Underneath

$45 premium
($36 members)

$35 general
($28 members)

Preview Performances (October 14-17): $25

Irish Arts Center
in association with Georganne Aldrich Heller
presents

Fishamble: The New Play Company
Underneath

October 14 – November 1

Tuesday, October 27 | 8 pm
Wednesday – Saturday | 8 pm
Sunday | 3 pm
Please note there will be no show on Thursday, October 22, or Saturday, October 31

Written and Performed by
Pat Kinevane

Directed by 
Jim Culleton

Award-winning writer and performer Pat Kinevane and company Fishamble return to Irish Arts Center with Underneath, following the runaway international success of Forgotten (spring 2010) and Silent (fall 2012).

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?

A woman lies dead in her freshly dug grave in the Tumbledown cemetery, Cobh, County Cork. Here she tells the story of her life: her happy childhood and the mother who loved Cleopatra; being struck by lightning and then missing school for a year; her night shifts in hotels washing and mending laundry; up to her ultimate and untimely demise in a north Dublin flat; all via a series of unlikely encounters and heartbreaking betrayals.

This stunning new play is a blackly comic, richly 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.

Produced by Marketa Dowling
Composed by Denis Clohessy
Costume by Catherine Condell
Choreography Adviser Emma O’Kane
Dramaturg Gavin Kostick

Running Time: 90 minutes

Fishamble is funded by the Arts Council, Dublin City Council and Culture Ireland

ARTIST TALK | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18

Following the 3 pm performance, join us for an artist talk back with Pat Kinevane and Jim Culleton, moderated by Dana Edell, PhD. Executive Director, SPARK.

Silent (fall 2012)
"A passionate one-man show...Mr. Kinevane interprets Valentino's highly theatrical screen presence to stunning effect...[he] doesn't just demand [the audience's] attention, he commands it. And that difference is what makes Mr. Kinevane an artist of the theater." – Ben Brantley, The New York Times

Forgotten (spring 2010)
“The monologues are beautifully written and vivid, what makes this show uniquely memorable is Kinevane’s raw, over-the-top, compassionate performance.” – The New Yorker

Directing New Plays 
with Fishamble’s Artistic Director Jim Culleton, featuring writer and performer Pat Kinevane

Saturday, October 17 | 1:30 pm-5 pm

Over the course of a half day, artistic director of Fishamble: The New Play Company Jim Culleton will explore the role of the director, focusing on new plays. Through a mixture of theatre exercises, discussion and text analysis, Culleton will look at how the director works with actors and playwrights to create a piece of theatre which engages as powerfully as possible with an audience. The main play explored will be Underneath by Pat Kinevane, who will join the masterclass for a discussion about writing and performing the play.

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