Writing Award, Tiny Plays for Ireland and A Play for Ireland.
Both for Fishamble, and as an independent dramaturg, Gavin’s projects and works he has supported have gained significant national and international award recognition including amongst others Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, BBC Stewart Parker Trust, Zebbie Awards, Dublin Fringe Awards, Business to Arts, Olivier, Scotsman Fringe First, Herald Angel and Archangel and New York Critics’ Pick.
His own plays have also received similar national and international award recognition. Gavin has recently completed a new version of The Odyssey, supported by Kilkenny Arts Festival, ClassicsNow.
Productions
Day Performances
Dublin Noir by Colin Murphy
Mean Sweeps I by Shane Carr
My Brother is Disappearing by Anna Newell
The Other Woman by Tom Swift
Lament for Joseph by Jody O’Neill
Drapes by Belinda McKeon
Eclipsed I by Louise Lowe
Evening Performances
Bernard Opens Up by Jack Olohan
Mean Sweeps II by Shane Carr
Blind Spot by John Grogan
Eclipsed II by Louise Lowe
Twenty Two by John Cronin
Eggshell by Jacqueline Strawbridge