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March 26, 2010 • accidental death of an anarchist, can't pay? won't pay, dario fo, dario fo season, devious theatre

Devious Theatre’s Dario Fo Season

Pretty much all of my blogging activity over the past 8 months has taken place over at the Devious Theatre website as we worked on our Dario Fo Season.

Now that it’s over I will (a. return to this lonely neglected blog and (b. find something else to do with my time. Hopefully.

We’ve wrapped up the entire Dario Fo escapade with a huge feature blog that sums up the entire experience. It’s quite a read and a piece of archiving that will stand to us in future times. The entire project has been thus far the pinnacle of my wee theatre life. You can read a lot more about it right here.

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March 18, 2010 • can't pay? won't pay, can't pay? won't pay dario fo season, devious theatre

No Point Crying Over Spilt Olives…


I had intended to do a lot more updating of my blog through the production of Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! and well, I didn’t really. Much to my busy chagrin.

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Most of my blogging for the show was done on the Devious Theatre website and my own blog hasn’t really gotten much love in the process.

The show (and indeed our entire Dario Fo Season) finished on Sunday after 7 months of hard work from the entire Devious Theatre crew. We were delighted with the audiences, the feedback and the reviews, one of which was posted today. You can read it here. And that brings our excursion into the work of Dario Fo to a close.

It was a lot of fun and I’m going to miss it.

Here’s some pictures from the show. There’s literally gazillions of blog updates about the show over on DeviousTheatre.com so that’s definitely the place to go if you’d like to find out more.

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January 12, 2010 • can't pay? won't pay, dario fo, devious theatre, drio fo season, john street, kilkenny, march 2010, set theatre

Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!

Rocking into my first big theatrical project for 2010 and it’s the second part of Devious Theatre’s Dario Fo Season. This time it’s his 1974 comedy Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!

A wild farce about shoplifting, unemployment and standing up for yourself against government forces, it’s my second crack of the whip at directing a Dario Fo play after Accidental Death Of An Anarchist back in December. I was delighted with how that play was received, the audiences were more than healthy and we got some really lovely notices. So I’m hoping this one can trump it.

We’ve assembled another fantastic cast and crew and I couldn’t be happier with them unless they could do the get in in 10 minutes or had their lines off tomorrow. This time out the cast will consist of Angela Barrett, Ross Costigan, Hazel Fahy, Ken McGuire and Paul Young. They’ve already sat in for our first cast reading and recording which were followed by the start of rehearsals this week.

I’ll be blogging the rehearsal process over on Devioustheatre.com so if you’re interested in the progression of the play, that’s where I’ll be documenting it. As will the rest of the team in what we hope will be a good sustained campaign of bloggination.

Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! by Dario Fo will hit the Set Theatre, John Street, Kilkenny from 10th – 14th March 2010 at 8pm nightly. You can grab your tickets over on the website and the printed versions should be hitting Rollercoaster Records in the next week.

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