“So [the] play should grow in joyousness”

Running the Ending, UCD Humanities Institute

This collection of video clips is taken from the first full recordings of Robbie Blake’s ‘Running the ending’ filmed in and around the UCD Humanities Institute on 12 May 2019.

The Creative Process

Recording at MoLI, 30 April 2021

These photographs were taken by Zosia Kuczyńska between recording sessions for music by Robbie Blake for Jessie Keenan’s short film ‘So what is surfacing’ at the Museum of Literature Ireland on 30 April 2021.

Related Manuscript

Don't anticipate the ending

Brian Friel penned this note to self whilst writing Dancing at Lughnasa (1990).

Portrait: Zosia Kuczyńska

Zosia Kuczyńska is an academic and poet, specialising in the literary archives of playwright Brian Friel.

“If dancing is the alternative to language, has language been inadequate for these people? Has language failed these people? Has language betrayed these people?” – Brian Friel

The Creative Process

Robbie Blake's blue notebook, 7

In this page from Robbie Blake’s project notebooks, Robbie makes note of some of the safety measures required for a series of workshops at Dance House in August and September 2020.