“Dig back to move forward more clearly.”

Jessie Keenan notes, 5

In this extract from Jessie Keenan’s project notes, Jessie maps out a version of how she visualises the different stages of collaboration in the life of a live performance work.

The Creative Process

Rehearsal, 3 September 2020

These photographs were taken by Zosia Kuczyńska during project workshops and rehearsals at Dance House on 3 September 2020.

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Exhibition map, 31 August 2021

A visual guide to the exhibition and how items related to each other, made by Zosia Kuczyńska on 31 August 2021 as part of the exhibition design process.

Lámhscríbhinn Ghaolmhar

Structure the ages.

In Friel’s play Dancing at Lughnasa (1990), the radio is an important theatrical device. Apart from connecting the Mundy sisters to an emerging modernity, it also functions as an almost supernatural presence as it makes sudden musical intrusions that disturb the domestic scene.

Lámhscríbhinn Ghaolmhar

Michael's monologue

This draft of Michael’s opening/closing monologue from Dancing at Lughnasa (1990) features some of the ways in which Friel would annotate his notes.

“It felt very intimate to have a view into the way in which he was thinking about things.” – Robbie Blake