WINNER Adelaide Fringe Best Theatre Award, Adelaide Fringe Festival 2015
WINNER Scotsman Fringe First, Edinburgh Festival 2015 WINNER Stage Raw Best Solo Performer Award, Los Angeles FORBES' BEST THEATER ON BROADWAY AND BEYOND LIST CRITICS’ CHOICE, Los Angeles Times |
UNDERNEATHBy Pat Kinevane
Sticks and stones didn’t break Her bones, but words and pointing crushed Her. Is Beauty really only skin deep? Does Ugliness hide somewhere deeper? Following the runaway international success of Forgotten and Silent, Fishamble presents Pat Kinevane’s third solo play, Underneath, directed by Jim Culleton. This stunning new play is a blackly comic, rich and vivid tale of a life lived in secret, a testament to the people who live on the fringes, under the nose of everyday life. It explores the surface, and what lies underneath. ‘Like Olivier’s legendary Hamlet, this is one of those rare performances that will be talked about for decades to come… exciting, hilarious, harrowing and heart breaking… A devastatingly brilliant piece of theatre.’★★★★★ Examiner.com ★★★★ Sunday Business Post ★★★★★ Scotsman ★★★★★ The Skinny ★★★★ Irish Times #FishambleUNDERNEATH |
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‘EXTRAORDINARY… sit back and enjoy.’
Ben Brantley, New York Times ‘BRLLIANT… striking…excellent…almost a masterpiece’ ★★★★ Irish Times ‘CRITIC’S CHOICE… RIVETING… finely tuned direction… Psychological insight, compassion and darkly comic wit’ – Los Angeles Times ‘a charming and engaging ninety minutes…Kinevane is a virtuoso performer…a delightful experience.’ Irish Independent ‘skillfully crafted…fabulously choreographed…impeccable sound and lighting…visually exciting’ Sunday Times ‘MESMERIZING… guaranteed to open your eyes to your own life as well as the world around you.’ – Broadway World |
‘intensely physical performance…(Kinevane’s) most powerful work yet…beautifully presented’
★★★★ Sunday Business Post ‘extraordinary…stunning…ninety of the most perfect minutes you’ll spend’ ★★★★★ Scotsman ‘sheer brilliance of this tour de force’ ★★★★★ The Skinny ‘Like Olivier’s legendary Hamlet, this is one of those rare performances that will be talked about for decades to come… exciting, hilarious, harrowing and heart breaking… A devastatingly brilliant piece of theatre.’ ★★★★★ Examiner.com |
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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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Denis Clohessy
Sound Designer |
Denis Clohessy has previously worked with Fishamble, including the productions The Pride of Parnell Street, Silent, Underneath, Before, The Alternative (Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Soundscape in 2019, together with The Examination for Brokentalkers and In Our Veins for Bitter Like a Lemon/Abbey/Dublin Port Company), Spinning, Mainstream and Strandline. He has also produced work for theatre and dance with The Abbey Theatre, The Gate Theatre, Rough Magic, Corn Exchange, Junk Ensemble and many others. He won the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Design Sound in 2011 for Rough Magic’s Sodome, My Love, he was a nominee in 2015 (for Junk Ensemble’s ‘It Folds), was an associate artist with the Abbey in 2008 and was a participant on Rough Magic’s ADVANCE programme in 2012. His composition work for Film and Television includes the films Older than Ireland (Snack box Films), The Irish Pub (Atom Films), His and Hers (Venom Film), The Land of the Enlightened (Savage Film), In View (Underground Cinema), The Reluctant Revolutionary (Underground Films), and the television series Limits of Liberty (South Wind Blows) performed by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.
