by Gary Owen
Presented by Conflicted Theatre and supported by Cork Midsummer Festival
Performed by Sonya O’ Donoghue and directed by Gavin McEntee
June 19th – 23rd 2019 @ 5.45pm
Effie is setting her future ablaze with a Molotov cocktail of youth, beauty, vodka, ketamine and rage! Each day she deploys a deadly combo of brutal and delicate cunning to get what she needs and what she really needs is to ‘top up’ from the night before and the night before that. She bounds from hungover to absolutely hammered again and again with the true determination and dedication that can only be admired.
BTW, Effie is going to save us all.
Our sacrificial deer who just couldn’t give a fuck.
Iphigenia in Splott tells the story of a young woman who has no use for hopes or dreams… unless they belong to us.
Conflicted Theatre use Gary Owen’s lauded script to transpose their bold storytelling into an honest-to-goodness theatre for the first time in quite a while.
This powerful one-woman show screams of decaying urban atmospheres and provides Conflicted with the perfect launchpad for a show that will be loud and brash and violent and tender.
CONFLICTED THEATRE
Conflicted Theatre have been devising, adapting, writing and stealing work since 2010. The core of the company is Gavin McEntee & Evan Lordan, but we work with an unofficial ensemble of collaborators time and time again, who helped us to create a kaleidoscopic and eclectic body of work.
Have a look – www.conflictedtheatre.com
It’s tough to nail down exactly what we do, because we are yet to try the same thing twice. We wrote After Jekyll (2010); used a former government building to construct an immersive promenade story with 18-35 (2012); adapted The Scarlet Letter (2013) and performed it at City Hall; We Make Gods (2014) was an entirely devised modern myth; we created a private dining experience, stealing another writer’s words with Come Dine with Charles Mee (2015); and in Neon Western (2017), we sneaked our audience into an epic cinematic warehouse rave.
Do try and keep up – www.facebook.com/conflictedtheatre/
With Iphigenia in Splott we are challenging ourselves with something entirely different; we’re going to tackle a beautifully constructed script. Don’t presume that this means we have settled down into a life of cozy traditional theatre… anything but.
This production is made possible by the Cork Arts Theatre and the Arts Council Emerging Artists Programme.
“Conflicted have been around the block (literally), making work throughout Cork City over the past 9 years and when we decided that our next new challenge was to produce an electric, one-woman show we couldn’t imagine a more behoving first-time partner for us than the Cork Arts Theatre, a true theatre institution here in Cork. ” – CONFLICTED THEATRE
Tickets: €15, €12 conc.
Administration fee on phone and online bookings.
Note for Online Bookings: Once your booking is complete, please either print your tickets at home and bring them with you, or present them on your phone at the box office on arrival and they will print them for you.
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