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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 ​​

UNDERNEATH

By Pat Kinevane
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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.
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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
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★★★★ Sunday Business Post 
★★★★★​ Scotsman
★★★★★​ The Skinny
★★★★ Irish Times

​#FishambleUNDERNEATH

Read the Underneath 2022 show programme

Created by

Written & Performed by Pat Kinevane
Directed by Jim Culleton
Sound Design & Composition by Denis Clohessy
Costume Design by Catherine Condell
Choreography Advisor Emma O'Kane
Photo by Ger Blanch

Graphic Design by PUBLICIS DUBLIN
Co-Producer (Los Angeles) Georganne Aldrich Heller
Produced by Eva Scanlan

Underneath ​by Pat Kinevane

€7.00 - €15.00

Published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015


​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.


​WINNER: ADELAIDE FRINGE BEST THEATRE AWARD Adelaide Fringe Festival 2015

WINNER: SCOTSMAN FRINGE FIRST AWARD 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 


​‘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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Reviews

‘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
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‘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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Photographs by Patrick Redmond

Meet the Team

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​​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.
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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.
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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. 

Previous Dates

2022: Irish Tour
28 Sept: The Everyman, Cork
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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
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2014: Irish and International Touring
3rd – 6th Dec: The Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick, in partnership with Limerick City of Culture

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