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Someone Else

– A new play in development

Beginning with the concept of the understudy, the show explores someone stepping into your role to do what you do. To have an understudy is both a comfort and threat – what if their performance trumps yours? We start to think about other roles in our lives when someone steps in to replace you: open relationships, uncertain living situations and the workplace.


'Someone Else' is about contemporary society, human value and holding on to what is irreplaceable. The work focuses on often overlooked relationships: connections with strangers, work colleagues and promiscuous hookups. It fights against a culture of disposability and disregard. It reaches audiences with levity, optimism and humour. We see that there is no way to make it through life without interdependence; without many iterations of someone else.

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Stuckness

– Performance art films exploring creative block

How does it feel to be stuck? Is there a way to experience it without feeling worthless? Can the body in motion help?

Stuckness is a two-year collaboration with University of the Arts London that strives to reframe creative block. Through workshops, performances and films, we intend to offer a new vernacular for students to discuss this frustrating and disorientating state.

We see being stuck in your work not as something to turn away from, but rather to be understood, challenged and moved through.

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HARDCARE

– Artistic enquiry into non-normative care experiences

HARDCARE explores the fringes of care; that which is kept hidden from view or seen as deviant. It rejects care as soft and passive, and acknowledges the hardship involved in some acts of keeping well. HARDCARE proposes new language and aesthetics for care.

The socially-engaged work, devised by David McGovern, makes visible people, acts and places of care that sit outside the norm. HARDCARE acknowledges the tenacity involved in living with chronic or undiagnosed illnesses, the potential care provided by sex workers, and the ability for any one of us to find care through unofficial sources. HARDCARE is a radical reimagining of how we view looking after each other and ourselves.

Visit hardcare.net to learn more. The work is ongoing, and was recently awarded funding by Arts Council of Ireland.

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