I’ve just posted a new blog about our final preparations leading into our upcoming production of Stags and Hens. You can find it here over on DeviousTheatre.com
I’ll post something a little bit more detailed leading into next week. Right now, everything is busy, busy, busy and it’s very exciting. By the by, the play runs in The Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny from July 21st – 25th. But don’t read about it here, everything you’d need to know and more is over on the website.
The Blood Brothers Featuring Peter Taylor (Eddie Murphy)
Bernie and Eddy (Ciara Donegan and Ken McGuire)
Robbie and Billy (Myself and Stephen Colfer)
Linda (Roisin O’Reilly)
Dave (John Doran)
Carol and Maureen (Lynsey Moran and Mairead Kiernan)
Kav and Frances (Geoff Warner Clayton and Maria Murray)The 70’s tastic main poster for our upcoming production of Willy Russell’s Stags and Hens has gone online over at DeviousTheatre.com
Expertly designed by Mr. Paddy Dunne, it features the titular stag and hen parties of the play in their own little toilet cubicle settings. Which aptly enough is where they spend most of the play anyway! It’s got a lovely, and slightly tacky, 1970’s disco feel which is exactly where the play is coming from. The promotion campaign is currently revving up for July 21st when the play will take to the stage of the Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny until July 25th.
Paddy has written a blog talking us through the poster and it can be read in all it’s glory over here.
The rehearsals are coming along great and there’s also some pretty nifty rehearsal photos over on the site as taken by Messrs McGuire and Galster.
At the weekend we launched the 2009 programme for The Devious Theatre Company with a wee session and meet and greet in The Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny. Kevin Mooney made the announcement that our main production for this year would be a production of Willy Russell’s STAGS AND HENS, which he will be taking the directing reins on.
This is one that I’m really amped up about doing. The play is just an actor’s playground and Kev has put together a really diverse ensemble cast of which I am delighted to be part of.
The play is a very sharp comedy about the social mores of a bunch of working class Liverpudlians in 1978. It all takes place in the ladies and gents bathrooms of a dingy nightclub where both the stag and hen parties of the same wedding have ended up. And from there, things take some very funny, dark and emotional twists and turns along the way. It’s a fantastically well written play, definitely the best we’ve worked on so far. Over the years it has been marred a little by successions of dodgy student productions which tend to play up the booze and debauchery instead of the story and character but we’re intent on keeping the story to the fore. And it’s a damn good story.
Rehearsals started this week. Lots of acting rust to shake off. And the Liverpool accent is a bastard. I sound like one of the Chuckle Brothers at the moment.
All updates on Stags and Hens are going to be hitting the Devious Theatre website as we have ’em.
Also at the launch we announced our involvement in Shakespeare In The House and nicely asked people for funding by launching our ‘Friends Of’ program.
More of which can be found over on the website. I’ll write further about Shakespeare In The House as our programme comes together for it.