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Aldrich Heller Co-Producer (Los Angeles Tour) |
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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2025
6 March: Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny 2022: Irish Tour 28 Sept: The Everyman, Cork 2019: Irish and International Touring 17 Apr: Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar 13 Jun: Dundee Rep Theatre, Dundee, Scotland, supported by Culture Ireland 13 Sept: Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire 2018: Irish and International Touring 8th March - 1st April: Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles as part of the Fishamble/Kinevane Trilogy in association with Georganne Aldrich Heller and supported by Culture Ireland 12th April: Civic Theatre, Tallaght as part of the Fishamble/Kinevane Trilogy 10th - 12th May: Belltable, Limerick as part of the Fishamble/Kinevane Trilogy 17th May: Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire 15th June: Ramor, Virginia as part of the Fishamble/Kinevane Trilogy 3rd July: Clonmel Junction Festival, Clonmel as part of the Fishamble/Kinevane Trilogy 7th July: Cambridge Junction Festival, U.K., supported by Culture Ireland 15th September: Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny as part of the Fishamble/Kinevane Trilogy 22nd September: Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland as part of the Fishamble/Kinevane Trilogy and supported by Culture Ireland 29th September: Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda as part of the Fishamble/Kinevane Trilogy 29th November: Warwick Arts Centre, U.K., supported by Culture Ireland 2017: Irish and International Touring 23rd - 24th March: Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, supported by Culture Ireland 31st March, 5th, 8th, 10th, 13th April: Peacock Theatre, Dublin as part of the Fishamble/Kinevane Trilogy 31st August & 1st September Crystal Palace Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand 7th - 10th September- Papa Hou Theatre at the YMCA, Christchurch, New Zealand 2016: Ireland and International Touring 13th February: Belltable, Limerick 23rd February – 13th March: Adelaide Fringe, presented by Arts Projects Australia, and supported by Culture Ireland as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme 7th April: Solstice Arts Centre, Navan 22nd April: Theatre Royal, Waterford 12th May: White Horse, Cork 20th May: Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda 25th May: The North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford, and supported by Culture Ireland as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme 28th May: The Town Hall, Cavan 11th June: Draíocht, Blanchardstown 7th July: Paisley Arts Centre, Supported by Culture Ireland as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme 9th July: Dundee Rep Theatre, Supported by Culture Ireland as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme 10th September: GB Shaw Theatre, Visual Carlow 27th September: The MAC, Belfast |
13th – 30th October: The Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles, in association with Georganne Aldrich Heller, and supported by Culture Ireland as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme
22nd Nov – 17th Dec: Soho Theatre, London, in association with Georganne Aldrich Heller, and supported by Culture Ireland as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme 2015: Ireland and International Touring 5th – 6th February: Siamsa Tíre, Tralee 12th February: Theatre Royal, Waterford 14th February: Draíocht, Blanchardstown 20th – 21st February: Civic Theatre, Tallaght 27th February: Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire 4th – 8th March: West Cork fit Up Festival 13th March: Phizzfest, Glasnevin Cemetary Chapel in association with Glasnevin Trust 15th March: Nenagh Arts Centre 19th March: Backstage Theatre, Longford 21st March: Ramor Theatre, Virginia 2nd April: Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray 9th April: Cork Opera House 15th April: Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge 17 April: Éigse Michael Hartnett Festival, Newcastle West 23rd April: Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo 30th April: The New Garage Theatre, Monaghan 15th – 16th May: axis, Ballymun 23rd May: Áras Éanna, Inis Oírr 27th May: Clonmel Junction Festival 29th May: Listowel Writers’ Week 12th June: The Mill Theatre, Dundrum 23rd June: Town Hall Theatre, Galway 2nd July: Ballina Arts Centre 7th – 30th August: Dance Base, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, supported by Culture Ireland 20th September: Shorelines Festival, Portumna 22nd September: Clifden Arts Festival 8th October: The Dock, Carrick on Shannon 14th October – 1st November: Irish Arts Centrer, New York, supported by Culture Ireland 12th – 13th November: Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire 19th – 20th November: The Everyman, Cork as part of Fishamble Residency 25th November: glór, Ennis 27th November: The Source, Thurles 2014: Irish and International Touring 3rd – 6th Dec: The Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick, in partnership with Limerick City of Culture |
