Wednesday 10th – Saturday 13th January 2024 @ 8.00pm
Nettle Horse by Little John Nee
Hundreds of dispossessed families travel west after winning a lottery orchestrated by an unscrupulous local councilor at the behest of Dandelion Ní Houlihan, a mysterious 103 year Bostonian benefactor seeking beatification. All roads lead to Gortnapuca where gangs of carpenters sleep ten to a tent in anticipation of a building frenzy, Mink Devine is selling edible beetles, and a small boy finds solace amidst the chaos by befriending a horse in a circus field.
Set in the near future, ‘Nettle Horse’ by award winning writer, performer and musician, Little John Nee is a transformative theatrical odyssey weaving storytelling, song, and satire that invites the audience to step into a parallel universe and witness the magic of their own imaginations in creating the future.
Little John Nee is an award-winning writer, performer and musician based in the west of Ireland. He has developed a unique style of musical storytelling theatre, simultaneously hilarious and heart-breaking, that has won him international recognition. His play ‘Sparkplug’ won an Irish Times Theatre Award for his sound design while the RTE radio version won a Special Mention Prize at the Prix Italia 2013. He has published a book of Haiku ‘The Apocalypse Came on a Friday’ and previously his ‘A Donegal Trilogy’ was published by An Grianán Theatre. He has released an album of songs from his theatre shows recorded with The Caledonia Highly strung Orchestra, ‘Songs from the Lough Swilly Delta’. Little John has been commissioned to write plays for Barabbas Theatre Company, Axis Ballymun, Scottish Touring Theatre Consortium, An Grianán Theatre, Earagail Arts Festival, Donegal Co. Council, Leitrim Co. Council, and Galway Arts Festival. A prolific creator of work for theatre, he was elected to Aosdána in recognition of his contribution to Irish culture.
“A masterpiece of story telling [about Rural Electric]” – The Guardian
“A mesmerising piece of theatre balanced somewhere between the stories of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and a zen meditation session. The evening made me feel as if I was a child again, enthralled by a magical story [about Sparkplug]” – Michael Harding, The Irish Times
“I don’t think I’ve seen anything this funny in years [about The Derry Boat]” – Brigid McLaughlin Sunday Independent.
Duration: 75 minutes *NO INTERVAL*
Tickets: €20, €18 concessions
*Booking fees apply.
